Events

  • 26 May 2022
  • Aga Khan Centre
  • Book launch

Book launch: “Patterns of Wisdom in Safavid Iran”

Join us for this special event celebrating the scholarship and academic achievements of our late esteemed colleague, Dr Janis Esots, and to mark the launch of his latest publication, Patterns of Wisdom is Safavid Iran: The Philosophical School of Isfahan and the Gnostic of Shiraz.

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  • 03 Oct 2019
  • Aga Khan Centre
  • Talks and Lectures

The Hybrid Ontology of Early Mughal Painting

In this lecture, Dr Gonzalez will present key points from her book “Aesthetic Hybridity in Mughal Painting, 1526-1658” (Ashgate, November 2015).

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  • 22 Aug 2019
  • Aga Khan Centre
  • Talks and Lectures

Moral Approaches to Bio Medical Issues

This session will shed light on why and how we need to think about moral approaches to biomedical issues such as abortion and euthanasia.

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  • 28 May 2019
  • Aga Khan Centre
  • Talks and Lectures

Kalam fi mahd al-khayr and the Plotiniana Arabica

In this lecture, Professor Richard Taylor proposes to reconceptualise the Kalām fī maḥḍ al-khayr as a work conceived as a supplement to the (Plotinian) “Theology of Aristotle” in which portions of Proclus are used to explicate further the cosmological metaphysics of “Aristotle”.

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  • 13 May 2019
  • Aga Khan Centre
  • Book launch

Salvation and Destiny in Islam: Sketching Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī’s Views on the qaḍāʾ wa’l-qadar Debate

In this talk, Dr Maria De Cillis will highlight al-Kirmānī’s theologically distinctive interpretation of the question of qaḍāʾ wa’l-qadar (divine decree and destiny) question.

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  • 01 May 2019
  • Aga Khan Centre
  • Book launch

The First Aga Khan: Memoirs of the 46th Ismaili Imam

The First Aga Khan: Memoirs of the 46th Ismaili Imam was published as part of the IIS’s Diamond Jubilee publications in honour of His Highness the Aga Khan IV.

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  • 29 Apr 2019
  • Aga Khan Centre
  • Talks and Lectures

Annemarie Schimmel Memorial Lecture

The lecture will be delivered by the most recent recipient of the Annemarie Schimmel fellowship, Mohammed Rustom, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Carleton University and Library of Arabic Literature Senior Fellow at NYU Abu Dhabi.

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  • 13 Apr 2019
  • Ismaili Centre, London
  • Graduation

STEP Graduation Ceremony 2019

Join us for the Secondary Teachers Education Programme (STEP) graduation ceremony.

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  • 03 Oct - 05 Oct 2018
  • United Kingdom

The Renaissance of Shiʿi Islam in the 15th–17th Centuries: Facets of Thought and Practice

An international conference that examines one of the most intriguing periods in the history of Shi'i Islam and brings together some of the leading scholars in the field.

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  • 21 May 2018
  • The Institute of Ismaili Studies Aga Khan Centre
  • Talks and Lectures

Reflections on Contemporary Sufism: Exploring Past Trends and Past Tendencies

This talk will highlight two key dynamics within Sufism today that emerged in developing an introductory text to Sufism and then a volume on contemporary Sufism.

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  • 08 May 2018
  • The Institute of Ismaili Studies Aga Khan Centre
  • Talks and Lectures

Fatimid Rejection of ghuluww. Outlines of the Kitāb al-Kashf attributed to Jaʿfar b. Mansūr al-Yaman

This lecture will present some ambiguous passages of the text in which traces of early Shi‘i ideas can still be detected despite their Fatimid rewriting.

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