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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  • 04 Apr - 08 Apr 2016
  • The Institute of Ismaili Studies
  • Conference

Introduction to Arabic Manuscript Studies Workshop

The primary focus of the workshop is to provide an overview of writing supports and structures of Islamic manuscripts, bookbinding and decoration, scripts, as well as composition and transmission of texts.

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  • 17 Feb 2016
  • The Institute of Ismaili Studies
  • Talks and Lectures

Islamic Humanism

This lecture will discuss how developing themes found in the Qur’an and culled from Greek and Jewish, Indian and other sources, Muslim thinkers forged a compelling humanism, precious in the classical age and deserving recovery and reconstruction in our own.

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  • 10 Dec 2015
  • The Institute of Ismaili Studies
  • Book launch

Whose Reading is it Anyway? Words, the Qur’an, and the Problem of Meaning

When people come to read the Qur’an, there is an interaction between what the words of the Qur’an say and what the person reading the text already thinks and believes before reading it. This lecture marks the launch of The Meaning of the Word: Lexicology and Qur’anic Exegesis (2015)

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  • 10 Nov 2015
  • The Institute of Ismaili Studies
  • Talks and Lectures

The Qur’an in English Verse

To this end we will review three Qur’anic suras that embody our approach: Sūrat al-Fātiḥa (Q. 1), Sūrat Yā Sīn (Q. 36) and Sūrat al-Raḥmān (Q. 55).

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  • 15 Sep 2015
  • Russian Federation
  • Conference

Conference: Iranian Studies of the Societas Iranologica Europaea

Two of the Institute of Ismaili Studies research associates will be presenting papers at the eight conference of The Iranian Studies of the Societas Iranologica Europaea.

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  • 04 Aug 2015
  • Indonesia
  • Conference

International Qur'anic Studies Association

Dr Alessandro Cancian presents his paper entitled ‘Shi'i Sufism and Mystical Exegesis in the Light of Recent Research’ at the International Qur'anic Studies Association.

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  • 25 Jun 2015
  • London
  • Talks and Lectures

The Qur'anic Counter-Discourse

This lecture will introduce to a Quranic singular literary form: the ‘counter discourse’, i.e. the discourse of the Quran’s opponents mentioned in the Quran itself.

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  • 26 Mar 2015
  • London
  • Talks and Lectures

Public Lecture and Book Launch: Words of Power: Hurufi Teachings between Shiʿism and Sufism in Medieval Islam

The lecture will focus on the mystical and messianic movement that came to be known under the name of Hurufiyya, meaning ‘letterists’, which was founded in Iran in the second half of the 8th AH/14th CE century by Fadl Allah Astarabadi (d. 796 AH/1394 CE).

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  • 08 Dec 2014
  • London
  • Talks and Lectures

Printing and Translating the Qur'an: Controversies in late Ottoman and modern Turkey

the launch of M. Brett Wilson’s book entitled Translating the Qur’an in an Age of Nationalism: Print, Culture and Modern Islam in Turkey (Oxford University Press, 2014).

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  • 06 Jun 2014
  • London
  • Talks and Lectures

Live webcast by Professor Abbas Hamdani

A DARP Occasional Lecture - “The Imam Speaks about His Shi‘a”; Epistle 48 of the Rasaʾil Ikhwan al-Safaʾ by Professor Abbas Hamdani (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

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