This short film features IIS Director Emeritus Dr Farhad Daftary on the topic of myths perpetuated about Ismailis and how modern scholarship is able to challenge them due to manuscripts held in our collection.

Dr Farhad Daftary introduces the history of the assassin legends and discusses the inspiration behind the Assassin’s Creed franchise.

Professor Elizabeth Alexandrin will focuses on Kitāb al-Maqālīd and Risālah al-Bāhirah: imaginal motion as the domain of Soul and Soul World.

The prophet has a major metaphysical function. This is a fundamental thesis of Avicenna’s prophetology, and one of the main theses that will be explored in this lecture by Dr Meryem Sebti (CNRS, Paris).