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Shainool Jiwa charts the Fatimids’ expansion, the reasons behind their ultimate fall by the hand of Saladin, and the legacy that continues with the living Ismaili communities today.

Dr Soumen Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor of History at Presidency University in Kolkata, India. His research interests and publications are in the fields of religious and intellectual history of modern South Asia, with a particular focus on their global entanglements.

On 31 July, Dr Wafi Momin conducted a session entitled “Muslim World Between Modernity and Revivalism: Challenges and Opportunities”.

On March 9th, Professor Azim Nanji spoke to a mixed audience of Sixth Form students (17-year-olds) and their parents at the Berkhamsted Collegiate School on Muslim contributions to society and the common heritage of the Abrahamic religions, providing a perspective on how this shared history could help us understand and speak about Islam in the 21st century. This presentation was the first in the newly inaugurated seminar series organized by the school’s Philosophy Society.

The Department of Graduate Studies held its annual Career Pathways Seminar on 15 December, 2007. The seminar provided an opportunity for first and second year students of the Graduate Programme in Islamic Studies and Humanities (GPISH) as well as recent graduates to acquaint themselves with various career options available to them upon completion of their studies.

The eighth volume published in this pioneering series initiated by the IIS in 2009; published collaboratively with Oxford University Press (OUP) is now available.