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Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition
On 26 March, Professor Omid Safi, Director of Duke University’s Islamic Studies Centre, took audiences through a mystical journey in his talk entitled, Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition at the Aga Khan Centre.
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STUDENT VOICES: a Poem on Learning from Students from Around the World
Anum Hossain is a third-year GPISH student. In our first Student Voices blog of 2022, she shares a poem inspired by hearing the stories of her diverse cohort, “Show Me Your Hometown”.
Ismaili Festivals Book Launches in Series of Popular Events
Ismaili Festivals: Stories of Celebration by Dr Shiraz Kabani, the first title in the IIS’s Living Ismaili Traditions series, has launched in recent weeks at a series of popular events.
Soul’s Imaginal Motion in Abū Ya‘qūb al-Sijistānī’s (fl. 10th CE) Kitāb al-Maqālīd and Risālah al-Bāhirah
This lecture will focus on what Abū Ya‘qūb al-Sijistānī (d.ca. 361 AH/972 CE) presents in Kitāb al-Maqālīd and Risālah al-Bāhirah on imaginal motion as the domain of Soul and Soul World. Just as much as Soul’s movement is determining how natural time and natural motion arise, Soul’s activities shape and condition what is- what is existing and coming into existence.
Documentary Screening and Discussion on Climate Anxiety
The documentary focuses on climate anxiety due to natural hazards, such as flooding in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. This documentary presents their side of the story, as a starting point for discussions around climate anxiety.
Command and Creation: A Shi'i Cosmological Treatise - Book Launch
Join us for this special launch event for Command and Creation: A Shi’i Cosmological Treatise, with author Dr Daryoush Mohammad Poor in lively conversation with Dr Toby Mayer, both Senior Research Associates at The Institute of Ismaili Studies.
A Neo-Fatimid Treasury of Books: Arabic Manuscripts among the Alawi Bohras of Baroda - Live Lecture
This paper focuses on the Alawi Bohra community in Vadodara, Gujarat, and their khizānat al-kutub, or treasury of books. As Shi’i Isma’ilis, the Alawi Bohras consider themselves heirs of the Fāṭimid Imamate (909–1171).
A Fatimid Text on the Necessity of the Imamate: The Book of Interim Times and Planetary Conjunctions (Kitāb al-Fatarāt wa-l-qirānāt)
This lecture will discuss the contents and context of The Book of Interim Times and Planetary Conjunctions as well as the state of current scholarship on it.
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.
Pre-Existence: a Myth and its Implications in Imami-Shiʿi Thought
The notion that events bearing far-reaching consequences for the human condition took place prior to the creation of the world and of man has been a central theme in the Islamic literary tradition. This lecture seeks to demonstrate how the raw materials of this notion in Imami-Shiʿi thought were addressed, creatively interpreted and elaborated upon by thinkers of two periods: the Buwayhid (945-1055 CE) and Safavid (1501-1722 CE).