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  • 23 Oct - 24 Oct 2023
  • Aga Khan Centre and online
  • Conference

Rethinking Texts and their Contexts in Muslim Societies

This interdisciplinary conference will explore the diverse trajectories and contexts of texts in Muslim societies from oral cultures to the digital age.

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"Prophet Muhammad Preaching", Folio from a Maqtal-i Al-i Rasul of Lami'i Chelebi, late 16th c. Image credit: Met Museum.
  • 03 Feb 2022
  • Aga Khan Centre
  • Talks and Lectures

The Metaphysical Dimension of the Prophet in Avicenna’s Thought

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.

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Shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf, Iraq.
  • 16 Dec 2021
  • Online
  • Talks and Lectures

Pilgrimages of the Heart: Remote Ziyara and the Articulation of Interiority in Twelver Shi'i Devotion - Online Lecture

The practice of remote ziyāra, whereby a devotee visits an imām’s tomb not through physical pilgrimage but by reciting a pilgrimage litany, appears in the earliest Twelver literature on ziyāra.

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  • 06 Dec - 09 Dec 2021
  • Online
  • Conference

Fatimid Cosmopolitanism: History, Material Culture, Politics, and Religion

This international conference aims to progress the field of Fatimid studies, encouraging participation from established and early career scholars specialising in Fatimid lands across Bilad al-Sham, Egypt, Ifriqiya, Sicily, and other areas across the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and the Indian Ocean.

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  • 08 Nov 2021
  • Aga Khan Centre
  • Book launch

An Anthology of Qur’anic Commentaries, Volume II: On Women

Join us for the launch of this long-awaited and highly anticipated volume "On Women", the second in An Anthology of Qur'anic Commentaries.

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  • 28 Oct 2021
  • Oline
  • Talks and Lectures

Ismaili revolts in their wider historical context (9th-10th c. CE)

The ninth and tenth centuries CE are famous for the series of Ismāʿīlī revolts that broke out across rural areas in Iraq, Syria, North Africa, and elsewhere.

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  • 30 Sep 2021
  • Online
  • Talks and Lectures

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).

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  • 17 Jun 2021
  • Online
  • Talks and Lectures

Scholars, Apostasy and States in Medieval Islam: Historiographical and Juridical Issues

This lecture will present how the authors of literary sources of history constructed their narratives of scholarly apostasy in accordance with their own sectarian and political affiliations - and the juridical procedure at play.

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  • 22 Apr 2021
  • Online

Agents of the Hidden Imam: Forging Twelver Shi'ism (850-950 CE)

To understand the formation of Twelver Shiʿism, we must understand the ways in which the authority of the traditional four agents and other community leaders was contested.

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  • 17 Mar 2021
  • Online
  • Talks and Lectures

The Druzes, from Ismaili Esotericism to the Formation of a Doctrinal School of Law

The Druze dogma was developed in Cairo during the reign of the sixth Fatimid caliph al-Ḥākim. The newly established doctrine parted from the mainstream Fatimid doctrine.

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  • 24 Feb - 27 Feb 2021
  • Online
  • Conference

Islamic Traditions in 'Greater Khurāsān’: Ismailis, Sufis and Sunnis

The goal of this international conference is to explore a variety of manifestations of Islamic culture over a vast geographical area situated in the easternmost part of the Islamic world.

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