Events

  • 18 Oct 2022
  • Aga Khan Centre and online
  • Book launch

Book launch: "Texts, Scribes and Transmission: Manuscript Cultures of the Ismaili Communities and Beyond"

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  • 29 Apr 2019
  • Aga Khan Centre
  • Talks and Lectures

Annemarie Schimmel Memorial Lecture

The lecture will be delivered by the most recent recipient of the Annemarie Schimmel fellowship, Mohammed Rustom, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Carleton University and Library of Arabic Literature Senior Fellow at NYU Abu Dhabi.

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  • 13 Apr 2019
  • Ismaili Centre, London
  • Graduation

STEP Graduation Ceremony 2019

Join us for the Secondary Teachers Education Programme (STEP) graduation ceremony.

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  • 03 Oct - 05 Oct 2018
  • United Kingdom

The Renaissance of Shiʿi Islam in the 15th–17th Centuries: Facets of Thought and Practice

An international conference that examines one of the most intriguing periods in the history of Shi'i Islam and brings together some of the leading scholars in the field.

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  • 21 May 2018
  • The Institute of Ismaili Studies Aga Khan Centre
  • Talks and Lectures

Reflections on Contemporary Sufism: Exploring Past Trends and Past Tendencies

This talk will highlight two key dynamics within Sufism today that emerged in developing an introductory text to Sufism and then a volume on contemporary Sufism.

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  • 08 May 2018
  • The Institute of Ismaili Studies Aga Khan Centre
  • Talks and Lectures

Fatimid Rejection of ghuluww. Outlines of the Kitāb al-Kashf attributed to Jaʿfar b. Mansūr al-Yaman

This lecture will present some ambiguous passages of the text in which traces of early Shi‘i ideas can still be detected despite their Fatimid rewriting.

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  • 07 Apr 2018
  • Webcast

STEP Graduation Ceremony 2018 webcast

Join us for the live webcast of the proceedings of the Graduation of the Secondary Teacher Education Programme 2018, which will take place at The Ismaili Centre, London here.

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  • 11 Dec - 11 Dec 2017
  • Aga Khan Centre
  • Talks and Lectures

Approaching Religious Texts in Early Islam: The Sanaa Qur’an Palimpsest as Example

The round table brings together five scholars of the Qur’an and early Islamic documents on the occasion of the publication of Asma Hilali’s The Sanaa Palimpsest.

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  • 08 Nov 2017
  • The Institute of Ismaili Studies
  • Talks and Lectures

The Impact of Greek Neoplatonism on Arabic Philosophy: Plotinus’ Concept of the Universal Intellect and Soul

This lecture focuses on the Arabic adaptation of the influential treatise On the Immortality of the Soul by the Greek Neoplatonism philosopher Plotinus (d. 270) and its impact on Arabic-Islamic Philosophy.

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  • 12 Oct - 13 Oct 2017
  • The Institute of Ismaili Studies
  • Conference

Before the Printed Word: Texts, Scribes and Transmission

Before the Printed Word: Texts, Scribes and Transmission is a Symposium on the manuscript collections housed at the Institute of Ismaili Studies.

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  • 09 Oct 2017
  • The Institute of Ismaili Studies
  • Talks and Lectures

A Baroque Jesuit’s Encounter with the Qur’an: The Translation and Commentary of Ignazio Lomellini (1622)

The Arabic scholarship of Ignazio Lomellini is largely unknown, even to Arabists and historians studying the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). In 1622 this Italian priest produced a translation of the Qur’an with accompanying commentary that has remained unstudied in a Genoan library for almost two centuries.

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