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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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  • 25 Nov 2020
  • Online
  • Talks and Lectures

The Revival of Twelver Shi’i Tafsīr in Early Modern and Modern Times: Three Case Studies

The lecture will present three case studies in order to illustrate the evolution of Imami Qur’anic exegesis in the early modern and modern eras, in its coherence and diversity.

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  • 01 Sep - 29 Dec 2020
  • Aga Khan Centre
  • Open day

International Training Programme for Waezeen

The Institute of Ismaili Studies is pleased to announce the launch of recruitment for the International Training Programme for Waezeen for the year 2020-2022.

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  • 17 Dec - 18 Dec 2019
  • Aga Khan Centre
  • Conference

Esoteric Cultures of Scripture Conference

The aim of this two-day workshop that brings together some of the foremost scholars in their fields is not to align itself with any given school or approach, but simply to investigate the complex interplay of scriptures with the esoteric intellectual cultures and spiritualities that they shape.

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  • 10 Oct - 11 Oct 2019
  • The House of Scientists
  • Talks and Lectures

Intellectual traditions of Ismailis and Sufis In Memory of W.A. Ivanow (1886-1970)

The Institute of Ismaili Studies and Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Oriental Manuscripts host conference in St Petersburg

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  • 03 Oct 2019
  • Aga Khan Centre
  • Talks and Lectures

The Hybrid Ontology of Early Mughal Painting

In this lecture, Dr Gonzalez will present key points from her book “Aesthetic Hybridity in Mughal Painting, 1526-1658” (Ashgate, November 2015).

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  • 22 Aug 2019
  • Aga Khan Centre
  • Talks and Lectures

Moral Approaches to Bio Medical Issues

This session will shed light on why and how we need to think about moral approaches to biomedical issues such as abortion and euthanasia.

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  • 28 May 2019
  • Aga Khan Centre
  • Talks and Lectures

Kalam fi mahd al-khayr and the Plotiniana Arabica

In this lecture, Professor Richard Taylor proposes to reconceptualise the Kalām fī maḥḍ al-khayr as a work conceived as a supplement to the (Plotinian) “Theology of Aristotle” in which portions of Proclus are used to explicate further the cosmological metaphysics of “Aristotle”.

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  • 13 May 2019
  • Aga Khan Centre
  • Book launch

Salvation and Destiny in Islam: Sketching Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī’s Views on the qaḍāʾ wa’l-qadar Debate

In this talk, Dr Maria De Cillis will highlight al-Kirmānī’s theologically distinctive interpretation of the question of qaḍāʾ wa’l-qadar (divine decree and destiny) question.

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  • 01 May 2019
  • Aga Khan Centre
  • Book launch

The First Aga Khan: Memoirs of the 46th Ismaili Imam

The First Aga Khan: Memoirs of the 46th Ismaili Imam was published as part of the IIS’s Diamond Jubilee publications in honour of His Highness the Aga Khan IV.

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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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