Events

  • 22 Jul 2022
  • Aga Khan Centre and Online (Zoom)
  • Conference

Mu’tazilism and the Qur’an Conference

This conference will focus on the influence of Mu`tazilism on all aspects of the Qur’an, its status, interpretation, and relationship to the Prophet. The speakers will address Mu`tazilite thought and the influence it had on Islamic theology in other schools.

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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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  • 15 Jun 2017
  • The Institute of Ismaili Studies
  • Talks and Lectures

Pluralism and Perennialism: A Historical Investigation of Two Key Concepts

Approaches to the plurality of religions vary from exclusivist monism to all-inclusive universalism. Mark Sedgwick will examine these approaches from a historical perspective.

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  • 31 May 2017
  • The Institute of Ismaili Studies
  • Talks and Lectures

Creation and Artifice: The Metaphysics of Primary and Secondary Causality

Prof. Taylor will explicate the notion of primary and secondary causality as it appears in various forms in philosophical thinkers of the Greek, Arabic and Latin traditions, including Plotinus, Proclus, the Plotiniana Arabica, the Kalām fī maḥḍ al-khayr (Latin: Liber de causis), al-Fārābī, Ibn Sīnā, Ibn Rushd and Thomas Aquinas.

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  • 15 Sep 2016
  • The Institute of Ismaili Studies
  • Talks and Lectures

Between Medieval Sufi Apologetics and Polemics: The Rise and Fall of Awhad al-Din Kirmani (d.1238)

This Annemarie Schimmel Memorial Lecture will explore Awhad al-Din Kirmani, a controversial figure among the pantheon of great Sufi masters from the medieval period.

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