Events

  • 25 Sep - 25 Sep 2024
  • Aga Khan Centre
  • Conference

IIS/AKU-ISMC Graduate Conference: Challenges in Muslim Societies

The second annual IIS/AKU-ISMC Graduate Conference will be held on 25 September 2024.

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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
  • Shi'i Studies

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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  • 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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