Join the South Asian Studies Unit as they explore ideas of translation in conversation, such as those concentrating on Ismaili and Sufi studies in Persian and South Asian vernaculars.
The Institute of Ismaili Studies is pleased to announce the graduation celebration for the STEP Class of 2015 students. Venue: Social Hall, The Ismaili Centre, 1 Cromwell Gardens, SW7 2SL, London Date: 9th April 2016 Time: 1:30 pm
The primary focus of the workshop is to provide an overview of writing supports and structures of Islamic manuscripts, bookbinding and decoration, scripts, as well as composition and transmission of texts.
This lecture will discuss how developing themes found in the Qur’an and culled from Greek and Jewish, Indian and other sources, Muslim thinkers forged a compelling humanism, precious in the classical age and deserving recovery and reconstruction in our own.
When people come to read the Qur’an, there is an interaction between what the words of the Qur’an say and what the person reading the text already thinks and believes before reading it. This lecture marks the launch of The Meaning of the Word: Lexicology and Qur’anic Exegesis (2015)
To this end we will review three Qur’anic suras that embody our approach: Sūrat al-Fātiḥa (Q. 1), Sūrat Yā Sīn (Q. 36) and Sūrat al-Raḥmān (Q. 55).
Two of the Institute of Ismaili Studies research associates will be presenting papers at the eight conference of The Iranian Studies of the Societas Iranologica Europaea.
Dr Alessandro Cancian presents his paper entitled ‘Shi'i Sufism and Mystical Exegesis in the Light of Recent Research’ at the International Qur'anic Studies Association.
This lecture will introduce to a Quranic singular literary form: the ‘counter discourse’, i.e. the discourse of the Quran’s opponents mentioned in the Quran itself.
The lecture will focus on the mystical and messianic movement that came to be known under the name of Hurufiyya, meaning ‘letterists’, which was founded in Iran in the second half of the 8th AH/14th CE century by Fadl Allah Astarabadi (d. 796 AH/1394 CE).
the launch of M. Brett Wilson’s book entitled Translating the Qur’an in an Age of Nationalism: Print, Culture and Modern Islam in Turkey (Oxford University Press, 2014).