• 05 Apr 2025
  • Graduation

IIS Graduation 2025

Celebrate with us via livestream, starting at 14.00 BST on 5 April 2025.
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Muharram sermon in Surat, India 2014.
  • 20 Mar 2025
  • Talks and Lectures

Articulating Authority in a Shi‘a Isma'ili Community: A Case of Da’udi Bohras of South Asia, 1789-1965

Vineet Gupta explores historical junctures where modernity has transformed the virtues of authority among the Da’udi Bohras. This online lecture will take place on 20 March 2025.
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Illustration from Epistles of the Brethren of Purity, Bodelain Library, Folio 150a.
  • 14 Mar 2025
  • AIHLS

Issues in Theology and Ethics: A Contemporary Approach

Mariam al-Attar explores the implicit ontological and epistemological assumptions in jurisprudential discourse in the next Arabic and Islamic History Lecture.
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  • 20 Feb 2025
  • Talks and Lectures

“Songs of the Sufi” Screening

The Aga Khan Centre will host an exclusive showing of Songs of the Sufi (2023) on 20 February.
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View of Alamut rock
  • 19 Feb 2025
  • Conference

Nizārī Ismailis and Spiritual Resurrection

An exciting conference recounting the events and impact of qiyāma will be held on 19 February at the Aga Khan Centre and online via Zoom.
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Muhammad Osimi
  • 17 Feb 2025
  • Screening

“Osimi” documentary screening

The IIS and Mosaic Global Foundation will host an exclusive showing of Osimi (2018) at the Aga Khan Centre on 17 February.
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Cover of Sullam al-najāh. MS 716 of the Ismaili Special Collection
  • 13 Feb 2025
  • IHTLS

al-Sijistānī Explains the Qāʾim: who, when, what

Paul E Walker explores al-Sijistani's "Ladder to Salvation" and how it shifted Ismaili doctrine regarding the Qa'im in the next Islamic History and Thought Lecture.
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  • 09 Jan 2025
  • AIHLS

What happened to half of humanity?

Yasmin Amin explores the Qur'anic term al-insān al-kāmil and its application to both men and women in an Arabic-language lecture on 9 January at 16:30 GMT.
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  • 21 Nov 2024
  • IHTLS
  • Lecture series

The Four Books of Shiʿi Hadith: From Inception to Consolidation

Dr Amin Ehteshámi explores The Four Books, a collection of Shiʿi Hadith in the latest Islamic History and Thought lecture on 21 November.
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  • 15 Nov 2024
  • AIHLS

The Comprehensive Epistle and its Useful Benefits

Dr Mourad Kacimi explores al-Risāla al-jāmiʿa (The Comprehensive Epistle) and the secretive group who composed it in this Arabic-language lecture.
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The Minaret of Jam. Shahrak District, Ghor Province, Afghanistan.
  • 08 Nov 2024
  • Conference

Afghanistan: Continuity and the Persistence of Tradition, Culture and Identity

This conference explores the country’s tradition, cultural identity and heritage amid contemporary challenges and transformations. The conference will be held at the Aga Khan Centre and online (via Zoom) on 8-9 November 2024.
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  • 06 Nov 2024
  • IHTLS
  • Lecture series

The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism

Dr Toby Matthiesen outlines centuries of Sunni-Shiʿi relations focussing on the connections between the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East.
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