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In this episode, we are honoured to sit down with Professor Karim H. Karim, the inaugural IIS Alumni Recognition Award winner who shares insights into his early days at the IIS and much more.

Join authors Dr Karen Bauer and Professor Feras Hamza as they introduce their latest publication, in conversation with Dr Ziba Mir-Hosseini and Dr Omar Alí-de-Unzaga.

Dr Shainool Jiwa was recently featured on BBC Newshour, where she discusses the origins and spread of the assassin legends from medieval times until today.

This short film features Dr Gurdofarid Miskinzoda exploring a compendium of supplications is known as al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya, attributed to Shi‘i Imam ‘Alī ibn Ḥusayn Zayn al-‘Abidīn.

Dr Karen Bauer and Professor Feras Hamza discuss their newly released book. Watch clips from their interview.

This short film features Dr Orkhan Mir-Kasimov exploring Ni‘matullāhī works transmitted in Badakhshan Ismaili manuscripts which shed light on Ismaili-Sufi interactions.

It is with great sadness that we note the death of our friend and colleague, noted scholar Professor Wilferd Madelung (1930-2023). In this special event at IIS on 18 July 2023, colleagues paid tribute to him and shared their personal reflections.

This short film features IIS Director Emeritus Dr Farhad Daftary on the topic of myths perpetuated about Ismailis and how modern scholarship is able to challenge them due to manuscripts held in our collection.

Dr Farhad Daftary introduces the history of the assassin legends and discusses the inspiration behind the Assassin’s Creed franchise.

Professor Elizabeth Alexandrin will focuses on Kitāb al-Maqālīd and Risālah al-Bāhirah: imaginal motion as the domain of Soul and Soul World.

The prophet has a major metaphysical function. This is a fundamental thesis of Avicenna’s prophetology, and one of the main theses that will be explored in this lecture by Dr Meryem Sebti (CNRS, Paris).