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Muslim Lives in Transition, IIS’s 2026 Annual Graduate Conference, brought together 15 graduate researchers across five panels. They explored how migration, digital media, generative AI, and climate change are reshaping Muslim lives.

At Salaam Talks, Dr Daryoush Mohammad Poor argued that the Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya, often seen as a Twelver text alone, also belongs to Ismaili history. He traced it from Fatimid Cairo to Alamūt.

STEP Cohort 18 student-teachers spent two weeks at IIS exploring faith, ethics and practice. They connected Ismaili traditions with classroom teaching, and met the Sikh community at Southall Gurdwara.

In a lecture at IIS, Dr Christophe Bernasconi called for a more inclusive approach to global multilateralism. The lecture marked the publication of Contemporary Trends in Sharia, for which he wrote the foreword.

Hussain Jasani shared IIS research at the Ismaili Center, Houston, on ginans, Khojki manuscripts, and South Asian Ismaili heritage. He also invited the Jamat to help preserve historical materials held within families.

Dr Fatima Dhanani and Dr Alex Henley joined leading scholars at the EASR-IAHR congress 2026 in Bucharest. They spoke on new critical and decolonial approaches to the study of religion.

Dr Najam Abbas spoke at the Gulf Research Centre Cambridge on changing youth migration from South Asia to the Gulf.

In this new IIS publication, Dr Mohammad Rasekh examines how Muslim inheritance law can respond to changing family structures.

Dr Zehra Kazmi gave an online lecture for the Centre for Studies of Plural Societies in Delhi. She explored how South Asian Muslim writing uses nostalgia and grief to challenge present-day politics.

Three IIS scholars presented papers at the Association for Iranian Studies conference in Utrecht in August 2026. Their panel traced the role of intellect from Nasir Khusraw and Rumi to Ismaili women in Iran today.