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In this episode of The Voices of History, seven elders from Syria, Iran, India, East Africa, and northern Pakistan reflect on the memories that shaped their childhoods.

Dr Karim Javan presents two unpublished manuscripts that offer fresh insights into modern Ismaili history, including the early Imamat in India, key political events, and the value of manuscript sources.

Voices Connected: Stories Across Generations brings together different generations through documentary-style video podcasts exploring sociocultural themes. The first episode, Summits of Courage, celebrates mountain cultures of the Pamirs region.

Explore how IIS preserves Ismaili heritage through rare manuscripts, oral histories, and site conservation, with insights from Dr Wafi Momin and Dr Fayaz Alibhai.

Hear the stories of two inspiring women from Hunza in their own voices.

Dr Mohammad Keshavjee shares story and the importance of education.

Zebunissa shares her experience of an Ismaili community growing and changing in modern-day Pakistan.

Professor Topan on cosmopolitanism, community, and education.

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.

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

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.

This short video provides an overview of IIS' manuscripts collections and its main priorities for their conservation and research.