IHTLS
Ismailis of China: history, culture and tradition
This hybrid lecture explores the social history and cultural life of the Ismaili Tajiks in Xinjiang. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and oral histories, Dr Amier Saidula examines how ritual practice, storytelling and vernacular knowledge sustain religious heritage and collective identity amid historical change.
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al-Sijistānī Explains the Qāʾim: who, when, what
Paul Walker reveals and documents how its author understood the role of the Qāʾim, based first on what this text says about him and then offers some thoughts about what it might indicate about a dramatic shift in Ismaili doctrine during the author’s era.
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But none sought out my secrets from inside: Mawlana Rumi among Muslim Mystics and Beyond
In this talk, Professor Mojaddedi examines Rumi's writings both to situate him within the Sufi tradition and to highlight what that implies about the wider Islamic context which has too often been underappreciated.
