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IIS Sponsors Panel on Ismaili Thought at Aquinas and the Arabs Conference

The IIS has continued its engagement with the Aquinas and “the Arabs” International Working Group Meeting this year, which runs online in May-June 2021.

On May 19th, the Institute sponsored the panel "Ismaili Thought: Between Neoplatonism and Aquinas" at the conference, which this year has the title “Philosophy in the Abrahamic Traditions: Structures of Being, World and Mind”.

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Salvation and Destiny in Islam: The Shiʿi Ismaili Perspective of Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī

Medieval Islamic philosophers were deeply occupied with questions of predestination and salvation. Debates surrounding human responsibility for their actions, together with issues of cosmology, the notion of

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The Master and the Disciple: An Early Islamic Spiritual Dialogue

This volume presents a fully annotated English translation and critical edition of the Arabic text of the Kitab al–‘Alim wa’l Ghulam (The Book of the Master and the Disciple), one of the earliest Ismaili Shi‘i writings by the famous AH 4th/10th century CE Yemeni author, Ja‘far b. Mansur al–Yaman.

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