From highland peasant farmers in Central Asia to Canadian industrialists, from South Asian businessmen to Europe based scholars, the Nizari Ismailis are one of the Muslim world’s most diverse Shi’a communities.
With adherents living in more than twenty-five countries they embrace peoples of widely different ethnic and linguistic backgrounds. The spiritual leaderof this highly dynamic community has in recent generations come to be known as the ‘Aga Khan.’
Malise Ruthven explores how the present Harvard educated Aga Khan, head of the Nizari Ismailis, has attempted to preserve and build on a religious tradition rooted in medieval theology while at the same time embracing the modern world without loss of faith or cultural identity.
Malise Ruthven is an author and scholar.
Organiser : Asia House
Date : 07 Oct 2009
Time : 6:30 PM
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