By Dr Reza Shah-Kazemi In this article the author intends to show ways in which…
Category: Muslim Scholars
The IHP collection includes over 275 printed texts (over 84,000 pages), selected from the Middle…
The Central Asian Studies unit of the IIS, in collaboration with the Institute of Oriental…
The Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation (FSTC), in partnership with 1001 Inventions, announces that…
By Joseph A. Kechichian At the time of his death a few months ago, professor…
Nasir al-Din Tusi, Muhammad b. Muhammad b. Hasan, by far the most celebrated scholar of…
CHITRAL: The people of Garam Chashma are celebrating the traditional Pathak Festival here to mark…
The celebrated 13th-century Persian scholar Nasir al-Din Tusi (1201-1274) was one of the most prominent…
Abstract For most of their history, the Ismailis have been studied almost exclusively on the…
Classical concepts of time confronted philosophers with perplexing paradoxes. Some wondered whether time altogether was…
Author : Ibn Sīnā Aga Khan Museum (Genève, SWITZERLAND) – AKM 00510 http://data.manumed.org/eng/treasures/
In the tradition of esoteric Islam, the philosophies of the Ismailis warrant particular attention, and…
The foremost Ismaili jurist and founder of Fatimid Ismaili jurisprudence, Abu Hanifa al-Nu‘man b. Muhammad…
Abu ‘Ali al-Hasan Ibn Sina (ca. 980-1037 CE), known in Latin as Avicenna, was a…
The Ismailis of the Badkahshan region of Tajikistan and Afghanitan constitute an important part of…