Description Ikhwan al-Safa’ (The Brethren of Purity) were the anonymous adepts of a tenth-century esoteric…
Category: Institute of Ismaili Studies
TEHRAN — The first volume of the English translation of the Great Islamic Encyclopedia is…
There are some amazing photographs of Muslim Spaces of Worship and Gathering available at the…
From Institute of Ismaili Studies Just over 1,200 manuscripts (out of nearly 1,700) in the…
In the autumn of 1998, Professor Nanji became the Director of the Institute of Ismaili…
The 27th annual Vancouver International Film Festival will be held September 25 – October 10,…
Friday, October 3, 2008 6:00 pm Dr. Miriam Ali-de-Unzaga, D.Phil. from the University of Oxford,…
43 Page Preview (opens in PDF) September 2008 The IIS is pleased to announce the…
As an anthropologist and social historian I am interested in how human societies articulate, represent…
Abstract It is sometimes remarked that law and ethics have very much to do with…
The latest IIS publication, An Anthology of Ismaili Literature: A Shi‘i Vision of Islam, brings…
…book launch events were arranged in Calgary, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver in Canada, and in…
On July 3, 2008, the IIS launched The Ismailis: An Illustrated History at the Excel…
The IIS has just launched The Ismailis: An Illustrated History which was authored and edited…
Dr. Anjoom Mukadam and Dr. Sharmina Mawani organised the 2nd biennial Gujarat Studies Association (GSA)…