Lifelong Learning Articles -- This first-person article adds additional context to the journey Rizwan Mawani, author of Beyond the Mosque, undertook to better understand the diversity of... According to the author, "In cities and towns all across the world--from Karachi and Tehran to Jakarta and Dakkar, Muslims find ways to express their devotion through acts of piety, not only in mosques but ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- This article explores the concepts of love, friendship and refinement of character presented by the Ikhwan in the context of wider discourses of the time. ... Although the Brethren of Purity (the Ikhwan al-Safa) are often studied, much about their teaching on love remains to be investigated.[1] Ricardo-Felipe Reyna concluded that the Ikhwan's approach to love was mainly ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- KeywordsCanada, immigrants, media, minorities, multi-culturalism, pluralism, private sphere, public sphere, religion, human rights, secularism.Download PDF version of article (51.5 KB) Table of ContentsChurch and StateDebates on AccommodationNeed for Careful ExaminationRights in the Public and Private Spheres Church and State Political developments over the last few centuries have favoured the separation of church and state. Whereas such leanings towards ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- Download PDF version of article (41 KB) Bismillahir rahmanir rahim Excellencies Ladies and Gentlemen I am grateful for the opportunity to speak about philanthropy in Islam, and introduce the Aga Khan Development Network. Islam is a perpetual endeavour towards an equitable order, premised on submission to One God of all-encompassing benevolence who has gifted the human person the ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- The results illustrate a number of continuities and changes in teachers' practices across the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. At one level, Sino and Nigin's professional lives remain much the same as they were in the Soviet period. They retain their commitment to teach and serve in their long-held cultural values and ethical principles. Their practices remain predominantly teacher-centred ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- Keywords Aga Khan III, Sultan Mahomed Shah, humanism, humanist, Islam, leadership, imam, Ismailism, Ismaili, contemporary, modernity, character, biography, emancipation, women, education. Download PDF version of article (167 KB) Table of contentsIntroductionThe Social Status of WomenEducational ReformSocial and Political GovernanceAddressing Racial InequalitiesStriving For a Peaceful World OrderCulture and SpiritualityPersonal Faith and Philosophy of ReligionConclusion Introduction Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, ...
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Lifelong Learning Articles -- Download PDF version of article (46 KB)The Quran is a compilation of utterances by the Prophet Muhammad which all Muslims hold to be divinely inspired. The Quran is thus understood in Islam as a revelation from God (Allah). Muslim intellectuals spent a great deal of effort, in subsequent history, to understand and elucidate these ideas. The precise way ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- Key Words Central Asia, Tajikistan, Badakhshan, Panj River, Pamir Mountains, Tajik Ismaili, Ismaili, spread of Islam, Ismaili da'wa, diversity, Imam, Samanids, Abu Ali ibn Sina, Al-Biruni, Firdousi, Fatimids, Al-Mustansir bi-Allah, Nasir Khusraw, Ali ibn Asad, Sufi Tariqahs, imam, pir, khalifa, jamat, Soviet Union, stability, Aga Khan Development Network Download PDF version of article (45 KB) Table of contents ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- Download PDF version of article Key words: Qur'an, Arabic, Maktab or kuttab, masjid, majlis, jami', Bayt al Hikma, Rasail Ikhwan al-Safa, Diwan, knowledge, hikma, al-Azhar, Nasir-i Khusraw, Fatimids, Nizamiyya, Nizam al-Mulk, Saljuq, embroidery, weaving, carpet-making, calligraphy, Ibn Sina, Aristotle, Euclid, Ptolemy, Safavids,ribat, khanqa, zawiya, jamatkhana, pesantren, Ibn Khaldun, Aligarh. Table of Contents:Education in the Early Period Emerging Models ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- Download PDF version of article (86 KB) "A work of art is an expressive and communicative medium of feelings and thought." Pierre Francastel, 1950.[1] What is the role of art and architecture in society? How can one learn more about history through art and architecture? These apparently simple questions encapsulate a series of complex responses that could easily ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- KeywordsShi'i, Nizari Ismaili, Ismailism, Ismaili Studies, Sunni, Assassin legends, Black legend, Old Man of the Mountain, Marco Polo, orientalist scholarship, manuscripts.Download PDF version of article (37 KB)Table of contentsThe Origins of the MythsThe Black LegendThe Assassin LegendsMisinformed Scholarship A New Era in Ismaili StudiesThe Role of the Institute of Ismaili StudiesThe Origins of the MythsIn the course of ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- Key Words Ismaili Studies, Islamic Studies, Ismailiyya, Ismailis, Heresiography, Assassins, Assassin Legends, Shi'i Studies, Historiography, History, Nizaris. Download PDF version of article (150 KB) The Beginning of Anti-Ismaili Sentiments As the most revolutionary wing of Shi'ism with a religio-political agenda that aimed to uproot the 'Abbasids and restore the caliphate to a line of 'Alid Imams, the Shi'i ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- Download full version of the article in PDF format Key Words Qur'an, Prophet Muhammad, Recitation, Revelation, Muslim History, Gabriel THE QUR'AN AS REVELATION In the Qur'an, a pious Muslim hears God's voice guiding and encouraging, consoling and reproaching, promising the righteous mercy and eternal bliss, while threatening the wicked with wrath and eternal torment. For Muslims, the Qur'an ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- The Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS) was established in 1977 with the objective of promoting scholarship and learning on Muslim cultures and societies, historical as well as contemporary, and encouraging a better understanding of their relationship with other societies and faiths. The Institute's founding aim was defined by a basic and continuingre-assessment of existing scholarly endeavours in this ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- Download PDF version of article (72 KB)Key Words Pluralism, Tolerance, Constitution of Medina, People of the Book, Rasa'il Ikhwan al -Safa', Andalucia, multiculturalism, Attar, The Conference of the Birds. Table of ContentsIntroductionTolerance and Intolerance: Lessons from British HistoryTolerance and Intolerance: Lessons from Muslim History Prophet Muhammad at MedinaCulture of Learning: Contributions of Different FaithsPlurality and the Architectural HeritageMulticulturalism ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- Download PDF version of article (113 KB) Ladies and Gentlemen, Universities are great places for generating new ideas and today, I address you in that spirit, in response to the kind invitation that has been extended to me by Professor Tom Woodhouse. I would like to compliment the Bradford Department of Peace Studies for its innovative programme, which, ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- Download PDF version of article (46 KB) Table of contentsThe Ismaili Community in International PerspectiveIslam and PluralismSocial Conscience in IslamSocial Conscience and the Imamat in Shi'i IslamThe Institution of Imamat and Contemporary SocietyThe Development of an Ismaili ConstitutionSocial Conscience and Institutional ActionThe Ismaili Community in Modern HistoryThe Expansion of the AKDNThe AKDN and Interfaith DialogueThe Ismaili Community in ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- Keywords global, vision, harmony Download PDF version of article (24 KB) Table of contentsDramatic Movements in world historyChanging Values at HomeUnity in DiversityA Meeting Ground You were not here very long, perhaps no longer than four to five years. However, in that time, you and Stanford University have created and shared both individual and common space. It is ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- pluralism_-_beyond_ethnic_and_sectarian_identities_-_amyn_sajoo.pdf (353.6 كيلوبايت) By Dr. Amyn B. Sajoo "At the heart of a democratic ethic is a commitment to genuine dialogue ... a readiness to give and take, to listen, to bridge the empathy gaps as well as the ignorance gaps that have so often impeded human progress. It implies a pluralistic readiness to welcome diversity and to ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- Download article in PDF format (130 KB) Introduction The last in the line of the Abrahamic family of revealed traditions, Islam emerged in the early decades of the seventh century. Its message, addressed in perpetuity, calls upon people to seek in their daily life, in the very diversity of humankind, signs that point to the Creator and Sustainer ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- Download PDF of article (83 KB)Keywords: Culture, Education, Hayy ibn Yaqzan, Heritage, Illiteracy, Ibn Tufayl, Tradition, Socialisation. "And we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight where ignorant armies clash by night" Mathew Arnold leaves us with these grim thoughts, in ending thus his poem 'Dover Beach'. When he penned ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- Key Words Islamic Art, Islam, Muslim, artists, phenomenology, experience, context, civilisation, culture, religious, secular, art, pluralism, artistic civil society, style, ethics, values. Download PDF version of article (150 KB) The Language of Art A picture, it is often claimed, can speak a thousand words. By that logic, objets d'art should be very talkative indeed. Yet time after time ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- Keywords State, Individual, Citizen, Human Rights, Secularism, civil society, democracy, modernity, al-Haqq, Rights, Umma, Enlightenment, Ideology Download PDF version of article (140 KB) Table of ContentsIntroductionThe emergence of the modern Nation-StateReactions to historical discontinuityReappraisal of scholarship on politics in Muslim countriesDirections for intellectual analysisThe contemporary global contextNeed for a political philosophyThe future of the State, the individual and ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- One of the goals of the Institute's website is to facilitate access to secondary literature on Islamic and related fields for the benefit of a non-specialist readership. This section of the website carries a number of articles by the Institute's academic staff, which suit the needs and interests of a non-academic readership. As with all such publications, they ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- Download PDF version of article (56 KB)KeywordsIslam, Renaissance, Sufism, Orientalist myths, misrepresentation, diversity, pluralism, Indonesia, congregational spaces, cultural expressions, cultural influence, cultural exchange, literature, readable gesture.Table of ContentsImagining IslamBeyond ArabiaDomes and Minarets Only?A Hundred Different NotesWorlds of WordsPluralism and DiversityConclusionImagining Islam Of late, particularly since 9/11, the Muslim world has attracted much attention in the West. While such ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- Download PDF version of article (36 KB)Key WordsReform, Reformist, Abduh, al-Afghani, EuropeanEnlightenment, Salafi, Fundamentalism, traditionalists, Soroush, Taha, Ijtihad, traditionTable of contentsIntroductionEarly ReformistsParadox of the Influence of Early ReformistsContemporary Reform MovementsConclusion Introduction The "clash of civilizations" supposedly underway between the West and the Muslim world, which many see as manifested in Iraq, as well as in Saudi Arabia's growing ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- Download PDF version of article (46.6 KB) Table of contentsIntroducing the Huntington ThesisRecasting Civilisation, Revisiting the Role of IslamIslam and Local CulturesIslam and the Colonial EncounterThe Collapse of the Soviet UnionMoving Beyond The Clash of CivilizationsRevisioning Political ArrangementsAnchoring CivilisationThe Allegory of the Conference of the Birds Introducing the Huntington ThesisWe are moving into an age when different civilisations ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- Surat 33 al-Ahzab of the Qur'an, it is known, is composed of pronouncements and legislation in the time around the Battle of the Trench and the Siege of Medina in Du'l-Qa'da of the year 627 CE. The legislation, containing the designation of Muhammad as the Seal of the Prophets (khatam al-nabiyyin) obviously had a major bearing on the ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- Download PDF version of article Table of contentsThe Ismaili MuslimsThe Concept of Negotiated Settlement in Islam - 'Sulh'Modern Infrastructure of the CommunityConciliation and Arbitration BoardsTraining Programmes in MediationLearnings from the Training ProgrammesThe Concept of RelationalityGreater Use of MEDARBThe Need for Institutionalisation and Sustainability of Training ProgrammesA Constant Work in ProgressThe Challenges That Lie Ahead: New DirectionsConclusion My topic ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- Abstract In order to understand the Qur'an, this scripture has to be looked at in the context in which it was revealed, as well as the purpose it serves and how it is interpreted by different sects of Muslims. This is what this article does; the author starts by looking briefly at the life of Prophet Muhammad to ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- Download PDF version of article (30 KB) Table of contentsThe Role of Religion in GlobalisationCommon ValuesSocial ResponsibilityThe Letter of Imam 'Ali to Malik al-AshtarArticulating Social JusticeEthics, Values and the SacredThe Role of Religion in GlobalisationThe document circulated by the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe explains the purpose of this meeting. To put it succinctly, this purpose ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art's expanded 'Islamic galleries' carries spectacular displays of calligraphy, miniatures, glassware, rock crystal, woodwork, metal artefacts and jewellery from various periods. However, following many decades of viewing such exhibitions, and especially in anticipation of the opening of the Aga Khan Museumin Toronto, one ponders on the choices made by curators and the ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- Download PDF version of article (29 KB)Key words:Pancatantra, Sanskrit, Burzuya, Khusraw Anushirwan, Karirak ud Damanak, Shahnama, Ibn al-Mugaffa', Humayun-nama, Iyar-i Danish, Pahlavi, Samarkand.There once lived a lion who terrorized the animals of the jungle by hunting them,until one day they agreed to supply him daily with an animal as long as he stopped his cruelty. The animals continued ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- Download PDF version of article (156 KB) Madam President, Members of the Steering Committee, Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to place on record that I consider it a great honour to be present in Buenos Aires today as a guest of the World Mediation Forum, and for this I would like to express my warm gratitude to ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- Keywords culture, heritage, diversity, globalisation, migration, tradition, values, pluralism, creativity, religion, cultural production, artist, Ismailis, community, jamats, interaction. Download PDF version of article (190 KB) Table of contentsIntroductionThe Roots of Ismaili Cultural DiversityPutting Culture on the AgendaWhat is Culture?Culture and ReligionOne Ismaili Culture or Many?Ismaili Art and Artists in the 21st CenturyA Culture of ExcellenceReferences Introduction"In seeking to ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- Download PDF version of this article The Qur'anic ethics of care and generosity are woven deep into the fabric of Muslim civilisations. Embodied in the daily life of Prophet Muhammad, this ethical spirit emanated from the belief that Allah had entrusted responsibility and obligations to mankind as a whole and to the community of believers in particular. "I ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- Key words Islamic arts, aesthetics, ethics, values, culture, revelation Abstract The arts rise above the limitations of language and texts to offer a window onto other cultures. Artistic beauty and aesthetics can travel across time and place, and transcend cultural and ethnic boundaries. But at the same time, the arts can reflect values and ideals of a particular ...
Lifelong Learning Articles -- Key wordsCitizenship, citizen, Colonialism, diaspora, ummah.Download PDF version of article (107 KB) Present-day ideas about citizenship date from the 18th century, although political theorists have been writing about the concept for over two thousand years. The contemporary idea of the citizen developed in relationship with that of the modern state as it developed in Europe and was spread ...
