Academic Article -- Key words: Muslim, Jews, Christians, Interfaith relations, Qur'an, Byzantine, Monotheism, Sira, Ummayad, Ahl al-Kitab, Dhimmi, Ottoman, Sunna, Umma, Constitution of Medina, history, al Azhar, Bayt al-Hikma, Safavid, Vatican, Roman Catholic Church, Aramaic, Coptic Download PDF version of the article Table of ContentsIntroductionMuslims, Jews, and Christians: Relations and InteractionsThe Foundational PeriodThe Early Centuries of Muslim HistoryThe Medieval PeriodThe Modern PeriodThe ...

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Academic Article -- Keywords Alamut, al-Ghazali, Assassin legends, community, Crusaders, da'is, da'wa, Fatimids, hashishiyya, heresiography, historiography, history, Islamic Studies, Ismaili, Ismailis, Ismailism, Ismaili studies, Marco Polo, Nizaris, Orientalism, scholarship.Download PDF version of article (291 KB)Table of contents IntroductionThe Fatimid PeriodThe Nizari / Musta'li DivisionThe Anti-Ismaili CampaignHeterodoxy and Heresyal-GhazaliHashishiyyaAssassin LegendsOrientalismModern Ismaili StudiesContemporary Research and Scholarship Introduction A major Shi'i Muslim community, the Ismailis ...

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Academic Article -- Download PDF of article (124 KB)Key wordsQur'anic commentary, exegesis, binary, hermeneutical keys, Shafi'ism, Ash'arism, al-ta'wil, Nizari, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi.Dr Muhammad 'Ali Azarshab's editio princeps of Shahrastani's Qur'an commentary retrieves a strange jewel of Muslim intellectual history from near oblivion. In the sections of the work which analyse Qur'anic arcana (asrar), the modern reader finds a fully elaborated system to ...

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Academic Article -- Download PDF version of article (32 KB)Key words:Neoplatonism, Syriac, Plotinus, Plato, Republic, Phaedo, Symposium, Aristotelian, Stoic, neo-Pythagorean, Enneads, Nous (intellect), methaphysics, Platonists, creatio ex nihilo, the World Soul, Laws, Sophist, Timaeus, history of ideas in Islam, al-Madina al-Fadila (The Virtuous City), Corpus Platonicum, Tandhib al-akhlaq (The Cultivation of Morals), Ibn Miskawayh, Liber de Causis (Kitab al-Khayr al-Mahd), al-Kindi, Ikhwan ...

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Academic Article -- Keywords Modernity, Islam, Historicity, Fundamentalism, Tradition, Identity, History, Religion, the Abrahamic Faiths, the universal and the particular Download PDF version of article (36 KB) Table of ContentsSome Fundamental Questions of our timesIslam: Fact and IdeaHistory vs. SystemModernity: Prospects and PredicamentsThe Need of the HourThe Power of AspirationAbrahamic Commonalities Some Fundamental Questions of our times It is now more than ...

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Academic Article -- Key WordsHadith, Imam Ali, al-Nawawi, 'Abd al-Rahman Jalal al-Din al-SuyutiThe first paragraph of the article is reproduced below: There are a great many short hadith (traditions attributed to Prophet Muhammad) collections comprising forty ahadith (pl. of hadith). The most famous is the Forty Ahadith of Muhyi al-Din Abu Zakariyya Yahya b. Sharaf al-Nawawi (d. 631/1233). The al-Nawawi collection, actually ...

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Academic Article -- Download PDF version of article (158 KB) Key wordsIsmaili, Shi'a, taqiyya, Imamah, Imam 'Ali, Caliphate, Fatimid, Abbasid, Ahl al-Bayt, da'wa, shari'a, dawr al-satr,Alamut, Nizari, Musta'li, Zaydi,tawhid,ta'wil,hadith, batin,zahir, haqa'iq, 'ilm, al-Azhar,wazier,al-Qahira,mahdi,Ifriqiya,da'i, Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq, Pir, Nasir-i Khusraw, ginan, Safavid, Aga Khan, nur, qiyamah, ta'lim, 'ulama.Table of ContentsIntroductory RemarksThe Formative Period of IsmailismThe Period of Fatimid RuleAspects of Fatimid Ismaili DoctrineThe ...

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Academic Article -- Download the PDF version of this article Table of Contents:The Problem Of TimeThe Ismaili Definition of Time and EternityThe Womb of History The Problem Of Time One of the more serious and threatening, yet unsolved, problems in theology is uncertainty about the meaning of time. Clearly, the theologian of an omnipotent and absolute God must reconcile His transcendence with ...

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Academic Article -- Keywords da 'i, da 'wa, al-da 'wa al-hadiya, Al-da 'wa al Jadida, Al-da 'wa al Qadima, Nizari, Mustalis Qiyama, Muhammad b. Ahmad al-Nasafi, Al-Sijistani, Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani, Fatimids, Nasir-i Khusraw, Hasan-i Sabbah, Alamut, Khurasan, Transoxania, Qaramita, Samanids, Buyids, Seljuqs, al-Mu'ayyad fi'l-Din al-Shirazi, Badakhshan, Rudbar, Quhistan, Anjudan, Hasan 'aladhikrihi'l-salam, Qiyama Download PDF version of article (411 KB) Table of contentsEmergence ...

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Academic Article -- Abstract The historical formation of the worldwide Muslim community or Umma, as it is known in Arabic, has resulted in a great deal of diversity that reflects a rich intellectual, spiritual, and institutional pluralism. In seeking to express a response to the primal message of Islam, Muslims have developed distinct perspectives that have led various groups to coalesce around ...

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Academic Article -- A common assumption about the ethical roots of the pre-modern western tradition is that they derive primarily from biblical norms as well as the ethical traditions of classical antiquity. Such a view, however, neglects the important role and connection with Islam, which in its formative period, engaged with the intellectual and cultural resources of antiquity and acted as a ...

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Academic Article -- This is an edited version of an article that originally appeared in Al-Kitab: La Sacralité du Texte Dans Le Monde de l'Islam. Actes du Symposium International Tenu à Leuven et Louvain-la-Neuve du 29 Mai au 1 Juin 2002, ed. Daniel De Smet, Godefroyde Callataÿ, and JanVan Reeth, published by Acta Orientalia Belgica, Subsidia III, 2004, pp. 371-87. In the ...

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Academic Article -- Dr Shainool Jiwa This is an edited version of an article originally published in The Shi'i World: Pathways in Tradition and Modernity. I.B. Taurus, London, 2015, pp 111-130. The medieval Mediterranean littoral was a region inhabited by people of diverse ethnic backgrounds and religious persuasions. This was evident in 10th century Egypt, the mainstay of Fatimid domains, a land ...

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Academic Article -- The founding of the Fatimid state in North Africa in 297 AH / 910 CE led to the establishment of a Shi'i Ismaili caliphate on the shores of the Mediterranean. From 297-361 AH / 910-972 CE, the Fatimid state was centred in the North African province of Ifriqiya (present day Tunisia and Algeria), its borders extending from the shores ...

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Academic Article -- Al-ḥamdu li'llāhi fātiri'l-samāwāti wa'l-arḍi jā'ili'l-malā'ikati rusulan ūlā ajniḥatin Mathnā wa-thulātha wa-rubā'a yazīdu fī'l-khalqi mā yashā'u inna'llāha 'alā kulli shay'in qadīr. Q. 35:1 Praise belongs to God, Originator of the heavens and the earth, who appointed the angels to be messengers, having wings two, three and four, increasing creation as He wills. Surely God is powerful.[1] The opening of Q. ...

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Academic Article -- Abstract: The founding of the Fatimid caliphate across the southern Mediterranean, and then in Egypt, Syria and the Hijaz at the turn of the fourth AH / tenth CE century, necessitated its negotiation with the ashraf, those who claimed lineal descent from the Prophet Muhammad, and who by this time had gained significant influence as a social class based ...

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IIS Update -- The Institute has been publishing an annual IIS Update since 2000, to inform its supporters, affiliates and well-wishers of its programmes and activities over the previous year. Also included in the Update is information about the Institute's recent and forthcoming publications as well as news about its faculty and staff. ...

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IIS Update -- The Institute has been publishing an annual IIS Update since 2000, to inform its supporters, affiliates and well-wishers of its programmes and activities. The IIS Update includes information about the Institute's recent and forthcoming projects, as well as news about its publications and staff. ...

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Interview -- This lecture by Dr Stephen Burge explores aspects of the supernatural in Prophet Mohammed's life, using material found in the biographies of the Prophet and in the hadith Literature. Dr Burge argues that the presence of angels and the supernatural form an important spiritual element within the narratives of the events in the Prophet's life. He illustrates this using examples ...

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The Secondary Teacher Education Programme (STEP) is a course of study for practicing and prospective teachers. STEP's mission is to address the need for professional secondary education teachers by training exceptional graduates into teachers and mentors who can help to shape and inspire future generations and teach The Institute of Ismaili Studies' Secondary Curriculum to Ismaili students worldwide. The master's level teacher ...

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Speech -- This video shows 17 minutes of His Highness' address at the 25th Anniversary Graduation Ceremony of The Institute of Ismaili Studies.At this graduation ceremony which took place at Le Meridien Grosvenor House Hotel in London on the afternoon of October 19, 2003, fifteen Members of the Class of 2004 and 180 alumni of the Institute's varied programmes were honoured. In ...

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