Professor Ali Asani: Nizari Ismaili Engagements with the.

Organised in four sections, the first entitled Nizari Ismailis: Syria, Central Asia and China, contains essays on the Nizari Ismailis in these regions while the second, which covers the Nizari Ismailis in South Asia and East Africa, contains essays on a diverse range of subjects from the modernisation of education, to the socio-legal formation of the Nizari Ismailis from 1800-1950 CE.

My review of Vasudha Dalmia and Munis D. Faruqui, ed. Religious Interactions in Mughal India. (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014) a version of which ran in The Book Review (Feb, 2015). In 1674, Mahamat Prannath (1618-1694 CE) and his followers sought an audience with the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb (1619-1707) in the imperial capital of Delhi. Mahamat Prannath had recently split from other.

The aim of this panel is to present new findings and developments in modern scholarship on the history of the Nizari Ismailis during one of the most tantalizing periods of their history, namely the Alamut period, which has been shrouded in myths and legends up until now. The papers on the panel will highlight new sources, methodologies and tools in the study of this period, including new.

The scholarship which has been based on the study of these materials has led to a considerable revision in the estimate of the nature and degree of the significance of the Ismailis in the history of Islam. Nevertheless, the student of Ismailism still continues to be faced by particular problems that do not arise in the study of most other Muslim groups. In part, this is due to the fact that.

Let us not dwell upon the intellectual glories of some forgotten Nizari past. Instead, let me begin this essay with a twentieth-century restatement of Ismailism as a form of thought. Perhaps the most important Muslim thinker of the twentieth century, the Indian poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal also wrote one of the earliest books to reconsider the intellectual tradition of Islam in an.

Later, after a schism that split Ismailism into two major groups; the Nizari and Mustalian branches, the Nizaris succeeded in establishing a cohesive state, with numerous mountain strongholds and scattered territories stretching from eastern Persia to Syria. The Nizari state collapsed only after the onslaught of the all-conquering Mongols.

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An accessible introduction to the Ismaili devotional literature of South Asia with a collection of essays on the. Ismaili ginans; a multitude of issues and currents are covered including Indo.

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