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Harvard Offers Course on Ismaili Islam (Ismailism) in Spring 2017

Posted on January 19, 2017 by Ismaili Gnostic

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Harvard Course on Ismaili Ginans & Muslim Devotional Literature by Dr. Ali Asani

Posted on January 20, 2016 by Ismaili Gnostic

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Upcoming Ismaili Studies Conference (Oct 16-17) features top scholars in Ismaili Studies

Posted on September 17, 2014 by Ismaili Gnostic

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Ali Asani – Chautauqua Video Lecture: “Water as Substance and Symbol in Islam”

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Ismaili Gnostic

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First Irshad of Mawlana Hazar Imam as Imam: “Years of development and change which lie ahead are certain to throw up many new problems. We should not be afraid of these. You will surely surmount them if you stand by your faith. And meet your difficulties in the spirit of humility and tolerance which our religion demands of us. This is especially important for the younger generation who will have to carry the future on their shoulders. Only the faith of your fathers can sustain you and enable you to live in peace here in this world and in the next.” - Imam Shah Karim al-Husayni Aga Khan IV, Takht Nashini, Nairobi, 22nd October, 1957 Courtesy of The.Ismaili on YouTube: https://youtu.be/_isBhF0pDAY #Ismaili #Ismailism #AgaKhan #AhlAlBayt #ProudIsmaili #HazarImam #OneJamat Please visit www.ismailignosis.com or ask.ismailignosis.com or visit our Facebook page www.facebook.com/IsmailiGnosis for more gems about Mawlana Hazar Imam, the Imamat, and Ismaili history and philosophy.

”There has always been a human tendency to seek a simple, all-powerful answer to the world’s problems. Those who have lived or worked in the developing world know this pattern particularly well. When progress seems to be moving at a snail’s pace, we are easily persuaded that there must be some “quick fix”. And thus we have lurched from one panacea to another, from dogmatic socialism to romantic nationalism, from embattled tribalism to rampant individualism. For a period of time we behaved as though our political systems or economic institutions or cultural traditions could save us — or perhaps that some heroic leader was the answer. I suspect that many of us have hoped, from time to time, that education would be the solution — and that if we could create the right learning institutions, then everything else would fall into place. But the plain truth of the matter is that everything else does not just fall into place. The hard reality of life is that there is no single button we can push that will set off an unstoppable wave of progress. Social progress, in the long run, will not be found by delegating an all-dominant role to any one player — but rather through multi-sector partnerships. And within each sector of society, diversity should be a watchword. Healthy communities must respect a range of educational choices, a diversity of economic decision-makers, multiple levels of political activity, and a variety of religious and cultural expressions. There was a time when many felt that modern technology would work against such diversity-blending and homogenising the world. Technology was dehumanising, they said. Digital communications would destroy individual expression. Globalisation would mean standardisation everywhere. This is not what has happened. Instead, what the advancing years have produced, on balance, is an ever more complicated world, with a higher level of diversity — as power is dispersed to the periphery rather than collecting at the hub.” - Imam Shah Karim al-Husayni Aga Khan IV 2006 Aga Khan University Convocation Ceremony (Karachi, Pakistan), 2 December 2006 http://www.nanowisdoms.org/nwblog/7997/ #Ismaili #Ismailism #AgaKhan #AhlAlBayt

"I believe that Islamic cultures have immense power and immense opportunity. It is up to us Muslims to illustrate those civilisations, those cultures of the past and the present.” - Imam Shah Karim al-Husayni Aga Khan IV Signing Ceremony for three agreements: 1) The First MicroFinance Institution the Central Bank of Portgual. 2) The Aga Khan University and Ministries of Health and Higher Education of the Government of Syria. 3) The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development and City of Damascus (Damascus, Syria), 25 August 2008 http://www.nanowisdoms.org/nwblog/8947/ #Ismaili #Ismailism #AgaKhan #AhlAlBayt #ProudIsmaili #HazarImam #OneJamat Please visit www.ismailignosis.com or ask.ismailignosis.com or visit our Facebook page www.facebook.com/IsmailiGnosis for more gems about Mawlana Hazar Imam, the Imamat, and Ismaili history and philosophy.

A little bit of the life of the man Mawlana Hazar Imam called the Finest Imam: Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III. Courtesy of The.Ismaili on YouTube: https://youtu.be/_isBhF0pDAY Read more at: https://ismailignosis.com/2018/05/14/10-crazy-stories-from-ismaili-history/#sultan #Ismaili #Ismailism #AgaKhan #AhlAlBayt #ProudIsmaili #HazarImam #OneJamat Please visit www.ismailignosis.com or ask.ismailignosis.com or visit our Facebook page www.facebook.com/IsmailiGnosis for more gems about Mawlana Hazar Imam, the Imamat, and Ismaili history and philosophy.

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