国产视频

Events

  • 22 Jul 2022
  • Aga Khan Centre and Online
  • Conference

Mu鈥檛azilism and the Qur鈥檃n Conference

This conference will focus on the influence of Mu`tazilism on all aspects of the Qur鈥檃n, its status, interpretation, and relationship to the Prophet. The speakers will address Mu`tazilite thought and the influence it had on Islamic theology in other schools.

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  • 14 Jul 2022
  • Aga Khan Centre and Online

Pre-Existence: a Myth and its Implications in Imami-Shi士i Thought

The notion that events bearing far-reaching consequences for the human condition took place prior to the creation of the world and of man has been a central theme in the Islamic literary tradition. This lecture seeks to demonstrate how the raw materials of this notion in Imami-Shi士i thought were addressed, creatively interpreted and elaborated upon by thinkers of two periods: the Buwayhid (945-1055 CE) and Safavid (1501-1722 CE).

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  • 09 Jun 2022
  • Online
  • Webinar

A Fatimid Text on the Necessity of the Imamate: The Book of Interim Times and Planetary Conjunctions (Kit膩b al-Fatar膩t wa-l-qir膩n膩t)

This lecture will discuss the contents and context of The Book of Interim Times and Planetary Conjunctions as well as the state of current scholarship on it.

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  • 26 May 2022
  • Aga Khan Centre
  • Book launch

Book launch: 鈥淧atterns of Wisdom in Safavid Iran鈥�

Join us for this special event celebrating the scholarship and academic achievements of our late esteemed colleague, Dr Janis Esots, and to mark the launch of his latest publication, Patterns of Wisdom is Safavid Iran: The Philosophical School of Isfahan and the Gnostic of Shiraz.

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  • 28 Apr 2022
  • Online
  • Webinar

Soul鈥檚 Imaginal Motion in Ab奴 Ya鈥榪奴b al-Sijist膩n墨鈥檚 (fl. 10th CE) Kit膩b al-Maq膩l墨d and Ris膩lah al-B膩hirah

This lecture will focus on what Ab奴 Ya鈥榪奴b al-Sijist膩n墨 (d.ca. 361 AH/972 CE) presents in Kit膩b al-Maq膩l墨d and Ris膩lah al-B膩hirah on imaginal motion as the domain of Soul and Soul World. Just as much as Soul鈥檚 movement is determining how natural time and natural motion arise, Soul鈥檚 activities shape and condition what is- what is existing and coming into existence.

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A cover of the documentary 'Voices from the Roof of the world'
  • 22 Apr 2022
  • Aga Khan Centre
  • Webinar

Documentary Screening and Discussion on Climate Anxiety

The documentary focuses on climate anxiety due to natural hazards, such as flooding in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. This documentary presents their side of the story, as a starting point for discussions around climate anxiety.

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  • 25 Mar 2022
  • Aga Khan Centre
  • Talks and Lectures

"The Proper Name" by Professor Faisal Devji

This event is the closing keynote address of the IIS-Cambridge workshop on the study of Islam at the end of the empire. The workshop brings together scholars of Muslim thought in order to reassess and reconsider a critical moment in the making of modern Islam: the transition from orientalism to 鈥淚slamic Studies鈥�.

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  • 17 Mar 2022
  • Aga Khan Centre
  • Book launch

Command and Creation: A Shi'i Cosmological Treatise - Book Launch

Join us for this special launch event for Command and Creation: A Shi鈥檌 Cosmological Treatise, with author Dr Daryoush Mohammad Poor in lively conversation with Dr Toby Mayer, both Senior Research Associates at 国产视频.

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  • 03 Mar 2022
  • London
  • Book launch

Ismaili Festivals Book Launches in Series of Popular Events

Ismaili Festivals: Stories of Celebration by Dr Shiraz Kabani, the first title in the IIS鈥檚 Living Ismaili Traditions series, has launched in recent weeks at a series of popular events.

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"Prophet Muhammad Preaching", Folio from a Maqtal-i Al-i Rasul of Lami'i Chelebi, late 16th c. Image credit: Met Museum.
  • 03 Feb 2022
  • Aga Khan Centre
  • Talks and Lectures

The Metaphysical Dimension of the Prophet in Avicenna鈥檚 Thought

The prophet has a major metaphysical function. This is a fundamental thesis of Avicenna鈥檚 prophetology, and one of the main theses that will be explored in this lecture.

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