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"The Intellect is a Point and a Circle": A Case Study in the Textual Relationship of Abu Ya'qub al-Sijistani's Kitab al-Maqalid and the Longer Theology of Aristotle

Nuqtavis, Safavids and Shi'ism in the 9th–11th/15th–17th Centuries

Necessitated Evil: An Islamic Neoplatonic Theodicy from the Ismaili Tradition

Shifting Identities in Modern Sindh: Bhil and Kohli Hindus of Khebar in the Shia Ismaili Muslim Community

New Release: "The Book of Unveiling: Early Fatimid Ismaili Doctrine in the Kitab al-Kashf, attributed to Ja‘far b. Mansur b. al-Yaman"

'Ahd-i Sayyidna, a Newly Discovered Treatise on the Consolidation of the Nizari Da'wa in Alamut

Alamut and Badakhshan: Newly Identified Sargudhasht-i Sayyidna Manuscripts and their Background

Ismailis: A Pluralist Search for Universal Truth

Evolving Creation: An Ismaili Muslim Interpretation of Evolution

The Unknowable Lord Has Manifested: Quiddity of Deity Between Divine Immanence, and Divine Transcendence, in the Isma'ili Ginan Tradition

The History of Badakhshan from the 7th to the 19th Century

The Shia Ismaili Dawat in Khurasan: From its Early Beginning to the Ghaznawid Era

Literary Resistance to the Philosophy of Slavery in Medieval Islam: Al-Farabi and the Ikhwan al-Safa'

Philosophy of the Imamat according to Mulla Sadra: An Analysis of the Personality and Attributes of the Imam in the Light of the Transcendent Theosophy

The Bohras as Neo-Fatimids: Documentary Remains of a Fatimid Past in Gujarat

“In Praise of al-Hakim” Greek Elements in Ismaili Writings on the Imamate

Ismaili-Sufi Relationships in the Light of the Ni'mat Allahi Manuscripts in the Holdings of the Institute of Ismaili Studies

Ismaili Studies Digest: Week 1

The Non-Crucifixion Verse: A Historical, Contextual, and Linguistic Analysis

The Prophet Muhammad and His Heir Ali: Their Historical, Metahistorical and Cosmological Roles in Ismaili Shi'ism

La réorganisation du système judiciaire fatimide sous al-Muizz [The reorganization of the Fatimid judicial system under al-Muizz]

The Ismaili Tradition in Iran: 13th Century to the Present

The Sound Traditions: Studies in Ismaili Texts and Thought

Fatimid Historiography and its Survival. A Case Study of the Vizierate of al-Yazuri

The Ismailis of Badakhshan: Conversion and Narrative in Highland Asia

Diasporas of Empire: Ismaili Networks and Pamiri Migration

Ismaili Muslims in Moscow: community, identity and integration

The Seven Pillars of the Shari'a and the Question of Authority in Central Asian Ismaili Manuscripts: An Ismaili Esoteric Discourse

A Reconsideration of Post-Alamut Nizari Ismaili Literature in Iran: Prose and Poetry

A Neo-Fatimid Treasury of Books: Arabic Manuscripts among the Alawi Bohras of South Asia

Al-Ghazali as a Key Historical Witness to the Ismaili Doctrine of ta'lim

The Discovery, Description and Publication of the Manuscripts of Two Major Nizari Ismaili Texts from the Alamut Period: The Haft Bab and the Diwan-i Qa'imiyyat of Hasan-i Mahmud-i Katib

Ismaili Ta'wil of Religious Rites: Interpretation of Obligatory Prayer in Ja'far b. Mansur al-Yaman's Rida fi l-Batin

Early Swahili Mosques: The Role of Ibadi and Ismaili Communities, Ninth to Twelfth Centuries

Endangered Languages of Central Asia. Prospects for Development in the New Millennium

Muhammad Iqbal on the Question of Ahmadi Exclusion and Ismaili Inclusion

A Case Study in Arabic Doxography: Shahrastani's Account of Pythagoras and its Ismaili Background

Ismaili Manuscripts and Modern Scholarship in Ismaili Studies

Charting the Future of the Ginans: Needs and Expectations of the Ismaili Youth in the Western Diaspora

An Old Man, a Garden, and an Assembly of Assassins: Legends and Realities of the Nizari Ismaili Muslims

The Demon in Potentiality and the Devil in Actuality: Two Principles of Evil according to 4th/10th Century Ismailism

The difficult search for belonging for Canadian-born Ismaili Muslim adolescents in Toronto, Canada

The Majmu' al-tarbiya between Text and Paratext: Exploring the Social History of a Community's Reading Culture

Ismaili Doctrines in a Late Safavid Work: Quotations from the Risalat al-Jami'a in Qutb al-Din Ashkivari's Mahbub al-Qulub

The Manuscript Copies of Abu Hatim al-Razi's Kitab al-Zina at The Institute of Ismaili Studies

Cairo as a Palace: Rituals of the Fatimid Caliphate

Writing the Quran between the Lines: Preliminary Remarks on Marginalia in the Quran Manuscripts held by The Institute of Ismaili Studies

The Scent of the Scarlet Pimpernels: Ismaili Leaders of the 11th/17th Century

Early Ismaili History in Central Asia

Shi'i Communities in Southeast Asia: Religious Harmony Institutions and Peaceful Sunni-Shia

The Living Words of God: Al-Mu'ayyad al-Shirazi's Shi'i Ismaili Theory of Revelation

Persecutions against Isma'ili Missionaries in Central Asia: The Case of Nāser Khosrow

Fatimid History and Ismaili Doctrine

An Ismaili Thinker on Abraham and Moses' Recognition of the Earthly and Celestial Hierarchies 1: Translation of the Kitab al-Islah by Abu Hatim al-Razi 16-(1)

Book Review: Command and Creation: A Shi'i Cosmological Treatise. A Persian Edition and English Translation of Muhammad al-Shahrastaani’s Majlis-i maktuub

Reconsidering the Influence of the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa’ on Ibn al-Sid al-Batalyawsi’s Kitab al-dawa’ir

Abu Ya'qub al-Sijistani and the Longer Theology of Aristotle: In Search of a Common Source

Book Review: Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality by Shenila Khoja-Moolji

How Angel Gabriel Became Our Brother of the Hereafter: On the Question of Ismaili Influence on Alevism

Abu Tammam and His Kitab al-Shajara: a New Ismaili Treatise From Tenth-Century Khurasan

Textual Endings as Persuasive Educational Beginnings: An Inquiry into the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity

The Fatimids 2: The Rule from Egypt

The Origins of Ismailism and the Politics of Representation

Are the "Seven Pillars" Still Relevant in Contemporary Nizari Ismaili Thought?: The Presentation of al-Qadi al-Nu'man in 21st Century Nizari Religious Education