Qiyamat Now!
Qiyamat Now! Collected articles from the Zine: Qiyamat: a newsletter for friends of the Imam This is a collection of articles from my zine which ran for about a year 1998-9. I collected those articles which mostly dealt with the topic of Qiyamat from a Nizari Ismaili perspective. Also collected here are some Moorish Orthodox […]
Tolerance
The Tolerance of the Fâtimids toward “The People of the Book” (Ahl al-kitâb) Diana Steigerwald “With respect to relations between the Western and Islamic worlds, are we not seeing a conflict of stereotypes and prejudices, exacerbates by a good measure of ignorance about Islam? There are, of course, some differences, but if superficiality and trivialization […]
Ginans
The following is a very useful introduction of the ginans in Tazim Kassam’s book ‘Songs of Wisdom and Circles of Dance’. This book is a complete English translation of Pir Sham’s ginans. For those interested in ginans, this is an invaluable book to have. Ginans: A Wonderful Tradition Coursing through cultures and time, tuneful verse […]
New Speech by the Imam Aga Khan IV
SPIEGEL ONLINE – October 12, 2006, 02:34 PM URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,442180,00.html SPIEGEL Interview with Aga Khan “Islam Is a Faith of Reason” Karim Aga Khan IV, descendant of the prophet Muhammad and spiritual leader of 20 million Ismaili Muslims, discusses the foundations of his faith, the controversy over the pope’s recent statements about Islam and ways […]
Critique
A Short Critique of Meherally’s “A Brief History of the Aga Khans” Meherally has devoted an website to propagate information he feels will damage the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslim faith. It is from this website that naive anti-Ismaili Muslims get the files that they then post to various newsgroups. Most Ismailis have been very reluctant […]
Corbin and Massignon on the “Imam-of-one;s-own-being” by Corvus
There is circulating among the qiyamati faction the legend of the Imam of one’s own being, a saying which comes most directly from Peter Lamborn Wilson and his post-modern Islamic guerrilla ontology. The Imam of one’s own being may be traced back to the work of Henry Corbin and his tawil on Imamat, particularly in […]
Posts
I will be putting up selected posts from the Ismailism mailing list on this blog especially those from its earlier days. Feel free to make comments.
A Batini interpretation of The Sprites 72.16-18
(16) If they would only keep straight along the highway, We will let them drink plenty of water (17) so We may test them by means of it; while it will lead anyone away to mounting torment who avoids mentioning his Lord. (18) Mosques belong to God, so do not appeal to anyone besides God […]
A Few points concerning the Following article
1. Ismailis pray du’a three times a day. It could be that the Chinese Ismailis pray twice a day due to circumstances not mentioned in the article. 2. Ismaili’s worship in jamatkhanas and not mosques 3. Ismailis only have one Imam at any given time. They do not call the leadership of their jamatkhanas “imams” […]
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