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 | | Ismailism is in fact an Islamic restatement of religious notions well attested in the pre-conquest Middle East; but then Islam itself could be similarly characterized. | | | They saw Ismailism as a melange of pre-Islamic beliefs concocted by the conquered peoples, particularly the Iranians, to subvert Islam from within. | | | Some continuities notwithstanding, it was not in religion that Iran made its comeback. |
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http://arabworld.nitle.org/texts.php?module_id=2&reading_id=305&sequence=11
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| Â | Institute of Ismaili Studies - Isma‘ilism |
| | Ismailism is a part of the Shi'ite branch of Islam whose adherents constitute at present a small minority within the wider Muslim ummah. | | | In common with Shi'ite Islam, Ismailism affirms that after the death of the Prophet Muhammad his cousin and son-in-law, 'Ali, became Imam, based on a specific designation made by the Prophet before his death. | | | This notion of faith, which establishes action as an integral part of spiritual development and perfection, is the basis for the hermeneutics of ritual in Ismailism and for the interplay of the ideas of zahir and batin, which in this context can refer to ritual action and its inner universal meaning. |
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http://www.iis.ac.uk/learning/life_long_learning/islamic_spirituality/islamic_spirituality.htm
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| | Furthermore, there are some inaccuracies: - Ismailis are inaccurately known as "sevener Shias". | | | - Re: "Unlike other Shia communities of Islam, this community has a living Imam, called the Aga Khan", apart from the fact that this only refers to Nizari Ismailism, technically ALL Shia follow a living Imam. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Ismaili
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| Â | CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS Journal of Social and Political Studies |
| | Ismailism appeared in the eighth century when Caliph Ali and his supporters, together with Fatima, daughter of the Prophet, and followers of Imam Ismail spoke against the violation of the principle of inheritance of the Imamat. | | | In the tenth and eleventh centuries Ismailism came to the Middle East and Central Asia as a religion and philosophy which offered new explanations to many key questions of being and spirit. | | | Still, throughout its history Ismailism concentrated on the question of Imamat, total obedience to the Imam as the source of religious and philosophical knowledge. |
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http://www.ca-c.org/journal/eng-02-2000/14.shokhumorov.shtml
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| Â | Introduction to Ismailism by Dr. Sheikh Khodr Hamawi |
| | Ismailism paid more attention to philosophy of religion starting from the theory of one unified unity of the universe, the unity of religions, aiming at a united humanity. | | | This group is called Druzes (39)and it lives in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine (40) But the majority of Ismailis followed the son of Imam Al-Hakem, Al-Zaher, and his descendants up to Imam Mustanser Billah, Here a Major division took place in Ismailism. | | | Such terms were permitted in Ismailism, but at the same time the fact that they are not true indicators of God's nature was emphasized strongly. |
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| | I had questioned you earlier about Ismailism but I am not really satisfied with your answer. | | | Is the Aga Khan the real descendent of Muhammad as Ismaili Muslims claim, even though they don't really act like Muslims. | | | I do not have an ‘Ismaili Question and Answer’ section on my web site. |
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http://www.understanding-islam.com/rsi/si-012.htm
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| Â | Donmeh West - A Critical Re-Assessment of Sabbatai Zevi |
| | The center of their worship is [as in Ismailism] 'Ali [the first Imam, or "Gate of God"]; they unite [as do the Ismailis] 'Ali with Allah and Muhammad as a trinity." ( Shorter Encyclopedia of Islam, p. | | | In support of this, Gibb and Kramers write, "In their secret doctrines [the Bektashya] are Shi'ites, acknowledging the twelve imams. |
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| Â | The Institute of Ismaili Studies - The Ismaili Da'wa Outside the Fatimid dawla |
| | Large numbers of Hindus converted to Ismailism in that region of the Indian subcontinent, where the khutba was read in the name of al-Mu‘izz and the Fatimids. | | | Within the Fatimid state, the da’wa enjoyed unbridled freedom to propagate the faith and expound upon ideological developments. | | | However, the Fatimid’s policies of tolerance and freedom of religion prevented Ismailism from ever rooting deeply into the North African population. |
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http://www.iis.ac.uk/research/academic_papers/Ismaili_dawa1/ismaili_dawa1.htm
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| Â | Cosmology and authority in medieval Ismailism |
| | As a branch of Shiism, Ismailism recognizes the authority of the Imam, who, after the Prophet Muhammad, is the representative of God on earth. | | | Authority, that is the right to command and to be obeyed, is according to Ismailism, of divine origin. | | | Every Ismaili author makes this point very clear; Kirmani, for example, says that obedience to the highest living authority, that is the imam, is equivalent to obedience to God Furthermore, obedience to the ranks as a whole is also equivalent to obedience to God. |
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http://www.dawoodi-bohras.com/multipageboard/messages/298.html
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| Â | SHIITES AND SHIAISM, Shi'aism, Shia, Shias, Shî'ah, sheee, shi'ites, Shi'it, Shi'at, Shiaa, Ashura, Muharram, Rafiadah, ... |
| | Neither I personally wish anyone to have them but to save the innocent simple Muslims from the Shiites (Raafidah) it was necessary to write them and forward them to our fellow Muslims so that they can know the real terrifying beliefs of Shiites. | | | Additionally I have also listed some articles about Ismailism and the Agakhanis; one of the more deviant groups within the Shia religion they |
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http://www.salaf.indiaaccess.com/shiites/index.htm
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| | The ginans contain the teachings of Ismaili Pirs (authorized teachers) who were sent by the Imam of the Time (who all resided in Iran from the 11th century till 1841 when Imam Aga Khan I moved the Imamate to Bombay, British India) to convert the Hindus of northern India. | | | It is a common practice amongs Sufis and during the last period of concealment, Iranian Ismailis appeared to be a Sufi order.10 Ismailism being an esoteric [batin] sect shares many similarities with Sufism in its esoteric aspects.11 V. | | | Pirs (also known as Dais) were the missionary teachers who spread the teachings of Ismailism throughout the known world. |
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http://www.luckymojo.com/esoteric/religion/islam/ismaili/9903.ismintr.jd
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| | To become an ismaili I HAD to learn the fundamentals of islam and Ismailism and the prayers which are mainly in Arabic. | | | And we started looking for a church and found that not all churches are the same, eventually we were spiritually led to Poynton / Cheadle Hulme Christian Life Fellowship (AOG church). | | | (As in Ismailism it is not easy for outsiders to join and outsiders are most certainly not allowed to see them pray or even enter prayer halls during prayers). |
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http://www.mercedesbenzcar.com/new.htm
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| Â | Ismaili Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Ismailism belongs to the Shi& branch of Islam, and, in common with various Muslim interpretive communities, has been concerned with developing a philosophical discourse to elucidate foundational Qur& and Islamic beliefs and principles. | | | According to this typological view, the epoch of the great prophets mirrors the cosmological paradigm, unfolding to recover the equilibrium and harmony inherent in the divine pattern of creation. | | | Their views represent a consensus that it is inappropriate to treat Ismailism as a marginal school of Islamic thought; rather it constitutes a significant philosophical branch, among others, in Islamic philosophy. |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/i/ismaili.htm
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| | It has come to my attention that the followers of Ismailism believe that Prophet Muhammad (saw) appointed Hazrat Ali as a spiritual leader for all of mankind. | | | Is this a misunderstood belief or was this made up? | | | I was also told that by an Ismaili person that it is only required that u pray 3 times a day..though i find that hard to believe because the Prophet said it was 5 times a day (as they pray in Mecca and Medina etc etc). |
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http://www.islam.tc/ask-imam/questions/1671.html
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| | Those who remained faithful to Ismail, the eldest son, soon evolved the belief that Ismail was endowed with an infallible gift for interpreting the inner meaning of the revelation. | | | Over time it came to stress the importance of the estoeric aspects of the faith over the exoteric. | | | Ismailism developed an understanding of Islam and promoted it through an active missionary system. |
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http://www.execulink.com/~ottertek/taqiya/ismaili.html
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| Â | All.info: Arts and Humanities / Religion and Practices / Ismailism / |
| | All.info: Arts and Humanities / Religion and Practices / Ismailism / | | | You are in: Arts and Humanities / Religion and Practices / Ismailism / | | | Arts and Humanities > Religion and Practices > Ismailism |
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http://all.info/directory/Arts_and_Humanities/Religion_and_Practices/Ismailism
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| Â | Nasir Khusraw [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | For the Ismailis, this guide must be a living person, the Imam of the Time, divinely inspired, infallible, and perfectly capable of providing guidance in spiritual and worldly affairs, who thus serves as a living bridge between the two realms. | | | The following sources elucidate Khusraw’s philosophy: H. Corbin, ‘Nasir-i Khusrau and Iranian Ismailism,’; in The Cambridge History of Iran : Volume 4, ed., R. Frye (Cambridge 1975), pp. |
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| | According to local tradition, the Pamiris were converted to Ismailism in the 11th century by the Persian poet, traveller and philosopher Nasir Khusraw. | | | In the Pamirs, however, a majority of the people profess the Ismaili faith (i.e. | | | However, one of the foremost non-Ismaili authorities on Ismailism, W. Iwanow, of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, writing in 1948, expressed the opinion that "the present Shughnis, Wakhis and others were not yet settled there in Nasir's time. |
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| Â | Khoja [Nizaris] Satpanth Ismailism |
| | The Khojas are headed by the Agha Khan, who has followers in Pakistan, India, Iran, Yemen, and East Africa. | | | Among the Shias of India the Ithna-Asharis are in the majority while the Khojas and Bohras of Western and Central India belong to the two internal divisions of the Isma`ili group of Muslims - the Nizaris [Khojas] with Satpanth Ismailism and the the Musta‘lis [Bohras or Bohri] with Tayyibi Ismailism. |
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| Â | The Importance of Studying Ismailism |
| | Ismailism, as it developed a thousand years ago was not only a religion, i.e., a system of organized inner life of an individual, but also an ideology, a system of social organization. | | | Ismailism must be studied as a whole as regards time and also as regards its different schools and divisions. | | | Different answers may be received, but there are two varieties of these which will predominate. |
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| | The Ismailis in Bahrein and western Iran also refused to recognize the Fatimid claim to the imamate. | | | Upon the appearance of the Fatimit Mahdi in Algeria, Hamdan and his brother-in-law 'Abdan rejected Fatimid claims and withdrew their support, creating a schism in Ismailism. | | | This state organized the nomads of eastern Arabia into a powerful military force that conquered the oasis towns of that area and established a prosperous and egalitarian society. |
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| Â | Majalis-ul Muayyadiya - by Al Muayyad fid-din Shirazi - Life and Lectures of |
| | This sect has developed and spread all over the world through the efforts of a band of Missionaries, who preached and propagated the truth of this sect peacefully and won innumerable converts in all places of the world. | | | Ismailism has been distinguished from all other sects of Islam by being a permanent Missionary sect. | | | Attempts were made by several writers and chronologists to draw a picture of the spiritual, intellectual, literary and political life in Egypt during the Fatimide reign. |
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| | It is to provide a friendly forum for the discussion of the doctrine and practices of these groups. | | | This list is for the discussion of Ismailism and other edge Islamic sects (Druze, Sufi, Moorish Orthodoxy, etc). |
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http://web.onramp.ca/cadd/723aga.htm
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| | On the relationship between religion (din) and da'wa in Ismailism see my article " 'Alam al-din in Ismailism: world of obedience or world of immobility?", BSOAS, 56, 3 (1993), pp. | | | 1990; there are two relatively recent bibliographies on Ismailism, the first, which deals mostly with primary sources is Poonawala, I., Biobibliography of Isma'ili literature. | | | Undena Publications, Malibu 1977; the second, which includes secondary sources is Tajdin, N., A bibliography of Ismailism. |
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http://www.uni-marburg.de/religionswissenschaft/journal/diskus/calderini2.html
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| Â | Recognition of the Imam - Ivanow - Ismailism |
| | with Ismailism, that is to say, of all branches of the Ismaili movement in Islam, | | | All this would be too mystical for early Ismailism with its sober and | | | The hujjat, however, must always be what he really is (ff. |
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http://ismaili.net/Source/0720.html
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| | It is main subject is Nizari Ismaili doctrine and practice, but Bohra's are welcome also (as well as, other Ismaili groups). | | | I wish to extend an invition to all to sub to my moderated ismailism e-mail list. | | | : I wish to extend an invition to all to sub to my moderated ismailism e-mail list. |
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| Â | AddALL.com - Syrian Ismailism: The Ever Living Line of Imamate - A.D. 1100-1260 |
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| | Critical Studies Of Christianity, Islam, Ismailism and other beliefs... | | | Give Us The Courage and The Wisdom To Follow That From Time To Time... | | | Critical in-depth studies of Christianity, Islam, Ismailism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Atheism, Creation |
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http://www.mostmerciful.com/
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| | Short text which deals with some of the ideas Ismailism during the satr period of Alamut |
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http://amazon.ruv.net/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/2YBDYCYZ90WEX
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| | Ismailism, and originated in a castle called Alamut in the mountains of Northern Iran in the 11th century. | | | This sect was said to carry out assassinations of the enemies of the order, or Muslim rulers they believed to be | | | Most assassins appear comfortable enough with their deed to describe it as such publicly, whereas few call themselves terrorists. |
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| | The Ismailis: Their history and doctrines; Farhad Daftary; Cambridge University Press, 1990 (From the point of view of the followers of the Aga Khan) | | | A Short History of the Ismailis: Traditions of a Muslim Community; Farhad Daftary; Edinburgh University Press, 1998 (A history of Ismailism from the point of view of the followwers of the Aga Khan) |
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http://omniknow.com/essays/Ismailism.html
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| | He has written over 100 books in Urdu and many of these have now been translated into English, French, Farsi (Persian) and Gujurati. | | | ISW was established as an organization to promote research into the esoteric philosophy of Islam with particular reference to the Qur'an. | | | The patron, Professor Allamah Nasir al-Din Nasir Hunzai, is a prolific writer on esoteric philosophy, particularly on Ismailism. |
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http://www.systemz.dial.pipex.com/homepage.htm
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| | : Ismailism list is a mailing list for the study of Ismailism in all of its forms with a special emphais on Nizari Ismaili : Muslim thought and practice. | | | This will be a : moderated list and personal attacks will not be allowed, nor messages forwarded. | | | Ismailism list is a mailing list for the study of Ismailism in all of its forms with a special emphais on Nizari Ismaili |
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| Â | 'UNDERSTANDING ISMAILISM', Section Two |
| | Out of the dozen or so recorded, below are brief accounts of a few the detailed accounts of which are recorded by A. Chunara in "Noorum-Mubin" (Gujrati), and in part by Abualy in "A Brief History of Ismailism" under the chapters ‘Imam Shamshuddin Muhammad', ‘Imam Kassam Shah’ and ‘Pir Shamsuddin’, respectively. | | | Going through the history of Ismaili Pirs I have found more legends ascribed to Pir Shamshuddi’n (popularly known as Pir Shams) than to any other Pir. | | | Pir Shams had come to the city of Multan, Punjab, Pakistan (formerly India). |
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http://www.geocities.com/Islamawareness/Ismailis/underis2.htm
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| | Please See Ismaili For Further Information about Ismailism. |
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| | Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can't be done. | | | A CRITICAL IN-DEPTH STUDY OF CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM, ISMAILISM & ATHEISM. |
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| | * "The Philosophical Significance of the Imam in Ismailism," by Sami N. Makarem Studia Islamica XXVII (1967): 41-53. | | | * "Introduction to Ismailism" By Dr. Sheikh Khodr Hamawi Beirut, 1970. | | | * "Nasir-i Khusraw and Ismailism" by W. Ivanow Ismaili Society Series B, 5. |
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