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Africa Federation Archives – Ithna-Asheri Students’ Union of East Africa at Aligarh Muslim University, India -1965 to 1974

Africa Federation Archives – Ithna-Asheri Students’ Union of East Africa at Aligarh Muslim University, India – 1965 to 1974 – French (PDF, 620KB)

Salvation and Suffering in Ottoman Stories of the Prophets

Introduction: salvation history and stories of the prophets The Islamic genre of the stories of the prophets (qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ) derives from narrative exegesis of the various references to biblical and Arabian prophets in the Qurʾān.

Includes a discussion of Fuẓūlī Baghdādī (d. 963/1556).

Africa Federation

Africa Federation Archives – Haji Fazul Cassam Chenai – The Early Settlers of Khoja Shia Ithna-Asheri in Madagascar Haji Fazul Cassam Chenai was born in Surat, India on 15th July 1877. Since his…

The Evolution of Khojā identity in South Asia – A literature review | Parpia | Interdisziplinäre Zeitschrift für Südasienforschung

The Evolution of Khojā identity in South Asia – A literature review

Buddha or Yūdhāsaf?

Images of the Hidden Imām in al-Ṣadūq’s Kamāl al-dīn Introduction This paper presents a study of one of the earliest Twelver Shi’i works on the occultation of the Twelfth Imām, Kamāl al-dīn wa-tamām al-niʿmah (“The Perfection of Religion and the Completion of Blessing,” hereafter Kamāl al-dīn) by Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad b.

Licit Magic: The Life and Letters of al-Ṣāḥib b. ʿAbbād (d. 385/995)

Biographical note Maurice A. Pomerantz, Ph.D. (2010), University of Chicago, is Assistant Professor of Literature at New York University, Abu Dhabi. He is the editor of The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning (Brill, 2016).

Mazda Publishers – Investigations Explication the States of Existants

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Sabine Schmidtke,”Preserving, Studying, and Democratizing Access to the World Heritage of Islamic Manuscripts: The Zaydī Tradition,” Chroniques du manuscrit au Yémen 23 [nouvelle série 4] (2017), pp. 103-166.

The complete issue can be accessed (open access) via <http://www.cdmy.org/cmy/cmy23.pdf>

Safavid Studies Journal

Safavid Studies Journal (SSJ)

CfP: Articles for “Journal of Safavid Studies”

This academic journal is published by the Safavid Studies Center, University of Isfahan, Iran. The journal welcomes all articles that are related to any aspect of Safavid Studies. This journal aims to provide a scholarly platform for critical and informed articles with a historical approach.

The Persian-Portuguese Encounter in Hormuz: Orientalism Reconsidered

In 2015, the quincentennial commemoration of the Portuguese arrival on the island of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf (1515-1622) revealed the underlying presupposition among Iranians that the Portuguese presence on the island was the harbinger of a long-term pattern of western imperialism.