The Memoirs of Aga Khan
Author : Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah (agha khan)
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,70 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Aga Khans
ISBN :
Author : Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah (agha khan)
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,70 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Aga Khans
ISBN :
Author : Naoroji M. Dumasia
Publisher : Readworthy
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 14,12 MB
Release :
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9350181525
His Highness the Aga Khan, Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah was a direct descendant of Prophet Muhammad and the spiritual head of millions of Ismailis living across the world. He was a statesman with an international reputation. Providing rich insights into the multifaceted personality of the Aga Khan, this book explores something of what he had done and said as well as how he had achieved a position for himself which had been rivaled by none of his contemporaries. Tracing his descent from Ali who married Fatimah, the only daughter of the Prophet Muhammad by his first wife Khadijah, it describes his ancestry, with a special focus on the lives and achievements of his grandfather and father the Aga Khan Hussain Ali Shah and Aga Khan Aly Shah. Also, it examines the role of Aga khan in India's struggle for independence, as also his contributions toward world peace and educational development.
Author : Aga Khan
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 1918
Category : India
ISBN :
Author : Teena Purohit
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,12 MB
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0674071581
An overwhelmingly Arab-centric perspective dominates the West’s understanding of Islam and leads to a view of this religion as exclusively Middle Eastern and monolithic. Teena Purohit presses for a reorientation that would conceptualize Islam instead as a heterogeneous religion that has found a variety of expressions in local contexts throughout history. The story she tells of an Ismaili community in colonial India illustrates how much more complex Muslim identity is, and always has been, than the media would have us believe. The Aga Khan Case focuses on a nineteenth-century court case in Bombay that influenced how religious identity was defined in India and subsequently the British Empire. The case arose when a group of Indians known as the Khojas refused to pay tithes to the Aga Khan, a Persian nobleman and hereditary spiritual leader of the Ismailis. The Khojas abided by both Hindu and Muslim customs and did not identify with a single religion prior to the court’s ruling in 1866, when the judge declared them to be converts to Ismaili Islam beholden to the Aga Khan. In her analysis of the ginans, the religious texts of the Khojas that formed the basis of the judge’s decision, Purohit reveals that the religious practices they describe are not derivations of a Middle Eastern Islam but manifestations of a local vernacular one. Purohit suggests that only when we understand Islam as inseparable from the specific cultural milieus in which it flourishes do we fully grasp the meaning of this global religion.
Author : Soumen Mukherjee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 12,17 MB
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1107154081
This book explores the evolution of a Shia Ismaili identity in late colonial South Asia.
Author : Aga Khan IV
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre Limited
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 19,84 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781553653660
In Where Hope Takes Root, the Aga Khan sets out the principles that inform his vision. Democracy, he says, must be nurtured in ways that are practical and flexible. Pluralism must be embraced, so that it exists both in fact and in spirit. A diverse, engaged civil society will advance these values. Education is also a critical component, not only in developing countries but in the West. Until the Western world acquires a deeper knowledge of Muslim civilizations, His Highness asserts, no truly meaningful dialogue can take place. In a world too often divided along economic, political, ethnic and religious lines, the Aga Khan's words are welcome. Eloquent, inspiring and deeply challenging, they express the hope - and the conviction - that profound change is possible.
Author : Farhad Daftary
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 31,48 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 081086164X
The Ismaili Muslims, who belong to the Shia branch of Islam, live in over 25 different countries around the world, mainly in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Their history has typically been linked to the history of the various countries in which they live, but the worldwide community is united under Prince Karim Aga Khan, the spiritual leader and 49th Imam of the Ismaili Muslims. Few fields of Islamic studies have witnessed as drastic a change as Ismaili studies, due in part to the recent discovery of numerous historical texts, and author Farhad Daftary makes extensive use of these new sources in the Historical Dictionary of the Ismailis. This comprehensive new reference work is the first of its kind on the Ismailis and presents a summary of the findings of modern scholarship on the Ismaili Shia Muslims and different facets of their heritage. The dictionary covers all phases of Ismaili history as well as the main doctrines of the community. It includes an introductory chapter, which provides a broad historical survey of the Ismailis, followed by alphabetical entries on all major aspects of the community, such as key figures, institutions, traditions, and doctrines. It also contains a chronology, genealogical tables, a glossary, and a substantial bibliography. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Ismailis.
Author : Mohamed Haddad
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 24,92 MB
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3030367746
This book examines the evolution of Islam in our modern world. The renowned Tunisian scholar Mohamed Haddad traces the history of the reformist movement and explains recent events related to the Islamic religion in Muslim countries and among Muslim minorities across the world. In scholarly terms, he evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of theological-political renovation, neo-reformism, legal reformism, mystical reformism, radical criticism, comprehensive history and new approaches within the study of Islam. The book brings to life the various historical, sociological, political and theological challenges and debates that have divided Muslims since the 19th century. The first two chapters address failed reforms in the past and introduce the reader to classical reformism and to Mohammed Abduh. Haddad ultimately proposes a non-confessional definition of religious reform, reinterpreting and adjusting a religious tradition to modern requirements. The second part of the book explores perspectives on contemporary Islam, the legacy of classical reformism and new paths forward. It suggests that the fundamentalism embodied in Wahhabism and Muslim Brotherhood has failed. Traditional Islam no longer attracts either youth or the elites. Mohamed Haddad shows how this paves the way for a new reformist departure that synthesizes modernism and core Islamic values.
Author : Diana Miserez
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,44 MB
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Environmentalists
ISBN : 9781910878880
Author : Philip Jodidio
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 12,3 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
The prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture recognises projects that benefit the Muslim world for their excellence in contemporary design, community improvement and development, restoration, re-use and area conservation. This anthology presents award winning projects from universities and historic restoration programmes.