Keywords: Ismaili,油Shia,油taqiyyaPrecautionary dissimulation of one’s religious beliefs, especially in time of persecution or danger, a practice especially adopted by the Shi’i Muslims.,油Imamah,油ImamAli,油Caliphate, Fatimid, Abbasid, Ahl alBayt,油dawa,油sharia,油dawr al-satrLit. period of concealment. Al-Q畍朝 al-Nu平mn (d. 974) uses the term dawr al-satr to refer to the period of around 150 years in which the Ismaili imams were hidden from…,油AlamutFortress of the Nizari Ismailis in northern Iran, which fell to the Mongols in 654 AH/1256 CE., Nizari, Mustali, Zaydi,油tawhid,油tawil,油hadith,油batin,油zahir,油haqaiq, ilm,油al-AzharA major mosque and institution of learning founded in Cairo by the Fatimid Imam-caliph al-Mu平izz (d. 975).,油wazier, alQahira,油mahdi,油IfriqiyaMediaeval Muslim name for modern-day Tunisia; also the area where the Fatimids founded their state in the early tenth century.,油dai,油ImamJafar al-Sadiq,油Pir, Nasir-i Khusraw,油ginan, Safavid,油Aga KhanA title granted by the Shah of Persia to the then Ismaili Imam in 1818 and inherited by each of his successors to the Imamate.,油nur, qiyamah, talim, ulama.
The history of Ismailism is best understood as the embodiment of one response, among others, to the message contained in the Islamic revelation.
Author
Professor Azim Nanji
Azim Nanji is currently Special Advisor to the Provost of the, and a member of the Board of Directors of thein Ottawa, a joint partnership between His Highness the Aga Khan and the Government of Canada. He has held many prestigious academic and administrative appointments, most recently as Senior Associate Director of the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at, where he was also lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies. From 1998 to 2008, Professor Nanji served as Director of the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London.
Professor Nanji has published numerous books and articles on religion, Islam and Ismailism, including:The Nizari Ismaili Tradition(1976),油The Muslim Almanac(1996),油Mapping Islamic Studies(1997) andThe Historical Atlas of Islam(with M. Ruthven) (2004) andThe Dictionary of Islam(with Razia Nanji), Penguin 2008. In addition, he has contributed numerous shorter studies and articles in journals and collective volumes includingThe Encyclopaedia of Islam,油Encyclopaedia Iranica,油Oxford Encyclopaedia of the Modern Islamic World, andA Companion to Ethics. He was the Associate Editor for the revised Second Edition ofThe Encyclopaedia of Religion.
Within the, he has served as a member of the task force for the(AKU-ISMC) and Vice Chair of the Madrasa-based Early Childhood Education Programme in East Africa. He served as a member of the Steering Committee of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1998, 2001 and 2016.