The Khoja Ismailis of the Indian subcontinent have spoken two languages in a mildly unstable diglossic relationship for centuries. From the mid-nineteenth century to the 1970s there was a steady, large scale immigration of Khoja Ismailis to East Africa. The changing situation in the subcontinent along with the experience in Africa resulted in many of these people learning three additional langu...

Hasan Sabbah liderliğinde İran’da Alamût merkezli faaliyet gösteren Nizarî İsmâilîlerinin propagandasını yaydığı ikinci bölge Suriye bölgesi olmuştur. ve halefleri bölgesine çok sayıda daî göndererek bölgede zaman içinde yapılanmışlardır. gönderilen ilk daîsi El Hekim Müneccim, Selçuklu Meliki Tâcüddevle Tutuş’un oğullarından Halep Rıdvân’ın desteğini alarak Halep’te ortaya çıkmıştır. Haçlılara...

The paper discusses musical performances used at mourning ceremonies by the Ismaili Muslims in mountainous Gorno–Badakhshan province of Tajikistan (hereafter GBAO). Shī’a Ismailis make up most population this province, compared to a majority Sunni Muslim rest Tajikistan. These have lived remote for centuries and therefore evolved their own unique culture that is different from Tajikistan. ...

during the reign of the seljuks (431–590), a considerable number of persian poets and writers lived in their territory. reviewing the lives of the kings, and that of their ministers and other politicians and dignitaries of seljuks ear, this article tries to show how much each of these individuals had supported persian literature.  at the next step, the patrons are classified in six categories: ...