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Submission to Global Centre for pluralism - Briefing paper - Pluralism and Education: Reframing Human Development for an Interdependent World

Dear Chair, His Highness the Aga Khan, Members of the Board of Directors, Director General, and Members of the Executive Team,

I hope this message finds you ...

Summary of the Presentation by Ms. Amrita Shodhan

Aga Khan Khoja Case (1866)

Title: Impact of Colonial Governance on Ismaili Religious Authority

Ms. Amrita Shodhan, a Hindu scholar and researcher, was invited by the Ginan Association to share her research on the historic 1866 Aga Khan Khoja Case ...

The history of Nizari Ismailis in Syria dates to the Ninth Century*

“Syria has been ruled by numerous empires including the Seleucid (312 – 63BCE), Byzantine (476 – 608BCE), Umayyad (661-750CE), Abbasid (1183 -1260), Fatimid (1003-1038), Ayyubids (1171-1260) among many others, leaving their ...

A Farman from Aga Khan II - The Noor of Imams is one.

“ TODAY IN HISTORY - 1885, May 14: The Aga Khan II declared that his son Sultan Muhammad Shah will succeed him. According to an old manuscript of a certain Khoja Hansraj Sunderji that on May 14, 1885, the Aga Khan II had said to the Bombay ...

A Farman from Aga Khan II - The Noor of Imams is one.

“ TODAY IN HISTORY - 1885, May 14: The Aga Khan II declared that his son Sultan Muhammad Shah will succeed him. According to an old manuscript of a certain Khoja Hansraj Sunderji that on May 14, 1885, the Aga Khan II had said to the Bombay ...

Re: Clarification, Confirmation and Expeditious Communication of Authentic Farmans and Constitution to all the Jamat globally - Still withheld

# 1. Introduction

1.1 I write respectfully to place on record a summary of key facts and understandings from Farmans relating to authentic Farmans, Ginans ...

Requests to IIS cc to LIF “relate to the transmission, accessibility, authentication, and implementation of the Imam’s guidance (Farmans), which leaders & Jamat are under Bay’ah, morally and institutionally obliged to uphold.

We are living in a wider global environment increasingly shaped by ...

The Institute of Ismaili Studies STEP cohort return from London: Graduates “from Syria to Pakistan, & from India and beyond” will teach the #Ismaili #faith and practices in Jamatkhana-based religious education classes 🌏 (REC - BUI)

An urgent constructive question arises:

If the essence & source ...

July 1945, Mawlana Sultan Mohammed Shah - Aga Khan III, speaking at the Ismaili Association Conference in India, conveyed in this Farman, the deeper spiritual foundations of Ismaili thought and the responsibility of missionaries not only to understand but also to teach the faith clearly and ...

Pluralism: Ongoing Gap Between the Goal to Teach it and Actualisation

AKF Learning Hub together with partners including CSM-STAND, USAID and the Global Centre for Pluralism - Centre mondial du pluralisme, has produced pluralism-related awareness resources and toolkits.

Examples include ...

Consolidated Farman Calls to Action
Integrated Guidance from the Farmans Mubarak
Youth Mulaqat & Didars
Montreal, Canada — 26, 27 & 28 March 2026

What Mawlana Hazar Imam Is Asking all the Jamat To Do Now and Going Forward

1. Recognise and Honour the Sacred Bond with the Imam Understand bay’ah as a ...

Hazar Imam has asked us to read and understand Farmans and In addition, to read books and materials from our institutions and, to also seek knowledge and understanding independently

Imam would never say that Farmans—divine guidance conveyed through the Noor of the Imam for the Jamat by Allah’s will ...

A summary and a short video clip about this court case. The other two unprecedented cases are the Haji Bibi case and the copyright lawsuit in Canada in 2010.


khoja case


The case was decided by Sir Joseph Arnould in the Bombay High Court.

Key Findings:

1. Khojas are Shia Imami Ismailis
* The ...

The Fatimid Legacy

A Presentation by the Institute of Ismaili Studies

Delivered on 8 January 2026

Legacy Is Not Only Heritage — It Also Teaches Us to Learn the Lessons



She shared new evidence and regarding the fall and abolition she shared the following and the political role and takeover ...

Understanding faith of Shia Ismaili Nizari Islam

The Role and Authority of the Imam and the source of Farmans blessings and mercy

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The following is a summary from the excellent video presentation of about 1 hour - link below

In the Ismaili faith, the Imam is the living, ever-present bearer of ...

[God] has not left the earth without an Imam on it for the community, who states the truth and who serves as the proof.” Qadi al-Nu'man
Posted Tweet by The Ismaili IIS on X


[God] has not left the earth without an Imam on it for the community,

Do you mean, Imam is only for a particular ...

Bridging the Gap: The STEP Programme and the educating & Transmission of the Ismaili Faith to the Ismaili Community globally by and through the IIS and ITREB

The Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS) Secondary Teacher Education Programme (STEP) represents a significant and commendable investment in ...

The Ismaili Anthem & Flag — Understanding the Meaning Behind the Symbols

The video below captures the recitation of the Ismaili Anthem with excerpts of recent and ongoing Didar visits of Aga Khan V the 50th Ismaili Imam

It is recited in its original Gujarati. For many the words may not be ...

I have recently reflected on a broader conceptual question regarding the operationalisation of pluralism in education and development frameworks:

https://lnkd.in/e9nA6bZq

In that context, I also reviewed the Schools2030 report:
https://lnkd.in/eSXD6yBg

Schools2030 is an initiative of the Aga Khan ...

Subject: Investigative Reflection on LIF, Leadership, Pluralism & the Ismaili Constitution...



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“ The Ismaili community is highly diverse and lives across dozens of countries. As Muslims, our faith teaches us to care deeply about pluralism. For us, it is not an abstract idea but a ...

Pluralism, Truth, and the Crisis of Our Time

Pluralism is a part of the ethics of the Ismaili Muslim faith

“We live in a ‘post-fact’ society. Yes, a post-fact society. It’s not just that everyone feels entitled to his or her own opinion—that’s a good thing. But the problem comes when people feel ...

[God] has not left the earth without an Imam on it for the community, who states the truth and who serves as the proof.” Qadi al-Nu'man
Posted Tweet by The Ismaili IIS on X

Qadi al-Nu‘man, a leading #Ismaili jurist & theologian, under 4 #Fatimid Imams—from al-Mahdi (founder) to al-Mu‘izz.
He ...

In the Ismaili Muslim faith, prayers of remembrance, worship, supplication, guidance, and mercy are directed through the ever present light of the Imam of the Time.

This is not shirk - not an act of associating partners with God, but rather an expression of a divinely ordained guidance from the ...

“ You are all my Dais”

Farman “Those who served the Imam historically, were given the title of “dai”. You are all dais today — all of you. So you are all representing the Imam in your lives, in your work, in your practice. And I give you special blessings for success.… Those of you who are ...

“Those who served the Imam historically, were given the title of “dai”. You are all dais today — all of you. So you are all representing the Imam in your lives, in your work, in your practice. And I give you special blessings for success.…
Those of you who are interested in history, read up upon the ...

Here is a much deeper analysis and a reflective understanding of the Didar we just had with Shah Rahim Al-Husseini:

What you experienced at the Didar can be understood not as a collection of separate instructions, but as a single, integrated way of living—one that begins internally and then ...

Canada Didar Farman – 30 March 2026, Toronto - Mowlana Shah Rahim Hazar Imam

Summary of Farman Mubarak to All the Jamat

“I would like you to read ALL the Farmans that I will make to my Canadian Jamat. Please do not focus only on the issues that I will address today.”

“To my Jamat here, to those ...

The following may be helpful in understanding its essence.

Although this text is referred to in various sources, the original Girbhavali (Gir Bavali Chopdi) of Pir Sadruddin is not widely available today

🌌 Understanding Girbhavali

Girbhavali teaches that the human being is not merely physical ...

A Physical special Gift For Everyone From Hazar Imam❤️💚❤️💚🌟🌟 Canada

“You will receive a tasbih from Me, a gift from your Imam to each one of you personally.

I know that you all have a tasbih, maybe many tasbihs, but let this one remind you of today.

Let it be a material reminder that I am ...

This institution and instrument, is a part of the Ismaili constitution, which Aga Khan has said must be read, understood, & shared by all Ismailis and is freely available to all Ismailis - Link to rekated constitution and Firmans (decrees) of Imâm Aga Khan http://ismaili.net/timeline/2018/101 ...