Mawlana Hazar Imam: “The roots we inherit from our history…are a great source of strength and joy and inspiration”
“A thousand years ago, my forefathers, the Fatimid Imam-Caliphs of Egypt, founded Al-Azhar University and the Academy of Knowledge in
Short articles that I have compiled on Ismaili history and Muslim civilisations, as well as extracts from Mawlana Hazar Imam's speeches on various topics
“A thousand years ago, my forefathers, the Fatimid Imam-Caliphs of Egypt, founded Al-Azhar University and the Academy of Knowledge in
Jawdhar (d. 973), a Fatimid courtier and confidante of the first four Fatimid Imam-Caliphs who ruled in North Africa (910-
On January 4, 910, the eleventh Ismaili Imam Abu Muhammad Abd Allah, who took on the titles of al-imam al-mahdi
‘Say: I ask you for no reward, save love of the near of kin’ (Quran 42: 23). Love for Imam
The fifteenth Ismaili Imam and the fifth Fatimid Caliph Al-Aziz succeeded his father to the Imamat in December 975 (Daftay,
The Ismaili scholar and author Idris Imad al-Din (d. 1468 CE) was the chief da’i of the Yemeni Ismaili da’wa, descended
Named after the Prophet’s daughter, the Fatimids, Mawlana Hazar Imam’s ancestors, established their empire in 909 in North Africa when
In 297 AH/909 CE, Imam al-Mahdi established the Fatimid caliphate in North Africa. The dynasty was named after Fatima, the Prophet’s
Imam Abu Tamim Ma’add succeeded his father to the Imamat and Fatimid caliphate on March 7, 953 1 at age of twenty-one,
The foremost Ismali jurist and founder of Fatimid Ismaili legal system, al-Qadi al-Nu’man was born in 903 in Qayrawan, North