The Aga Khan institutions are understood not as hidden sovereigns, but as products of a long diasporic history in which ...

The British artichect reflects on being tasked with planning the world’s seventh Ismaili Centre, and maintaining Islamic architectural identity in an American context. The minority Nizari Ismaili ...

Aim To evaluate near-infrared (NIR) autofluorescence (AF) in patients with geographic atrophy (GA) secondary to age-related macular degeneration and to investigate the origin of the signal by in vivo ...

Lambsar Castle, representing the gargantuan castle in the popular ‘Assassin’s Creed’ franchise, has yielded stunning astrolabe tile fragments during excavations. Located in the Central Alburz ...

When Saladin sat down to supper in the spring of 1175, he was already one of the most significant figures in the Islamic world. The former commander of the Fatimid armies in Egypt had, within a decade ...

GILGIT: Renowned Russian climber Denis Urubko and his wife Maria Cardell successfully summited Nanga Parbat (8,126m) in alpine style while also charting a new route for ascent. Mr Urubko, with his ...

My two closest pals and I recently reaffirmed our buddyhood that has endured for a half-century. We performed the septuagenarian ritual of comparing our physical ailments and general decline, but we ...

(ANALYSIS) Prince Karim Aga Khan, who died on Feb. 4, served as the religious leader of Ismaili Muslims around the world since being appointed as the 49th hereditary imam in 1957. He came to be known ...

“The Imam is dead, long live the Imam!” With these words, Prince Aly Khan, the man who would have been Imam, embraced his son, the 20-year-old Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, and solemnly acknowledged his ...

Prince Karim Aga Khan IV passed away in Lisbon on February 4 after having held the Imamate of the Nizari Ismaili community, as the 49th Mawlana Hazrat Imam, since 1957. As far as I know, the Narendra ...