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Ismaili Conciliation and Arbitration: NCAB Canada Submission to Ontario Arbitration Review

His Highness Prince Aga Khan Shia Imami Ismaili
National Conciliation and Arbitration Board for Canada
Submission to Ontario Arbitration Review
September 10, 2004

Please see attached PDF for full text

Ismaili Missionaries

The impediment, which belonged to the inner nature of the preaching of Islam was connected with its conservatism of forms. When the preaching started amongst the heathen Arabs, it was easy indeed to demand that they would learn the new forms of worship and accept the new scriptures in the Arabic language. Perhaps it was not so difficult in the case of Semitic peoples who lived in close touch with the Arabs.

Ismailis in Russia

In Russia, or U.S.S.R., Ismaili villages are only found in the valley of the river Panj which, after its confluence with Wakhsh, or Wakhshab, forms the mighty Oxus or Amu-Darya river of Central Asia. These Ismailis are often wrongly called "Pamir Ismailis", not because they inhabit the plateau of the "Roof of the World", Pamir, but because they reside on its borders, in the gorges which open into the valley of Panj. Only few Qirgniz nomad tribes who with their flocks roam the cold and arid expanse of the Pamir tableland, deserve to be called the real inhabitants of the place.

Jamatkhana

By: Rai Shamshudin G. Tejpar

'Jamat Khana' means 'A house designated as a place of worship in which a congregation gathers for prayers'.

'Jamat Khana' for us also means 'House of ALI and NABI' for it is our faith that the NOOR (LIGHT) of Hazar Imam is present there is all It's Glory.

Holy Qur'an says: -

"(This Lamp is found) in house which Allah hath allowed to be exalted and that His name shall be remembered therein. Therein do offer praise to Him at morning and evening".
Sura Nur (XXIV) - Ayat 36.

(From 'Glorious Qur'an' translated by Marmaduke Pickthall)

Kharadhar - Oldest Jamat in Karachi

KARACHI, the biggest city of Pakistan is the Alexander’s haven, the Liverpool of Sub-continent or the Croydon of the East. It is the only city in the world, which became known over thirty times. Crochey, Krotchey Bay, Carnjee, Koratchey, Currachee, Kurrachee and Karachi are its notable appellations, the last however being an official according to The Imperial Gazetteer of India. When Iran did the Greeks under Alexander conquer in the 4th century B.C., the whole Sind came under his supremacy.

Khojki Books Accessible through the Heritage Society

LIST OF PUBLISHED KHOJKI BOOKS

Around 110 books were published in Khojki. Copies of all of them were still in existence in 1989 at the ITREB Library in Bombay Several copies of each were preserved in a closed metal cupboard.

Here is a partial list of the books available for reference only at the Heritage Society:

1.

TITLE: Bhajan Tchitamni (Bhag 1)

PUBLISHER: Hassan Bhay Ladha Khaki

PROCESS: Litho

SIZE: 20 x 13 cm

PAGES: 114

DATE: 1897 A.D. (1st August)

PLACE: Bombay - Gat Pirsad Printing Press

PRICE: 1 roupie

TAPSILO: On pages 108 - 112

La Phénoménologie Herméneutique d'un "Philosophe de la Métahistoire" Henri Corbin (1903-1978)

LA PHÉNOMÉNOLOGIE HERMÉNEUTIQUE D'UN "PHILOSOPHE DE LA
MÉTAHISTOIRE" HENRY CORBIN (1903-1978) (1)

Ali Alibay et Diane Steigerwald

In The Qur'ân and Philosophical Reflections, p. 77-96.
Jakarta: Indonesian Academic Society XXI, 1998.

 

LE SERMON D’Al-GHADIR

LE SERMON D’Al-GHADIR

Le dernier sermon adressé par le Prophète(S)
à l’humanité, à Ghadir Khom

Traduction : Ahmed Mustafa - juin 2005


Au Nom d’Allah, le Clément, le Miséricordieux

Eloges et Reconnaissance

Mowlana Sultan Muhammed Shah: The Devoted Champion Of Islam

When "The Times", London, made some unfair allegations against Islam and the Muslims in a leading article in October 1951, Mowlana Sultan Muhammed Shah sent a spirited reply to the newspaper, which was published in its issue of November 6, 1951. He explained that it was because of the spirit of tolerance of Islam that even the smallest Christian and Jewish minorities survived and kept all their doctrines during the thousand years of Muslim rule.

My First Meeting With the Ismailis in Persia

I came in touch with the Ismailis for the first time in Persia, in February 1912. The world was quite different then. No one imagined that the Great World War I, with all its misery and suffering, was just round the corner. Persia was still living in her ancestral mediaeval style, and her affairs were largely going on in their traditional ways, as they were going on for centuries.

Pandavo no Parab - An Unpublished Granth

By Nazim Daredia

THE WORK:

This Granth, also known as Pandave jo Parab, was composed by Sayyed Imam Shah and contains 578 verses. It has virtually the same theme as Buddh Avatar of Pir Sadardin. The Granth continues the story of the Pandavas after the win the war against their cousins turned enemies the Kurus. Concurrently it narrates the coming of the ninth Avatar in the form which came to be known as Buddh who saves the Pandavas from deviating from their true faith.

PREVIOUS EDITIONS:

Pensée pour l'éblouissant Golden Jubilee Darbar de Paris

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Voilà un an, on célébrait le dernier Darbar du Golden Jubilee au cœur de Paris.

Proposal to Encode the Khojki Script in ISO/IEC 10646

Full text can be downloaded from the pdf attachment below.

Contents

Proposal Summary Form i

1 Introduction 1

2 Background 1

3 Characters Proposed 4

3.1 Character Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.2 Basis for Character Set and Glyph Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.3 Characters Not Proposed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

4 TheWriting System 7

Reading Global Islam Through Messianic Renewal in Dasavatar

PDF file of the complete article is attached to the bibliography link.

RÉFLEXION SUR L'IMÂMAT DE AARON, ELÉAZAR ET PHIHÉÈS



"L'Imam ne disparaît jamais... L'Imam doit être présent dans ce monde pour guider Ses fidèles en tout temps, pour leur bien, pour les mener au Droit Chemin et pour le maintien de l'Imâmat."
Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah

Cutchh Nagalpûr, 28-11-1903.

Réflexion Sur L'Imâmat De Melchisédech Et Tèrah

Le but de cette étude est de montrer et d'essayer de résoudre certaines contradictions apparentes qui paraissent lors de l'analyse de la lignée de l'Imâmat.

Religion of My Ancestors - Islam

The origins of man's religious aspirations are to be found in what we nowadays call science. Those who have studied mythology and primitive psychology know that magic in various forms started various trains of thought in primitive man by which he achieved what seemed to him to be rational accounts of the natural phenomena around him.

Satpanth Literature in Khojki Manuscripts

By Mumtaz Ali Tajddin Sadiq Ali

INTRODUCTION

Very little is known today about the early history of Nizari Ismaili Da'wa in the Indian
subcontinent. Except for a few brief mentions in the writings of that period, most of our
information regarding the preaching of Ismailism, the development of Ginanic literature and the
Pirs and Sayyeds who composed them is internal, that is, it is mentioned in their works. While
there is a general agreement amongst the scholars that the works that have survived to the

Some Guidelines for Cataloguing Khojki Manuscripts

By Dr Ali S. Asani, Associate Professor of Indo-Muslim culture, Harvard University

The following are some of the guidelines used to catalogue the collection of Ismaili literature in Indic languages found in the Harvard university library. The collection donated to the Library's Middle Eastern Department, consists of manuscripts, printed texts as well as lithographs in several scripts including Khojki, Gujarati and Devanagari. In 1986, the University received a grant from the National Endowment

The Concept of God Beyond God in the Khat Nirinjan of Pir Sadardin

[Full text is available for download in the attached pdf.]

A personal exegesis by Nagib Tajdin

Extract:

"There were many ways to look at the beginning of this work. One way would have been
to analyze the Love Relation between Brahma and its Origin. The other approach would
have been to see it as an explanation of the Eternity and the Pre-Eternity through the
various Cycles of divine time that lead to the appearance of Brahma the Creator. A third
way to look at his would be to take it as a work that defines what happened between the

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