History, Philosophy and Religious Studies

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The Department of History, Philosophy and Religious Studies is part of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Our faculty and students explore ideas, beliefs, and the development of human societies. The department offers majors and minors at the undergraduate level and it makes a significant contribution to the MA in Eurasian Studies.Our trans-disciplinary department is committed to pursuing excellence in research and teaching in all of its many areas of expertise. We believe that teaching and research must go hand-in-hand. All courses are therefore led by dedicated experts at the forefront of their fields.

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    The Fatimid Legacy and the Foundation of the Modern Nizari Ismaili Imamate
    (I. B. Tauris., 2017) Beben, Daniel; Daftary, Farhad; Jiwa, Shainool
    The Fatimid era is ubiquitous today in the discourse of the Nizari Ismaili imamate. Yet this was not always the case. As with other societies and religious communities the world over, the arrangement and presentation of history in the Ismaili tradition has evolved in the course of time, with new historiographical agendas and subjects of emphasis emerging or receding in response to changes in the political and social contexts. In this chapter the place of the Fatimids in the cultural memory of the Nizari Ismailis in the post-Mongol era will be explored. 2 It will be argued that the emphasis placed on the Fatimid era in present-day Nizari discourse is a relatively recent development, rooted in the dynamic changes that occurred in the social and political context of the community in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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