Important Public Notice:
We are pleased to welcome visitors to Aga Khan Centre for a variety of live, hybrid and online events.
Our events page is updated regularly so please do come back and check what events we are running. Most events will need to be booked in advance and we ask out of curtesy, if you are no longer able to attend a booking, please do notify us or cancel where you booked, so your place may be given to someone else.
With regret, it is important to note, we do not hire out any spaces at the Aga Khan Centre for external / private events.
We thank you for your understanding and look forward to welcoming you to Aga Khan Centre soon.
Morality and Religion: Perspectives from Literature, Sociology and Philosophy
This lecture, which grew from Professor Ahmad Sadri's concerns about the place of religion and morality in post-Islamic-Republic Iran, starts with an exploration of the origins and functions of religion and morality using insights from evolutionary science, sociology, and philosophy.
26 April, 2024
The Institute of Ismaili Studies
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Book launch: “Women, Households and the Hereafter in the Qur’an”
Join authors Dr Karen Bauer and Professor Feras Hamza as they introduce their latest publication, "Women, Households, and the Hereafter in the Qur’an: A Patronage of Piety".
1 May, 2024
The Institute of Ismaili Studies
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Understanding Generative AI and Prompting
Mohammad Keyhani discusses why Generative AI represents one of humanity's greatest technological leaps and why it is displaying surprising "emergent behaviours" not previously expected of AI systems.
2 May, 2024
The Institute of Ismaili Studies
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Between Zulaykha and Joseph: Shiʿi Allegoresis of Surat Yusuf
Surprising little has been written about exegesis of Surat Yusuf, the Qurʾan’s “greatest of narration” (ahsan al-qasas), and certainly the longest and most substantial narrative in the Qurʾan. The little that has been written about Shiʿi interpretations of the Surat Yusuf has generally taken as its starting point Sunni exegesis, Jewish exegesis of the Hebrew Bible, or both
9 May, 2024
The Institute of Ismaili Studies
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Spirituality – the Inner and Outer Landscape
Spirituality in its authentic sense transforms the nature of human beings and unveils for them the spirituality with which the natural world, untainted by man, is imbued. The reduction of nature to a vast machine in the modern West is a consequence of the eclipse of authentic spirituality resulting from the advent of modernism. This lecture by Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr is organised by Temenos Academy.
11 June, 2024
The Institute of Ismaili Studies
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