Ismaili Library

This Ismaili Library is a vast collection of online Books, Articles, Religious Texts, Ginans, Qasidas, Translations, Waezes, Book Reviews, Topics, all about ismailism, with powerful search interfaces. It is the first and largest ismaili database.

SACRED LITERATURE - GINANS

Extensive and Searchable information and texts of Ismaili sacred Literature such as Ginans, Granths, etc.
READ ABOUT GINANS AND GRANTHS
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SEARCH GINAN TRANSLATIONS
SEARCH GINAN AUDIO
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READING ROOMS: ARTICLES & BOOKS

Two Reading Rooms are available for searching, viewing and downloading the online Articles and Books in the Field Library:
ARTICLE READING ROOM
BOOK READING ROOM
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GLOSSARY & TOPICS

Thousands of searchable ismaili words, names, nouns and topics taken from ismaili dictionaries and encyclopedias.
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DEVOTIONAL LITERATURE

A searchable list of Texts of Ismaili Devotional Literature such as Qasidas, Geets, Poems, etc.
SEARCH DEVOTIONAL LITERATURE TEXTS
SEARCH DEVOTIONAL LITERATURE AUDIO
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES

A catalog of published ismaili documents. Many documents listed in this catalog are available to read online. Feel free to explore the powerful search and filtering capabilities of the bibliography catalogue.
Bibliography SEARCH
Bibliography CATALOGUE
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WAEZ

Searchable list of Audio files of Ismaili Waezes available to download.
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ISMAILI JOURNALISM

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"Journalism in the modern usage is one of the younger professions. The first prototype of the modern newspaper was the series of public announcements, known during the Roman empire as Acta Diurna published daily from 59 B.C., and later in Venice as the Gazette. Similar official reports were made in China, where the earliest newspaper, the Tehing-Pao appeared in Peking in the middle of 8th century. The invention of printing from movable type by Johann Gutenberg in Minz about 1450 revolutionized the spreading of news.

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