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of cultural war between Twelvers and Ismailis and some descriptions of ... Imam, who was about 22 at the time. Some Ismailis believe that Muhammad bin ...

a sect of Ismaili Shīˤa Islām. These Ismailis and the Twelvers both accepted ... Aga Hasan Ali Shah, the 46th Imam of the Ismailis, by Fath Ali (1771-1834 ...

him as spiritual leader of the Khoja Ismailis in India. Aga Khan I began ... Fatimah and her husband, Ali. The Ismailis, as they became known, who ...

to succeed him led to the split of the Ismailis from the mainstream Twelver ... the partisans of the Twelvers and the Ismailis. The Ismailis felt that ...

Hasan was influenced by Ismaili doctrine. Ismailis believe that their Imam ... outside Islam" and he regarded the Ismailis as drawing on foreign ideas ...

adopted as the designation of the Nizari Ismailis. Subsequently, after the ... of the secret practices of the Nizari Ismailis, who were generally portrayed ...

leader of the believing community called the Ismailis, also descends from her lineage. Although descent from Muhammad is not a condition for leadership ...

long reign. In parts of the empire, Ismailis were massacred by popular ... Hakim made the education of the Ismailis and the Fatimid da‘is a ...

Some Shi’a, such as the Aga Khan Ismailis recognize a living Imam ... Bhoras, Alavi Bhoras, and the Nizari Ismailis. Seveners are the second ...

his position as the spiritual leader of the Ismailis made indispensable and a sound European training. The latter had been denied to his father and ...

The Samanids (819–999)Sāmāniyān) were a Persian dynasty in Central Asia and Greater Khorasan, named after its founder Saman Khuda who converted ...

the practice of concealing their true beliefs, common among Ismailis. They outwardly accepted the religious beliefs of those among whom they ...

Khan the Imam (spiritual leader) of the Ismailis and Princess Andrée Aga ... leadership, of the widely dispersed Shia Ismailis, and had instead named as ...

The Ghaznavid Empire was a KhorāṣānianClifford Edmund Bosworth, 2006. [http://www.iranica.com/articles/v10f6/v10f608.html Ghaznavids] Encyclopaedia ...

his decision to travel. He opposed the Ismailis, whose Shi'a dynasty ruled Egypt (the Assassins, hasheshin, who had murdered Nizam al-Mulk ...

smaller schools, of which the largest are the Ismailis or the "Seveners" and the Zaydis or the "Fivers" (predominant in the Yemen ...

is Sunni Muslim. Other Muslims include Ismailis, Shiites, and Alawites. Of the non-Muslims in Damascus, most are Christians, primarily Greek ...

(after Iran). Smaller Muslim sects include the Ismailis and the Dawoodi Bohras. The non-Muslim population mainly comprises of Christians and Hindus ...

percent are Shi'a, 40 percent of whom are Ismailis. Most of them reside in the remote Gorno-Badakhshan region as well as certain districts of the ...

Kumaris, and others. There are small numbers of Ismailis and Sikhs. The Bahá'í World Center is situated in Haifa, attracting pilgrims from all ...