The Ismailis are found primarily in the South Asia, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, China, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and East Africa but have in recent years emigrated to Europe and North America. The Ismailis and Twelvers both accept the same initial Imams from the descendants of Muhammad through his daughter Fatima and therefore share much of their early history. However, a dispute arose on the succession of the Sixth Imam, Ja'far as-Sadiq. The Ismailis became those who accepted Ja'far's eldest son Ismail as the next Imam, whereas the Twelvers ac ...

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Ismaili, Ismaili - Location, Ismaili - Sub-sects, Ismaili - Mustaali groups: Dawoodi Bohras Alavi Bohras, Ismaili - History of the Nizari Ismaili community in the 20th century, Ismaili - The Nizari Ismaili community today, Ismaili - The Hashishin issue

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Ismaili, Ismaili - Location, Ismaili - Sub-sects, Ismaili - Mustaali groups: Dawoodi Bohras Alavi Bohras, Ismaili - History of the Nizari Ismaili community in the 20th century, Ismaili - The Nizari Ismaili community today, Ismaili - The Hashishin issue

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The Ismaili Shi'a are also known as Seveners because in the eighth century their leaders rejected the heir designated by the sixth Imam, Jafar al Sadiq (d.765), whom the Imami accepted. Ismaili communities in Afghanistan are less populous than the Imami who consider the Ismailis heretical. They are found primarily in and near the eastern Hazarajat, in the Baghlan area north of the Hindu Kush, among the mountain Tajik of Badakhsh ...

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Islam in Afghanistan, Islam in Afghanistan - Early History, Islam in Afghanistan - Ithna Ashariya Twelver or Imami Shi'a, Islam in Afghanistan - Ismailis, Islam in Afghanistan - Sufis, Islam in Afghanistan - Meaning and Practice, Islam in Afghanistan - Politicized Islam, Islam in Afghanistan - Taliban

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Aga Khan (Persian: اغا خان ) is the heriditary title of the Imam (spiritual and general leader), of the Nizari sect (result of the 1094 split from the Mustalis) within the Ismaili branch of Islam (Nizari Ismaili). Etymologically it combines the Turkish military title Agha and the Turkic and Mogol title Khan, so it roughly means "Commanding Chief" and was bestowed upon Imam Aga Hasan Ali Shah by the Shah of Per ...

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Islam and Hinduism: Symbiotic Mysticism In Devotional Poems

Few have heard of the mystic poems Brahma Prakash or Dasa Avatar by the mediaeval Muslim saint Pir Shams. Both are famous ginans of South Asia's Ismaili community, sometimes also known as Khojas or Aga Khanis in popular parlance.

Ginans are hymn-like poems of spiritual import. They are revered by the faithful in deep veneration as repositories of wisdom and spiritual knowledge, and as transmitting the essential teachings of the Holy Qur'an in the vernacular. Composed in Sindhi, Gujarati, Hindustani and Punjabi among other subcontinental languages, the oldest are ascribed to the pirs or saints who first preached Ismaili Islam in India nearly 1,000 years ago.

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• Dawoodi Bohras - Contributions to the Community At-Large
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Islam History of Islam Oneness of God Profession of Faith Prayer • Fasting Pilgrimage • Charity Muhammad Ali • Abu Bakr Companions of Muhammad Household of Muhammad Prophets of Islam Qur'an • Hadith • Sharia Jurisprudence Biographies of Muhammad Sunni • Shi'a • Sufi Art • Architecture Cities • Calendar Science • Philosophy Religious leaders Women in Islam Political Islam • Jihad Liberal Islam Vocabula ...

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• Kaaba - Physical attributes and location of the Kaaba
• Kaaba - The cleaning of the Kaaba
• Kaaba - History of the Kaaba
• Kaaba - Reconstructions of the Kaaba
• Kaaba - The Qibla and prayer
• Kaaba - Ali said to have been born in the Kaaba

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Please remove this notice after the article has been expanded. Details are on this talk page or at Wikipedia:Requests for expansion. Abu Yaqub Sijistani (active 971 CE) was an Ismaili missionary and Neo-Platonic philosopher, who was martyred a few years after 971 CE. Abu Yaqub Sijistani - External link. Abu Ya‘qub al-Sijistani at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ...

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Kalyana is one of the neighborhoods of New Karachi Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. There are several ethnic groups in New Karachi Town including Urdu speakers, Punjabis, Sindhis, Kashmiris, Seraikis, Pakhtuns, Balochs, Memons, Bohras, Ismailis, etc. Over 99% of the population is Muslim. The population of New Karachi Town is estimated to be nearly one million. ...

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Wilferd Ferdinand Madelung (born 26 December 1930) is a leading scholar of Islam. He was born in Stuttgart, Germany, where he completed his early education at Eberhard-Ludwig-Gymnasium. He is the Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford. He has written extensively on the early history of Islam, as well as on Islamic sects such as the Shi'a and the Ismailis. Wilferd Madelung - Works. Madelung, W. (editor) - Arabic Texts Concerning The History of The Zaydi Imams of Tabar ...

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Al-Azhar University, or Al-Azhar Al-Shareef (الأزهر الشريف; literally, "The Noble Al-Azhar"), is connected to the mosque in Cairo named to honor Fatima Az-Zahraa, the daughter of the prophet Muhammad, from whom the Fatimid Dynasty claimed descent. The mosque was built in two years from 969 CE, the year in which it's foundation was laid. The school of theology (madrassa) connected with it was founded in 988 as an Ismaili Shia school, but it later became a Sunni school, which it remains to this day. It ...

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Taqi al-Din Ahmad ibn 'Ali ibn 'Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhammad al-Makrizi (or Maqrizi) (1364 - 1442), is an Arabian historian, known as al-Maqrizi because of his ancestral connection with Maqriz, a suburb of Baalbek.1 According to Paul E. Walker, A Mamluk historian and himself a Sunni, he is remarkable in this context for his unusually keen interest in the Ismaili Fatimid dynasty and ...

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• Al-Makrizi - Writings
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It was in Qom, now in modern day Iran, that, in 1056 (around the time when the historical Macbeth was nearing the end of his rule in Scotland), Hassan Ibn Sabbah was born to a family of Ishna Aashariya Shi’es. Early in his life his families’ fortunes took them to Rayy, about 120 kilometres from Iran’s modern-day capital city of Tehran. It was in this centre of religious matrices, that Hassan developed a keen interest in metaphys ...

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Hassan-i-Sabah, Hassan-i-Sabah - Life and work, Hassan-i-Sabah - Hassan Sabbah: A Ismaili Perspective, Hassan-i-Sabah - The Assassins, Hassan-i-Sabah - Hassan in music, Hassan-i-Sabah - Hassan in popular culture

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It was in the city of Qom in Persia that, in 1056 (around the time when the historical Macbeth was nearing the end of his rule in Scotland), Hassan Ibn Sabbah was born to a family of Ishna Aashariya Shi’es. Early in his life his families’ fortunes took them to Rayy, about 120 kilometres from Iran’s modern-day capital city of Tehran. It was in this centre of religious matrices, that Hassan developed a keen interest in metaphys ...

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Hassan-i-Sabah, Hassan-i-Sabah - Life and work, Hassan-i-Sabah - Hassan Sabbah: A Ismaili Perspective, Hassan-i-Sabah - The Assassins, Hassan-i-Sabah - Hassan in music, Hassan-i-Sabah - Hassan in popular culture

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Within Shi'ism, there are various sects that differ over the number of Imams, or path of succession. The issue of who is the rightful Imam has led to the growth of numerous sects within Shi'ism including: Twelvers (with Shaykhis), Ismailis (Seveners), Zaidis (Fivers), Alawites, Alevites, Druze, Ahl-e Haqq and others. Shi'a Imam - Ithna Ashariya. According to the majority of Shi'a, namely the Ithna Ashariya, or Twelvers, the following is a listing of the rightful successors to Muhammad. Each Imam was the so ...

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Shi'a Imam, Shi'a Imam - Sects, Shi'a Imam - Ithna Ashariya, Shi'a Imam - Ismailiya Ismailis, Shi'a Imam - Zaidhiya Zaidis, Shi'a Imam - Status

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About 19% of Afghans are Shi'as. The most numerous Shi'a sect in Afghanistan is the Imami Hazara living in the Hazarajat of central Afghanistan, and the Imami Farsiwan of Herat Province. Mixtures occur in certain areas such as Bamiyan Province where Sunni, Imami and Ismaili may be found. Imami Shi'a are also found in urban centers such as Kabul, Kandahar, Ghazni, and Mazar-i-Sharif where numbers of Qizilbash and Hazara reside. Urban Shi'a are successful small business entrepr ...

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Islam in Afghanistan, Islam in Afghanistan - Early History, Islam in Afghanistan - Ithna Ashariya Twelver or Imami Shi'a, Islam in Afghanistan - Ismailis, Islam in Afghanistan - Sufis, Islam in Afghanistan - Meaning and Practice, Islam in Afghanistan - Politicized Islam, Islam in Afghanistan - Taliban

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From a high mountain fortress, ibn-al-Sabbah directed a ruthless campaign against the overlords of other sects in Persia, Iraq, and Syria. Northwest of Qazwin, atop the Elburz Mountains, on a lonely ridge 6,000 feet above the sea,…stood the castle of Alamut (eagle’s nest). Commanding a royal view of the valley below, accessible only by a single, almost vertical pathway, the remote fortress was an ideal hideout and headquarters. In 1090, Hasan seized the fortress of Alamut, and the castle henceforth received the name of the Abode of Fortu ...

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Hassan-i-Sabah, Hassan-i-Sabah - Life and work, Hassan-i-Sabah - Hassan Sabbah: A Ismaili Perspective, Hassan-i-Sabah - The Assassins, Hassan-i-Sabah - Hassan in music, Hassan-i-Sabah - Hassan in popular culture

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William S. Burroughs is one of a number of fiction writers who have incorporated Sabbah--himself or his ideas--in their work. Hassan i Sabbah X (the tenth in the line) appears as a Sufi mystic, alias Franklin Delano Roosevelt Stuart, in the Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson. The serpent king Thulsa Doom in the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian bears many similarities to the legendary Hassan, notably in the scene where acolytes commit suicide as a demonstration that 'flesh is stronger than steel'. Hassan report ...

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Hassan-i-Sabah, Hassan-i-Sabah - Life and work, Hassan-i-Sabah - Hassan Sabbah: A Ismaili Perspective, Hassan-i-Sabah - The Assassins, Hassan-i-Sabah - Hassan in music, Hassan-i-Sabah - Hassan in popular culture

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William S. Burroughs is one of a number of fiction writers who have incorporated Sabbah--himself or his ideas--in their work. Brion Gysin, a friend and contemporary of William S. Burroughs, wrote extensively about Sabbah and the Assassins in his novel "The Process" and also described his visit to the ruins of Alamut in one of his short stories. Hassan i Sabbah X (the tenth in the line) appears as a Sufi mystic, alias Franklin Delano Roosevelt Stua ...

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Hassan-i-Sabah, Hassan-i-Sabah - Life and work, Hassan-i-Sabah - Hassan Sabbah: A Ismaili Perspective, Hassan-i-Sabah - The Assassins, Hassan-i-Sabah - Hassan in music, Hassan-i-Sabah - Hassan in popular culture

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When Hassan discovered Alamut in the late 11th Century, it was in the hands of a Seljuk subject. Hassan prepared the takeover of the castle by secretly converting its staff. With the household on his side, he was smuggled into the castle and began to establish his rule at Alamut. When the castle's residents realized they were no longer in control it was too late. Hassan graciously allowed the former tenant leave of his castle in addition to a draft of 3,000 silver dinars in payment for the castle. From this point on his community and its branches spread throughout Iran and Syria and came to be called Hashshashin or Ha ...

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Hassan-i-Sabah, Hassan-i-Sabah - Life and work, Hassan-i-Sabah - Hassan Sabbah: A Ismaili Perspective, Hassan-i-Sabah - The Assassins, Hassan-i-Sabah - Hassan in music, Hassan-i-Sabah - Hassan in popular culture

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