Shia Islam. The Ismailis get their name from their acceptance of Imam Ismaʻil ibn Jafar. Ismaili (Arabic: اسماعيلي) is also a common surname or patronymic...

also refer to: Ismaili (surname), individuals with the surname or patronymic Nizari Isma'ilism or al-Nizāriyyūn, a branch of the Ismaili Shi'i Muslims...

Iranian historian Ismaili (disambiguation), variant of Arabic-based Ismaili / Ismaily Ismaili (surname), variant of Arabic-based Ismaili / Smaily This disambiguation...

Poonawalla or Poonawala is an Indian (Parsi/Dawoodi Bohra/Khoja) toponymic surname for someone from Pune (formerly Poona) in India. It may refer to: Adar...

Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan, or ʿAlī, surnamed Al-Hādī (Arabic: علي الهادي بن نزار) (470 AH/1076 CE – 530 AH/1136 CE) was the 20th Ismaili Nizari Imam. Born in Cairo...

castes converted to Islam and adopted the title. In the Punjab region, Ismaili Pirs gave some converts, as well as Muslims who emigrated from Central...

were part of a movement that adhered to a syncretic branch of Sevener Ismaili Shia Islam, and were ruled by a dynasty founded by Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi...

leader (Ruknuddin Khurshah) of the heretics (the misnomer used for the Ismailis) of Alamut traces his descent from this son (of Nizar)." At the very least...

American football player Prince Karim Aga Khan, Imām of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims Karim Valiyev, Azerbaijani General Karim Ansarifard, Iranian football...

1138). Muhammad bin Ali, surnamed al-Muhtadi is reported to have born in 502/1109 at the castle of Lambsar. He was the first Ismaili Nizari Imam to be born...

Bohra, a branch of the Mustaali community Suleimani Bohra, a Mustaali Ismaili community that predominantly reside in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Pakistan and...

Ali (1997). Ismailis Through History (PDF). Karachi: Islamic book publisher. Tajddin, Mumtaz Ali (2009). Brief history of the Shia Ismaili Imams. Karachi...

the Aga Khan IV, the 49th Imam of the Nizari branch of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims; from May 1998 to March 2014, she held the title Begum Aga Khan...

Palestinian judge (al-Husayni family) Karim al-Hussayni, Imam of the Ismaili Muslims and the fourth Aga Khan Khaled Hosseini, American novelist and...

to this community. Patani Bohras or Jafari Bohras are converts of the Ismaili Bohras in Patan during Muslim rule of Gujarat. Some Dawoodi Bohras underwent...

the last name "Damania". The surname is largely seen in three communities: the Parsis; the Shia Muslims, including Ismaili Muslims and the Bohra and Bohri...

two Indians who visited al-Mustansir Billah in Egypt. They joined the Ismaili faith under Fatimid Dai Mu'ayyad fi'l-Din al-Shirazi, and went to India...

Khanate) (died 1359), ruler of the Chagatai Abdullah (Ismaili Mustaali Missionary), first Ismaili, Fatimid, mustaali saint to reach India, c. 1067 AD Abdullah...

Velshi is an Indian (Khoja) surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ali Velshi (born 1969), Canadian journalist and host of MSNBC's Velshi; son...

(interpreted in a spiritual esoteric manner of the truth being unveiled with the Ismailis in this case). He is known as "‘A'lā’ al-Dīn" in some manuscripts of Kalam-i...

Eastern Roman Empire. Notable people with the name include: Fateh Daud, Ismaili Shi'a ruler of Multan Fateh Naseeb Khan (1890–1933), Commander-in-chief...

tenth Fatimid Caliph and recognised as the 20th imam by the Mustaali Ismaili Shi'a sect Amir Abdur-Rahim (1981-2024), American basketball coach Amir...

politician Abas Ermenji (1913–2003), Albanian politician and historian Abas Ismaili (born 1967), Iranian cyclist Elisha Abas (born 1971), Israeli pianist Salleh...

individuals who follow Pir Sadardin. Pir Sadardin Imamshah Bawa, was a Shia Ismaili Da'i who founded the Satpanth Tariqa around 600 years ago, and taught tolerance...

simplified description of the hierarchy (hudūd) of the organization of the Ismaili da'wah was as follows: Nāṭiq (ناطق), the messenger-propher. Waṣī (وصي)...

footballer Rafiq or companion, a title in the hierarchy of the Nizari Ismailis of Alamut period This page or section lists people that share the same...

1947 to 1958. Born on 30 September 1900 in Bombay to a well-off Gujarati Ismaili Khoja family, Chagla suffered a lonely childhood owing to his mother's...

the Fatimid Dynasty, which ruled Egypt from 969 to 1171 and followed the Ismaili branch of Shia Islam, there was a relative period of tolerance towards...

to the Shia Ismaili Nizari sect of Islam in the 15th century. As Lohanas were worshippers of Shakti, the emergence of a devotional Ismaili oral tradition...

the revolutions of 1917, he settled at his villa in Seis am Schlern. The Ismaili peoples among whom he travelled respect his work and reputation. The 150th...