• 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • Esmaili (category Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists)
    Iranian historian Ismaili (disambiguation), variant of Arabic-based Ismaili / Ismaily Ismaili (surname), variant of Arabic-based Ismaili / Smaily This disambiguation...
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  • Poonawalla (category Khoja Ismailis)
    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...
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  • Sheikh (redirect from Seku (surname))
    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...
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  • Husseini (redirect from Hussaini (surname))
    Palestinian judge (al-Husayni family) Karim al-Hussayni, Imam of the Ismaili Muslims and the fourth Aga Khan Khaled Hosseini, American novelist and...
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  • 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...
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    Qarmatians (category Ismaili dynasties)
    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...
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    Inaara Aga Khan (category German Ismailis)
    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Rukn al-Din Khurshah (category 13th-century Ismailis)
    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...
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    central to both this institution and the 1946 Ismaili Society of Bombay. Cataloguing a number of Ismaili texts, Ivanov provided the ground for great strides...
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  • Kareem (category Surnames)
    American football player Prince Karim Aga Khan, Imām of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims Karim Valiyev, Azerbaijani General Karim Ansarifard, Iranian football...
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  • Ali (1997). Ismailis Through History (PDF). Karachi: Islamic book publisher. Tajddin, Mumtaz Ali (2009). Brief history of the Shia Ismaili Imams. Karachi...
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  • Fateh (name) (category Surnames)
    Eastern Roman Empire. Notable people with the name include: Fateh Daud, Ismaili Shi'a ruler of Multan Fateh Naseeb Khan (1890–1933), General-in-chief of...
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  • 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...
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  • Bohra (category Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists)
    Bohra, a branch of the Mustaali community Suleimani Bohra, a Mustaali Ismaili community that predominantly reside in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Pakistan and...
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  • Muhammad II of Alamut (category 12th-century Ismailis)
    (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...
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  • Damania (category Surnames)
    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...
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    Al-Mustansir Billah (category Egyptian Ismailis)
    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...
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  • Velshi (category Khoja Ismailis)
    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...
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  • Rafiq (category Surnames)
    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...
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  • simplified description of the hierarchy (hudūd) of the organization of the Ismaili da'wah was as follows: Nāṭiq (ناطق), the messenger-propher. Waṣī (وصي)...
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  • Khanate) (died 1359), ruler of the Chagatai Abdullah (Ismaili Mustaali Missionary), first Ismaili, Fatimid, mustaali saint to reach India, c. 1067 AD Abdullah...
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  • Amir (name) (category Surnames)
    tenth Fatimid Caliph and recognised as the 20th imam by the Mustaali Ismaili Shi'a sect Amir Abdur-Rahim (born 1981), American basketball coach Amir...
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  • Lohana (section Surnames)
    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...
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  • Abas (name) (category Surnames)
    politician Abas Ermenji (1913–2003), Albanian politician and historian Abas Ismaili (born 1967), Iranian cyclist Elisha Abas (born 1971), Israeli pianist Salleh...
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    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...
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    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...
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