Abu'l-Qāsim al-Ḥasan ibn Faraj ibn Ḥawshab ibn Zādān al-Najjār al-Kūfī (Arabic: أبو القاسم الحسن ابن فرج بن حوشب زاذان النجار الكوفي; died 31 December...

narratives such as the tale of Solomon, a hadith reaching back to Shahr Ibn Hawshab, was already known in the United States in the 18th century as attested...

ʿAlī ibn al-Faḍl al-Jayshānī (Arabic: علي بن الفضل الجيشاني) was a senior Isma'ili missionary (dāʿī) from Yemen. In cooperation with Ibn Hawshab, he established...

tactics used by the Assassins. Contemporaneous historians include ibn al-Qalanisi, Ali ibn al-Athir, and Ata-Malik Juvayni. The former two referred to the...

apparently expected him to head to Yemen, where the missionaries Ibn Hawshab and Ibn al-Fadl had conquered most of the country in the name of the Isma'ili...

10th century. Originally born and raised in Yemen, where his father Ibn Hawshab had established the Isma'ili daʿwa in the late 9th century, he fled the...

|first1-Richard [title= ignored (help) Full name: Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Ja'far ibn Husayn ibn Muhammad ibn al-Sabbah (Arabic: حسن الصباح أو الحسن بن علي بن...

agents to the area round Kufa in the late 870s, and from there to Yemen (Ibn Hawshab, 882) and thence India (884), Bahrayn (Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi, 899), Persia...

dynasty Nizari Ismaili state People Hamdan Qarmat ibn Faraj ibn Ḥawshab ibn al-Fadl al-Jayshani ibn Mansur al-Yaman Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi Abu Tahir al-Jannabi...

Isma'ili (/ˌɪzmɑːˈɪliː/) get their name from their acceptance of Imam Isma'il ibn Jafar as the appointed spiritual successor (imām) to Ja'far al-Sadiq, wherein...

of the twelfth imam. Missionaries (dā'īs) such as Hamdan Qarmat and Ibn Hawshab spread the network of agents to the area round Kufa in the late 870s...

Da'i Muhammad ibn Buzurg-Ummid (1138–1162) Concealed Imams at Alamut Imam Ali al-Hadi ibn Nizar(علي الهادي بن نزار) Imam Al-Muhtadī ibn al-Hādī (Muhammad...

Isma'ili da'i, in Yemen, Ibn Hawshab, in preparation for going on to lead a mission to the Maghreb. After less than a year, Ibn Hawshab sent Abu Abdallah again...

Isma'il ibn Ja'far (Arabic: إسْماعِيل ٱبْن جَعْفَر ٱلْمُبَارَك, romanized: Ismāʿīl ibn Jaʿfar al-Mubārak) was the eldest son of Ja'far al-Sadiq and the...

Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Maktum (Arabic: مُحَمَّد ٱبْن إسْماعِيل ٱلْمَكتُوم, romanized: Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Maktūm; c. 740–813) was the eldest son of...

was buried in Salamiyah. He was succeeded by the Persian da'i Abu Mansur ibn Muhammad or Nasr al-'Ajami appointed from Alamut, which regained a closer...

and Abu Muhammad were Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi (Persia and Bahrayn), Ibn Hawshab and Ali ibn al-Fadl al-Jayshani (to the Yemen), as well as Abu Abdallah al-Shi'i...

Isma'il ibn Ja'far (765–775) Abadullah ibn Muhammad (Ahmad al-Wafi) (813–829) Ahmad ibn Abadullah (Muhammad at-Taqi) (829–840) Husayn ibn Ahmad (Radi...

tradition, by the Kufan anti-Isma'ili polemicist Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Rizam al-Ta'i, on the other hand reports that Abu Sa'id always intended...

regions, by Abd al-Malik ibn Attash, who was based in Iṣfahān.   Ibn al-Athīr (a Sunni historian) describes Abd al-Malik (Ibn Attash) as being interested...

335 – Pope Sylvester I 669 – Li Shiji, Chinese general (b. 594) 914 – Ibn Hawshab, founder of the Isma'ili community in Yemen 1032 – Ahmad Maymandi, Persian...

blood is at stake. Ibn Sa'd, in his book al-Tabaqat al-Kubra, narrates on the authority of Ibn Sirin: The Prophet (S) saw 'Ammar Ibn Yasir (ra) crying...

Yemen with the succession of the thirtieth Da'i al-Mutlaq, Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Fahd Al-Makrami, in 1677. Since then the position of the dai al mutlaq...

pilgrimage to the tombs of Ali ibn Abi Talib and his son, Husayn. While there he met Abu al-Qasim ibn Hasan ibn Farah ibn Hawshab, who was of the Twelvers and...

unbroken hereditary chain of guardianship, or walayah, beginning with Ali Ibn Abi Talib, whom Shias believe the prophet Muhammad declared his successor...

Abū Manṣūr Ismāʿīl ibn al-Ḥāfiẓ (Arabic: أبو منصور إسماعيل بن الحافظ, February 1133 – April 1154), better known by his regnal name al-Ẓāfir bi-Aʿdāʾ Allāh...

in order to elevate his personal status as the reincarnation of Isma'il ibn Ja'far, the seventh Imām of the Isma'ilis. Traditionally, Khoja men wore...

fought off (972–974) before the restructuring of state finances under Yaqub ibn Killis could be embarked upon. Al-Mu'izz was succeeded by his son Al-Aziz...

(1124–1138) Muhammad ibn Kiya Buzurg-Ummid (محمد بزرگ امید) (1138–1162) Imams in occultation at Alamut Ali al-Hadi ibn Nizar ibn al-Mustansir Muhammad...

جَعْفَر ابْن مُوْسَى ٱلصُّلَيْحِي, romanized: Arwā bint Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Mūsā aṣ-Ṣulayḥī), (c. 1048 – c. 1138) was a long-reigning ruler...