Search results for "Ismailis" - New World Encyclopedia
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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 ...12 KB (1,981 words) - 21:53, 8 March 2024
- a sect of Ismaili Shīˤa Islām. These Ismailis and the Twelvers both accepted ... Ismailis have marked the Jubilees of their Imāms with public celebrations ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 06:09, 16 June 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (2,157 words) - 08:33, 13 March 2024
- Hasan was influenced by Ismaili doctrine. Ismailis believe that their Imam ... outside Islam" and he regarded the Ismailis as drawing on foreign ideas ...21 KB (3,293 words) - 08:37, 25 January 2023
- adopted as the designation of the Nizari Ismailis. Subsequently, after the ... of the secret practices of the Nizari Ismailis, who were generally portrayed ...15 KB (2,338 words) - 22:24, 8 November 2021
- leader of the believing community called the Ismailis, also descends from her lineage. Although descent from Muhammad is not a condition for leadership ...9 KB (1,417 words) - 01:39, 26 March 2024
- 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 ...28 KB (4,430 words) - 04:12, 17 June 2023
- Some Shi’a, such as the Aga Khan Ismailis recognize a living Imam ... Bhoras, Alavi Bhoras, and the Nizari Ismailis. Seveners are the second ...24 KB (3,795 words) - 14:11, 27 January 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 06:10, 16 June 2023
- The Samanids (819–999)Sāmāniyān) were a Persian dynasty in Central Asia and Greater Khorasan, named after its founder Saman Khuda who converted ...15 KB (2,168 words) - 11:36, 6 September 2022
- the practice of concealing their true beliefs, common among Ismailis. They outwardly accepted the religious beliefs of those among whom they ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 21:14, 30 January 2024
- Khan the Imam (spiritual leader) of the Ismailis and Princess Andrée Aga ... leadership, of the widely dispersed Shia Ismailis, and had instead named as ...29 KB (4,230 words) - 22:56, 30 November 2022
- The Ghaznavid Empire was a KhorāṣānianClifford Edmund Bosworth, 2006. [http://www.iranica.com/articles/v10f6/v10f608.html Ghaznavids] Encyclopaedia ...15 KB (2,234 words) - 16:57, 8 December 2022
- his decision to travel. He opposed the Ismailis, whose Shi'a dynasty ruled Egypt (the Assassins, hasheshin, who had murdered Nizam al-Mulk ...28 KB (4,307 words) - 07:21, 16 June 2023
- smaller schools, of which the largest are the Ismailis or the "Seveners" and the Zaydis or the "Fivers" (predominant in the Yemen ...71 KB (11,340 words) - 17:01, 18 March 2022
- is Sunni Muslim. Other Muslims include Ismailis, Shiites, and Alawites. Of the non-Muslims in Damascus, most are Christians, primarily Greek ...36 KB (5,471 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- (after Iran). Smaller Muslim sects include the Ismailis and the Dawoodi Bohras. The non-Muslim population mainly comprises of Christians and Hindus ...40 KB (5,985 words) - 19:54, 7 March 2024
- 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 ...43 KB (6,221 words) - 00:52, 21 April 2023
- Kumaris, and others. There are small numbers of Ismailis and Sikhs. The Bahá'í World Center is situated in Haifa, attracting pilgrims from all ...69 KB (10,208 words) - 15:25, 19 March 2023
