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Ismaili communities in Afghanistan are less populous than the Twelver who consider the Ismaili 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 Badakhshan, and amongst the Wakhi in the Wakhan Corridor. The Ismailis believe that the series of Imamat or ...
The offshoot of the Muhammad-Shahi or Mumini Nizari Ismailis who follow the elder son of Shams al-Din (Nizari) Muḥammad d. 1310, the 28th Qasim-Shahi Imam, named ʻAlāʼ ad-Dīn Mumin Shāh d. 1337 (26th Imam of the Muhammad-Shahi or Mumini Nizari Ismailis) and his son Muhammad Shah d 1404, the twenty-seventh Imam. They follow this line of ...
Section 5.2 establishes National Councils in the 14 countries specified in the First Schedule, and Section 5.4 allows those National Councils to establish Regional and Local Councils as necessary. [ 6 ] : 11 According to Section 5.7, every National Council has a President, vice-president, and the Chairmen of the Central Institutions, and if ...
Musta'li Isma'ilism (Arabic: المستعلية, romanized: al-Mustaʿliyya) is a branch of Isma'ilism named for their acceptance of al-Musta'li as the legitimate ninth Fatimid caliph and legitimate successor to his father, al-Mustansir Billah (r.
[2] [3] Jihad "Struggle": The definition of jihad is controversial as it has two meanings: "the Greater Struggle" and "the Lesser Struggle", the latter of which means a confrontation with the enemies of the faith. The Nizari are pacifist and interpret "adversaries" of the faith as personal and social vices (i.e. wrath, intolerance, etc.) and ...
The Qur'anic verse 33:33 inscribed in a Fatimid medallion magnifying the purity of Ahl al-Bayt and their Du'at.. The doctrine of the Imamate in Isma'ilism differs from that of the Twelvers because the Isma'ilis had living Imams for centuries after the last Twelver Imam went into concealment.
The tenth intellect (Aashir Mudabbir or Aql al-Aashir), [a] also known as Spiritual Adam (Adam al-Ruhani), is a primordial being present primarily in the cosmological doctrine of the Tayyibi Isma'ilism.