2 Most are Imami Shia Muslims, recognizing the leadership of a succession of twelve Imams beginning with the Prophet Muhammad's son-in-law Ali. A minority are Ismaili Shia, who look for leadership ...

Khoja-Moolji’s grandmother found refuge within the Shia Ismaili Muslim community, a minority within a minority, being an ethnic group only holding a marginal presence within the fifteen percent of ...

The Islamic State, which emerged in the 1970s, brutalised religious minorities like the Ahmadiyya and the Shia. Even more ...

Studies in Oriental Sources, p. 75. This book explores the evolution of a Shia Ismaili identity and crucial aspects of the historical forces that conditioned the development of the Muslim modern in ...

There are around 25 Ismaili communities in 25 countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, North America and Europe today. It has been 50 years since the present Aga Khan became Imam, and many of these ...

An exclusive interview of the 49th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims to INDIA TODAY chairman and editor-in-chief Aroon Purie during the former’s visit to India in 1980 ...

ROBINSON, FRANCIS 2014. Introduction: The Shi‘a in South Asia. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 24, Issue. 3, p. 353. This book represents the first serious consideration of Ismaili-Shia ...

Dr Saifuddin is the spiritual leader and 53rd Da'i al-Mutlaq of one million Dawoodi Bohras, a subgroup of the Tayyibi, Mustaali, Ismaili Shia branch of Islam. Mr Chebukati was awarded Order of the ...