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	ShaikhSiddiqui Khoja
		Among the Shias of South Asia the Ithna-Asharis are in the majority while the Khojas and Bohras of Western and Central South Asia belong to the two internal divisions of the Isma`ili group of Muslims - the Nizaris (Khojas) with Satpanth Ismailism and the the Musta‘lis (Bohras or Bohri) with Tayyibi Ismailism.
		The Khojas are concentrated in Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Gujarat.
		Khojas were originally converted by Pir Sadruddin (Pir Sadr Al-Dine) in Sindh in the later 14th Century (CE).
	www.shaikhsiddiqui.com /khoja.html (765 words)

	Wireless Wonder \| Managing \| Canadian Business Online
		Initially, Khoja was doing all this for free: no fat executive paycheque and no stock options, at least not in the first year.
		Born into a family of South Asian immigrants in Pretoria, South Africa, Khoja, 46, is a devout follower of the Ismaili branch of Shia Islam.
		Khoja, who immigrated to Canada in 1985 and later became chairman and CEO of Richmond, B.C.-based eXI Wireless Inc., says he started doing volunteer work with the Aga Khan Development Network about five years ago.
	www.canadianbusiness.com /ceos/article.jsp?content=20050815_69865_69865 (1388 words)

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		Zayd Asfan, Abdullah Khoja and Walid Khan narrated their journey from ordinary Saudi youth to mujahideen and discussed the recruitment and brainwashing techniques used by al Qaeda.
		Khoja told the viewers how he met “several Arab and non-Arab fighters, from Daghestan, France, Britain, Germany, and the U.S.A… all Muslims.
		Discussing extremist ideologies and recalling their indoctrination, the three men spoke in turn with Khoja explaining his unease at some of the notions he was being taught.
	www.asharqalawsat.com /english/news.asp?id=2916§ion=3 (1717 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		The Khwajahs or officially Khojas (Urdu: Ø®ÙØ¬Û) are a (mostly Muslim) community that are mainly concentrated in South Asia, but due to migrations over the centuries have spread to many parts of the globe.
		In Pakistan, Khojas are concentrated in the province of Sindh and especially in the city of Karachi.
		Initially the connection between the two Khoja groups hanged on for a while and even a couple of dhegs(large pots) used to be dispatched to the jamatkhana from the mosque during jaman(feast).
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Khoja (1153 words)

	Khoj.html
		Not only were the Khojas in the habit of transmitting contributions to the Imams of the Ismailis but it was also from the origin, a frequent practice with them to make pilgrimages into Persia for the sake of beholding and doing homage to their spiritual chiefs.
		Khojas as a rule have no masjids or mosques; in fact the only masjid uptill then in existence was that erected in A.D. 1822 in the Khoja burial ground of Bombay.
		In this part the connection between the Khojas and the Imam was canvassed and of particular significance is the fact that Khojas have no masjids except the one of 1822 in the burial ground.
	ismaili.net /Source/khoj.html (5957 words)

	KHOJA - A SOCIO-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
		The Khoja community is a cultural group whose origins and history have not been studied in great detail to the present.
		It is certain that the name khoja is the phonetic corruption of the Persian word Khwaja (meaning "master, teacher, respected, well-to-do person") that was given by the Persian Isma'ili missionary Pir Sadruddin to his Hindu converts to Islam in the fourteenth century.
		The Ithna'asheri khojas were also Shi'ites and their jama'at (community) was formed in 1905 also as a result of their opposition to the Isma'ili practices.
	ismaili.net /mirrors/202_khoja/abdgkhja.htm (2245 words)

	Khoja - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Khoja Group -For Agricultural Products - Contact Us The Khoja Co. is a well-known producer and exporter of different kinds of agricultural products...
		The Khoja Co. is a well-known producer and exporter of different kinds of agricultural products...
		The Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, in the town of Yasi, now Turkestan, was built at the time of Timur (Tamerlane), from 1389 to 1405.
	encarta.msn.com /Khoja.html (203 words)

	ITP.net {Features: Khoja's calling}
		But Khoja's engineers and contractors have also had to bear in mind whose toes they are treading on when putting the company's infrastructure in place.
		One of Khoja's main arguments in these situations is that Roshan is not only profit-orientated but also geared towards stimulating local economies that are brought within reach of its network.
		Eventually, Khoja hopes traders and shopkeepers will start using their phones to manage their supply chains and, through mobile payment technology, offer an alternative means for customers to purchase products when ATMs and banks are short on the ground.
	www.itp.net /features/details.php?id=2531&srh=&tbl=itp_features (749 words)

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		Khoja is currently the head of Neurology Department and head of stroke unit in Armed Forces Hospital, Riyadh.
		Khoja introduced new modalities of stroke treatment in his hospital, including hypothermia in malignant MCA ischemic stroke and anoxic brain insult, intraventricular rt-PA for IVH, intra-arterial thrombolysis and cerebral sinuses thrombolysis.
		Khoja is the founder and chairman of the Saudi Advisory Group Against Stroke.
	www.sagas.org.sa /Members/KHOJA.HTM (632 words)

	Upper Crust ::: India's food, wine and style magazine
		Khojas are followers of the Ismaili branch of the Shia sect of Islam.
		Khoja cuisine is also noted for its breads, they make a variety of naans in different shapes and sizes and tastes.
		The Khojas make all their pickles at home, the old lady of the house is usually an expert, and they make their pickles seasonally: kairi in the summer, limbu and mirchi in the winter.
	www.uppercrustindia.com /11crust/eleven/mumbai6.htm (1041 words)

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		At the time of the judgment all the properties of the Khoja Jama'at, including the Jama'at khanas, burial grounds, etc., stood in the name of the Jama`at and after that date the properties were transferred into the name of Aga Khan.
		Khoja Ithna'asharis who were associating themselves with other Ithna'asharis started coming to him for religious dialogues and discussions.
		To challenge them further, these Khoja pioneers were subjected to a variety of European influences as they learned to deal with German rule in Tanganyika, British rule in other parts of East Africa, French rule in Madagascar, Italian rule in Somalia, Belgian rule in the Congo and Portuguese rule in Mozambique.
	www.masumeen.org /files/HistoryOfKhojas.ppt (833 words)

	Kazakhstan - Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi
		The Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, in the town of Yasi, now Turkestan, was built at the time of Timur Lang [Tamerlane], from 1389 to 1405.
		Mazar of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi is an unfinished mausoleum in the city of Türkistan [Hazrat-e Turkestan], in southern Kazakhstan.
		The present structure was commissioned in 1389 by Tamerlane to replace a smaller 12th-century mausoleum of the famous Sufi master, Khoja Ahmed Yasavi (1103–66).
	worldheritage.heindorffhus.dk /frame-KazakhstanMausoleumAhmad.htm (447 words)

	ITP.net {Features: Be Prepared}
		Khoja claims that Watan unsuccessfully touted the business opportunity around to different operators in the region, and was even handed an extension to the original November 15, 2005 deadline to find the money.
		While Khoja says that he has slowly been seeing the operator’s base stations erected around the capital, he is very doubtful that the target dates will be met.
		Khoja claims that the likes of Coca-Cola and Proctor & Gamble are now looking to enter the country and, having seen what can be achieved with the right approach.
	www.itp.net /features/details.php?id=4616&category= (1837 words)

	Arabian Nights: 14 Appendix B (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This Khoja watched over his son right carefully; he let him not come forth from a certain private chamber, and he left not the ribbon of his trousers unsealed.
		When the Khoja had given him to drink three or four cups the face of the boy grew tulip-hued, and he became heated with the wine and began to sport with the Khoja.
		When it was morning, the Khoja again went into the chest; and the servant came and laded the porter with the same and took it back to his house.
	www.wollamshram.ca /1001/Sn_4/14appendixB.htm (1094 words)

	EA Circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The general devotion and discipline of the Khoja Shia Ithna-Asheri Community as seen in their practice of religious faith and functioning of their hierarchical Organisations are the effect of their difficult history of origin.
		The Khojas were originally Hindus mainly of Lohana caste who were converted into a "form of Islam" which had also accommodated some features of Hinduism in its 15th Century presentation by an Ismaili Missionary from Iran.
		Some 30 years later, those families which had migrated to Europe, USA and Canada from Africa formed their own regional federations embracing the Jamats in various towns and then the example of regional federations was also emulated by the Jamats in Gujarat and Kutch (India).
	www.affilica.com /EAcircle/photos.shtml (2238 words)

	CTIA Keynote - Karim Khoja, Roshan Afghanistan, CEO \| PodTech.net: Technology and Entertainment Video Network
		Las Vegas, NV, April 5, 2006 (PodTech News) – When Karim Khoja's company, Telecom Development Company (also called Roshan), first addressed the Afghan market the rate for a wireless phone call was $2 a minute.
		Today, coverage has been extended to 150 of Afghanistan's largest cities and towns, and the price point has dropped to 10 cents a minute during peak hours.
		Podtech is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, appropriateness, legality or applicability of the Comments and Podtech does not endorse, support, sanction, encourage, verify or agree with the Comments posted.
	www.podtech.net /?p=490 (286 words)

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		Within the community, being a Khoja is of course taken for granted, and so there is no need to state the obvious.
		But even then, you will find that the Khoja appellation is often used in a self-depreciating way – I have lost count of the number of times I have heard a Khoja joke told to me by another Khoja.
		Mosques and communities run by Khojas, wherever in the world they are, are often the best run, and certainly the best organized.
	www.world-federation.org /Secretariat/TConFri/Community_Friday_Importance_of_Being_Khoja.htm (1042 words)

	TOWARD A HISTORY OF THE ISMAILIS IN EAST AFRICA
		Most importantly for our purpose he adds 'in Zanzibar there are 450 Khoja families.' In Muscat there were four hundred and in Bombay he reckoned there were about l.400 families of which about four hundred were on the side of the plaintiffs, the rest with the Agha Khan.
		Arnould found that the basic Khoja community organization consisted of a jamaah (the adult males gathered in congregation) with a Mukhi (treasurer) and Kamaria (accountant) who held office for such time as they gave satisfaction.
		First, there has been.the universal prevalence among the Ismailis of the practice of takia or concealment of religious opinion, secondly, their method of seeking to make converts by assuming to a great extent the religious standpoints of the person whom they desired to convert.' Of takia [taqiyyah] he says, it was mental reservation.
	www.ismaili.net /Source/khoja.html (1017 words)

	Retirement Road Leads to Afghanistan - 4/15/2006 - Wireless Week - CA6325375 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Born in South Africa, Khoja grew up in England, where he earned his bachelor's and master's degrees and then headed off to Canada to work for a mobile data company.
		In addition to its standing as the largest wireless carrier in Afghanistan, Roshan also is the largest private utility because it had to set up its own power for its infrastructure.
		Khoja faces unusual issues completely foreign to carriers in more developed countries.
	www.wirelessweek.com /article/CA6325375.html (533 words)

	Economist Article - Shining a light - Roshan Telecom, an AKFED company « Ismaili Mail
		A typically business-minded Ismaili, Mr Khoja went to work as an unpaid volunteer at the Aga Khan Foundation in 1998 after “retiring” at the age of 40 from a lucrative career in telecoms that included stints in Canada, Britain, Croatia, Pakistan and Poland.
		Mr Khoja is particularly proud of his firm’s marketing, which has made Roshan the “brand of brands, bigger than Coca-Cola in Afghanistan”.
		Things are going well enough that Mr Khoja now spends only a couple of weeks a month in Afghanistan, devoting the rest of his time to working for the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development, and cheerleading abroad for Afghanistan.
	ismailimail.wordpress.com /2007/03/08/economist-article-shining-a-light-roshan-telecom-an-akfed-company (1235 words)

	Villagers in Afghan North Demand More Doctors - Health - RedOrbit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		[Presenter, in Dari] Locals in Khoja Dokoh District of Jowzjan Province have said that the health clinic in the district does not meet their requirements and that one doctor and a few staff were not sufficient in a district with a population of 30,000.
		[Correspondent, in Dari] Locals in Khoja Dokoh District of Jowzjan Province have said that the health clinic in the district does not meet the requirements of the population of the district and that the health clinic should be promoted to a hospital.
		He confirmed the problems and said that, according to the guidelines of the Public Health Ministry, health clinics with one doctor and six staff are enough for a village with a population under 10,000, but in a village which has more than 10,000, there should be a bigger health clinic.
	www.redorbit.com /news/health/806721/villagers_in_afghan_north_demand_more_doctors/index.html?source=r_health (466 words)

	Naharnet Newsdesk - Khoja Urges Renewed Berri-Hariri Talks
		Saudi Arabian Ambassador Abdul Aziz Khoja urged Wednesday pro and anti-government factions in Lebanon to resume dialogue and reach a settlement to the ongoing conflict before the upcoming Arab summit conference.
		Khoja stressed that "I do not intervene in the domestic affairs of Lebanon … I hope the (Berri-Hariri) dialogue would resume because it is the only way to avoid a crisis."
		The daily An Nahar on Wednesday said Khoja contacted the concerned parties in a bid to defuse tensions before they spread and get out of hand.
	www.naharnet.com /domino/tn/newsdesk.nsf/Lebanon/2E03772465E600F5C22572A500524CBB?OpenDocument (308 words)

	The Textual History of the Qur'an
		The local legend regarding this Codex is that it was brought to Samarqand by Khoja Akhrar himself when he removed there from Tashkent, and when his Mosque was built there this venerable Codex was placed therein.
		Khoja Akhrar, whose real name, it seems, was 'Ubaidallah, lived in Tashkent in the latter half of the fifteenth century and was, towards the end of his life, the local Pir of the Nakshbandiyya Order of Dervishes.
		In the Khoja's Mosque at Samarqand it lay in public and was stroked and kissed by the pious as a source of blessing
	www.answering-islam.org /Books/Jeffery/Samarqand/index.htm (7661 words)

	Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP, an International Law Firm
		Khoja is an associate in Thelen Reid Brown Raysman and Steiner's San Francisco office.
		As a member of the Business and Finance department, his practice focuses on both domestic and international projects involving insurance regulation, mergers and acquisitions, renewable energy development, as well as general corporate matters.
		Khoja is also an active member of both the firm's National Diversity Committee and recruiting team.
	www.thelenreid.com /index.cfm?section=attorney&function=Read&contactID=1484&print=1 (320 words)

	Husaini Youth - Peterborough: Forums / General Discussions / [poll] Khoja or Muslim!? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		There were young Khojas amongst these early sailors and some of them stayed behind in East Africa and exploited opportunities in commerce and trade.
		The thrust of these influences was great, engendering a fear in the minds of the Khoja of losing their identity.
		I think it dosen't really matter wether we class are selves khoja first then muslim or vice versa because at the end of the day we are all united in the same religion islam.
	www.husainiyouth.org /forum_viewtopic.php?37.632.10 (2300 words)

	Amazon.com: Khoja (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		KHOJAS: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World by Azim Nanji (2004)
		The law applicable to Khojas and Cutchi memons: With the text of the Cutchi Memons act and commentary thereon by S. R Dongerkery (Unknown Binding - 1929)
		Smrti ha'ba khoja, saru eta sunti by Nabina Baruwa (Unknown Binding - 2000)
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Khoja&index=blended&page=1 (410 words)

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