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	Ismaili - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Though there are several sub-groupings within the Ismailis, the term in today's vernacular generally refers to the Nizārī, who are followers of the Aga Khan and are the only Shīˤa community with a continuing line of Imāma "Imamate".
		Ismailis have marked the Jubilees of their Imāms with public celebrations, which are symbolic affirmations of the ties that link the Ismā'īlī Imām and his followers.
		This was due to the adaptability of the Ismailis themselves and in particular to their educational background and their linguistic abilities, as well as the efforts of the host countries and the moral and material support from Ismā'īlī community programmes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ismaili (2309 words)

	Ismaili - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A branch of the Ismaili known as the Saaabiyin or Seveners held that Ismail's son, Muhammad, was the seventh and final Imam (a belief inaccurately but commonly ascribed to Ismailis as a whole).
		Ismailis have marked the Jubilees of their Imams with public celebrations, which are symbolic affirmations of the ties that link the Ismaili Imam and his followers.
		This was due to the adaptability of the Ismailis themselves and in particular to their educational background and their linguistic abilities, as well as the efforts of the host countries and the moral and material support from Ismaili community programmes.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Ismaili (3415 words)

	Aga Khan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1818 the title of Aga Khan was bestowed upon Aga Hasan Ali Shah, the 46th Imam of the Ismailis, by Fath Ali, the Shah of Persia.
		Aga Khan III, Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah, was one of the founders of the Muslim League in 1906.
		The present Aga Khan IV became Imam of the Shi'a Imami Ismaili Nizari on July 11, 1957 at the age of 20, succeeding his grandfather, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan (Aga Khan III).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aga_Khan (680 words)

	Seveners / Ismaili Islam
		Ismailis are Shi'a Muslims who claim that Ismail, the eldest son of Imam Jaffar, was the rightful ruler of all Muslims.
		Ismaili Shia doctrine closely resembled Twelver Shia Islam with regard to observance of the sharia but also included a system of philosophy and science coordinated with religion that proved the divine origin of the Imamate and the rights of the Fatimids to it.
		Ismaili beliefs are complex and syncretic, combining elements from the philosophies of Plotinus, Pythagoras, Aristotle, gnosticism, and the Manichaeans, as well as components of Judaism, Christianity, and Eastern religions.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/intro/islam-ismaili.htm (1016 words)

	ShaikhSiddiqui Ismaili
		The Isma'ili school of Islam is the second largest Shi'a school of jurisprudence after the Ithna Ashari school.
		The Ismailis are found primarily in the South Asia, Pakistan, Syria, Lebanon, Tajikistan, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, India and East Africa but have in recent years emigrated to Europe and North America.
		The Aga Khan obtained his authority over Shia Ismaili Muslims in Bombay through a legal case at the Bombay high Court in 1866 when Sir Joseph Arnold ruled that the Khoja Muslim community must recognize the authority of the Aga Khan over all their affairs including transfer of their property to the Aga Khan.
	www.shaikhsiddiqui.com /ismaili.html (816 words)

	The Institute of Ismaili Studies - Introduction to The Assassin Legends
		The creation and widespread promulgation of these stories detailing the Nizari Ismailis’ use of hashish, the earthly paradise created by the ‘Old Man of the Mountain’ and the deadly missions Ismaili devotees were ready to undertake were the result of several factors.
		Subsequently, the Nizari Ismailis of Syria became involved in a web of intricate alliances and rivalries with various Muslim rulers and with the Christian Franks, who were not interested in acquiring accurate information about their Ismaili neighbours, or indeed about any other Muslim community, in the Latin Orient.
		The distorted image of the Ismailis in general and the Nizari Ismailis in particular was maintained in orientalist circles until the opening decades of the twentieth century.
	www.iis.ac.uk /view_article.asp?ContentID=101164 (2772 words)

	Ismaili - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Ismailis became those who accepted Ja'far's eldest son Ismaili as the next imam whereas the Twelvers accepted a younger son, Musa al-Kazim.
		A branch of the Ismailis known as the Saabiyin or Seveners (and inaccurately ascribed to Ismailis as a whole) held that Ismail's son, Muhammad, was the seventh and final imam.
		The Nizari Ismaili community are today headed by their 49th imam, Prince Karim Aga Khan IV.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Ismaili (726 words)

	MUSIC
		In the Ismaili da‘wa of the pre-Fatimid and Fatimid periods, it was also applied to senior da‘is and in the Alamut period of Ismaili history it came to be applied to those representing the Imam.
		Often, the al-ma’dhun al-mutlaq became a da‘i himself and was authorised as the chief licentiate to administer the oath of initiation and rules and policies of the da‘wa to initiates.
		The first Nizari imams after the Mongols’ conquest of Alamut lived as clandestine Sufi masters, while their followers adopted the designation of murids, which is still in use today.
	www.cacac.org /Glossary_of_Islam.htm (7827 words)

	Essay, Farhad Daftary, Copyright©2001 BRIIFS 3, 1
		Other Nizari groups, which found themselves isolated in remote localities or in urban areas outside of their traditional territories in Persia, soon either disintegrated or were assimilated into the religiously dominant communities of their environment.
		Hasan `Ali Shah succeeded to the Nizari Imamate in 1817 as the forty-sixth
		Nizari Ismailis of different countries and cultural backgrounds are now actively assisting in the development of the Ismaili community of Tajikistan and its newly-delineated identity, while attempting to preserve the region’s distinctive cultural heritage.
	www.riifs.org /journal/essy_v3no1_dftari.htm (5333 words)

	History of the Ismaili Imams Tarikh-e Imamat
		Ismailis in these fortresses lived a very strict life and in times of emergencies, women and children were separated from men and sent away to a particular fortress, while the men lived a very vigorous military life.
		Ismailis were the first ones to stand up to him and they were the first victims of his invasion.
		Halaku had the Ismaili chieftain of Gird Kuh secretly slaughtered, and he sent Shiran Shah back with an ultimatum to the Imam to destroy the fortress of Maymundiz in which he was residing, to surrender himself unconditionally and to report to the Mongol commander immediately.
	www.amaana.org /history/history5.htm (4522 words)

	The Ismaili da'wa Outside the Fatimid dawla (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Ismailis separated from the rest of the Imami Shi'is on the death of the Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq in 148/765.
		The Ismaili da'is summoned the Muslims everywhere to accord their allegiance to the Ismaili Imam-Mahdi, who was expected to deliver the believers from the oppressive rule of the Abbasids and establish justice and a more equitable social order in the world.
		As the provision of instruction in Ismaili doctrine for the initiates was from early on an important responsibility of the da'wa, the da'i was also entrusted with the religious education of the new converts or mustajibs.
	www.hal-pc.org /~amana/Ismailidawa.htm (9103 words)

	A HISTORY OF THE AGAKHANI ISMAILIS
		Ismaili historians have not recorded the Pir's residence in Gujrat, Kutchh, or Kathiawar, where the Gujrati language is spoken.
		Karim Aga Khan's Didar (glimpse) is a Hajj for an Agakhani Ismaili.
		Ismailis proudly recite the above verses in the Jama`at khanas and the missionaries proudly propagate the theme of this Ginan.
	www.mostmerciful.com /book-2.htm (6021 words)

	Hakim Nizari Birjindi
		Hakim Naeemuddin bin Jalal-ud-din Nizari is acknowledged as one of the renowned Persian savants and poets of Seventh Century Hijri.
		Ismaili faith contains such dynamic elements that notwithstanding adoption of various foreign modes of expression for propagation to suit different times and places, it retains the pristine originality of Islam.
		Though the verses of Hakim Nizari are replete with Sufistic terminology and themes, it is the traditional belief of Ismailis as well as considered opinion of non-Ismaili scholars that he was without doubt a staunch Ismaili and his prosody amply reflects the spirit of Ismaili Nizari faith.
	ismaili.net /hero/hero21.html (1146 words)

	Ismailis
		Ismaili missionaries and its political organization also mobilized a network of N African tribes to support the Fatimid claim to the caliphate in Egypt and several regions of the Mediterranean.
		Today, though a minority community that is not politically active, the Ismailis are spread in small pockets in parts of the Middle East, central and S Asia, and increasingly North America and Europe.
		Aga Khan - Aga Khan, the title of the religious leader and imam of the Ismaili Nizari sect of Islam,...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0825618.html (334 words)

	Isma
		Mediaeval Isma'ili History and Thought by Farhad Daftary (Cambridge University Press) Until recently the Isma'ilis, a major Shi'i Muslim community, were studied and judged almost exclusively on the basis of the hostile accounts of their Muslim enemies and the fanciful tales of the Crusaders and other occidental sources.
		The Isma`ilis, in fine with their cyclical view of the sacred history of mankind, in fact, made interesting attempts to accommodate the major religions known to them, such as Judaism, Christianity, Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism, in their gnostic system of thought.
		That the chroniclers evidently identify the Syrian Nizari Isma'ili community of the Mamluk times as the sole source of supply for the sultan's would‑be `assassins' clearly attests to the durability of the legends and hostile rumours regarding the practices of the Nizari Isma'ilia of the Alamut period.
	www.wordtrade.com /religion/islam/ismailihistoryR.htm (1954 words)

	Nasir al-Din Tusi [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		At the age of twenty-two or a while later, Tusi joined the court of Nasir al-Din Muhtashim, the Ismaili governor of Quhistan, Northeast Iran, where he was accepted into the Ismaili community as a novice.
		The collapse of Ismaili political power and the massacre of the Ismaili population, during the Mongol invasion, left no choice for Tusi except the exhibition of some sort of affiliation to Twelver Shi‘ism and denouncing his Ismaili allegiances (taqiyya).
		The collapse of Ismaili political power and the massacre of the Ismaili population, who were a serious threat to the Mongols, left no choice for Tusi except the exhibition of some sort of affiliation to Twelver Shi‘ism and denouncing his Ismaili allegiances.
	www.iep.utm.edu /t/tusi.htm (1086 words)

	Text 2 Read - Category: Shia Imami Nizari Ismaili Muslims
		The Ismailis and what eventually came to be known as the Ithna ashari or Twelver Shia parted ways over the succession to the great, great grandson of Ali and Fatima, Imam Jafar as-Sadiq, who died in the year 765.
		Led by mujtahids, the Ithna asharis are the largest Shia Muslim community, and the majority of the population in Iran.
		The Ismailis gave their allegiance to Imam Jafar as-Sadiq"s eldest son Ismail, from whom they derive their name.
	www.text2read.com /blog/index.php?cat=249 (2064 words)

	State Department's Files On The Nizari Assassin Cult \|
		Shi'a Ismailis (Seveners) in Najran reportedly were charged with practicing magic; however, the Shi'a Ismailis maintained that their practice adheres to the Seveners' interpretation of Islam.
		Moreover, Ismailis in the Najran region are regularly charged with practicing "sorcery" and "witchcraft" as a pretext to stifle their private religious practice.
		The Ismailis trace their religious lineage to the Assassin cult, but the modern incarnation is non-violent and bears little resemblance to the Assassins of lore.
	intelwire.egoplex.com /2006_06_13_exclusives.html (846 words)

	Articles - Agha Khan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Aga Khan (Persian: Ø¢ØºØ§ Ø®Ø§Ù†) is the hereditary title of the Imam (spiritual and general leader), of the Nizari (Nizari Ismaili) sect (result of the 1094 split with the MustaË¤liyya who followed Nizar´s younger brother Al-Musta´li) within the Ismaili branch of Islam.
		The present Aga Khan became Imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Nizari on July 11, 1957 at the age of 20, succeeding his grandfather, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan (Aga Khan III).
		He is the 49th hereditary Imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims and a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad through his cousin and son-in-law, Ali, the first Imam, and his wife Fatima, the Prophet´s daughter.
	www.kimia-sains.com /articles/Agha_Khan (533 words)

	HASAN BIN SABBAH AND NIZARI ISMAILI STATE IN ALAMUT
		Hasan bin Sabbah was born in a Shiite family on 428/1034 at Qumm.
		Soon he was reading Ismaili literature, which so stirred him that when he became dangerously ill, he began to fear that he might die without knowing the truth.
		He took possession of the fortress of Alamut in 483/1090 and established an independent Nizari Ismaili state.
	ismaili.net /histoire/history06/history601.html (756 words)

	Ismaili
		Ismaili is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		Ismaili - History of the Nizari Ismaili community in the 20th century.
		The serpent king Thulsa Doom in the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian bears many similarities to the legendary Hassan, notably in the scene where acolytes commit suicide as a demonstration that 'flesh is stronger than steel'.
	www.experiencefestival.com /ismaili (1201 words)

	Ismailis
		I am a Shai Nizari Ismaili and have read various articles about the beliefs of the Ismailis and the claim of the Aga Khan as the descendent of Prophet Muhammad (s.a.s).
		also their was a question posed by a fellow Ismaili asking about the Aga Khan (for Shai Nizari Ismaili he is the 49th Imam) and his role.
		I for one can say that I do not worship him as a god and believe that this worship of him as a god is due to the cultural shock and mysticism surrounding the Imam during the spread of yes"> "Ismailism" to the Indian sub continent and various other places.
	www.understanding-islam.com /related/text.asp?type=rarticle&raid=240 (393 words)

	Wikinfo \| Ismaili
		However by the 10th century AD an Ismaili imam, Abdullah al-Mahdi, had emigrated to North Africa and had successfully established the new Fatimid state in Tunisia.
		The Fatimid state eventually collapsed after Mustaali's successor, al-Amir, was assasinated but Mustaalid Ismailis held that al-Amir had left a son named at-Tayyib who had gone into seclusion and that the imamate continued in his progeny during this time.
		Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Ismaili (778 words)

	Center Profile: Boston Nizari Ismaili Cultural Center
		Ismailis are a minority within the Islamic tradition, representing 10% of the general Shiite Muslim community.
		Founded in 1973, the Boston Nizari Ismaili Cultural Center began with students gathering at MIT, then at Harvard.
		In 1990, the community relocated to its present facility, which houses the jamat khana (house of congregation) and two small classrooms where religious education classes are held.
	www.pluralism.org /research/profiles/display.php?profile=68734 (211 words)

	The Revised History of the Ismaili Imams on the Ismaili Net
		HASAN bin SABBAH, the first Grand Master of Alamut also known as the dreaded "Old Man of the Mountain", claims to be an Ithna'ashri (the Twelver Shiah), by his birth and by the faith.
		In the Ismaili History he is known to be a Da'i - Missionary of the Ismaili faith.
		He was the first Ismaili Nizari Imam to be born in Iran.
	www.mostmerciful.com /revisedhistory-on-ismailinet.htm (727 words)

	UK Chatterbox Chat Rooms : What is the differance between a Muslim and an Ismaili? - Chat and Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The myths and legends of the Nizari Ismailis,
		Ismailis were coerced into what may be termed
		the ismaili are a sect of the shia
	www.ukchatterbox.co.uk /msg/155432 (1780 words)

	Search Tuna Report for aga khan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		He was succeeded by his grandson, Prince Karim, 1937, who as Aga Khan IV has devoted substantial Ismaili wealth to development projects in countries with a significant Ismaili population.
		The Hereditary Imam Of The Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims Is A Direct Descendant Of The Prophet Muhammad Through His Cousin And Son-In Ali, The First Imam, And His Wife Fatima, The Prophets Daughter....
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