Isma'ilism, the Glossary
Isma'ilism (translit) is a branch or sect of Shia Islam.[1]
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340 relations: Abbasid Caliphate, Abd al-Muttalib, Abd Allah al-Mahdi Billah, Abd Allah al-Radi, Abdallah (Ismaili missionary to Gujarat), Abdul Hussain Jivaji, Abdullah II of Jordan, Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi, Abu Tahir al-Jannabi, Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib, Abu'l-Fadl al-Isfahani, Abu'l-Qasim al-Tayyib, Adam, Afghanistan, Aga Khan, Aga Khan I, Aga Khan IV, Aghlabid dynasty, Ahmad al-Wafi, Ahmadnagar Sultanate, Ahmedabad, Aisha, Akadémiai Kiadó, Akhbari, Al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah, Al-Hafiz, Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah, Al-Musta'li, Al-Mustansir Billah, Al-Zahir li-I'zaz Din Allah, Alamut, Alamut Castle, Alavi Bohras, Alawites, Alevism, Ali, Ali al-Rida, Ali al-Sajjad, Alians, Aljamea-tus-Saifiyah, American Oriental Society, Amman Message, Angel, Angola, Anima mundi, Arwa al-Sulayhi, Ash'arism, Ashura, Assassination, ... Expand index (290 more) »
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Abbasid Caliphate
The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (translit) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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Abd al-Muttalib
Shayba ibn Hāshim (شَيْبة بْن هاشِم), better known as ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, (Muttalib) was the fourth chief of the Quraysh tribal confederation and grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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Abd Allah al-Mahdi Billah
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn (31 July 874 – 4 March 934), better known by his regnal name al-Mahdī biʾllāh (المهدي بالله, "The Rightly Guided by God"), was the founder of the Isma'ili Fatimid Caliphate, the only major Shi'a caliphate in Islamic history, and the eleventh Imam of the Isma'ili branch of Shi'ism.
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Abd Allah al-Radi
Abu ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl (ابو علي الحسين بن أحمد ٱبْن عَبْد ٱللَّٰه ٱبْن مُحَمَّد ٱبْن إسْماعِيل, 825 – 881), also known as al-Zakī, al-Raḍī and al-Muqtadā al-Hādī, was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the tenth of the Isma'ili Imams, succeeding his father, Muhammad al-Taqi.
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Abdallah (Ismaili missionary to Gujarat)
Abdallah was the first Isma'ili missionary in Gujarat.
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Abdul Hussain Jivaji
Abdul Hussayn Jivaji (also known as Maulana Malak) was the founder of the Atba-i-Malak branch of Mustaali Ismaili Shi'a Islam.
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Abdullah II of Jordan
Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein (born 30 January 1962) is King of Jordan, having ascended the throne on 7 February 1999.
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Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi
Abu Sa'id Hasan ibn Bahram al-Jannabi (845/855–913/914) was a Shia and the founder of the Qarmatian state in Bahrayn (an area comprising the eastern parts of modern Saudi Arabia as well as the Persian Gulf).
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Abu Tahir al-Jannabi
Abu Tahir Sulayman al-Jannabi (Abū Tāhir Sulaymān al-Jannābī, ابوطاهر سلیمانِ گناوهای Abu-Tāher Soleymān-e Genāve'i) was a Persian warlord and the ruler of the Qarmatian state in Bahrayn (Easternr of the Qarmatian state, Abu Tahir became leader of the state in 923, after ousting his older brother Abu'l-Qasim Sa'id.
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Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib
Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib (ʾAbū Ṭālib bin ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib) was the leader of Banu Hashim, a clan of the Qurayshi tribe of Mecca in the Hejazi region of the Arabian Peninsula.
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Abu'l-Fadl al-Isfahani
Abu'l-Fadl al-Isfahani, also known as the Isfahani Mahdi, was a young Persian man who in 931 CE was declared to be "God incarnate" by the Qarmatian leader of Bahrayn, Abu Tahir al-Jannabi.
See Isma'ilism and Abu'l-Fadl al-Isfahani
Abu'l-Qasim al-Tayyib
Abūʾl-Qāsim al-Ṭayyib ibn al-Āmir (أبو القاسمالطيب بن الآمر) was, according to the Tayyibi sect of Isma'ilism, the twenty-first imam.
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Adam
Adam is the name given in Genesis 1–5 to the first human.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.
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Aga Khan
Aga Khan (آقاخان, آغا خان; also transliterated as Aqa Khan and Agha Khan) is a title held by the Imām of the Nizari Ismāʿīli Shias.
Aga Khan I
Hasan Ali Shah (translit; 1804–1881), known as Aga Khan I (translit), was the 46th imam of the Nizari Isma'ilis.
Aga Khan IV
Prince Karim Al-Husseini (Shāh Karīm al-Ḥusaynī; born 13 December 1936), known as the Aga Khan IV (translit) since the death of his grandfather in 1957, is the 49th and current imam of Nizari Isma'ilis.
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Aghlabid dynasty
The Aghlabid dynasty (الأغالبة) was an Arab dynasty centered in Ifriqiya from 800 to 909 that conquered parts of Sicily, Southern Italy, and possibly Sardinia, nominally as vassals of the Abbasid Caliphate.
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Ahmad al-Wafi
Abū Aḥmad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl (أَبُو أَحْمَد عَبْد ٱللَّٰه ٱبْن مُحَمَّد ٱبْن إسْماعِيل, 766 – 828), was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the eight of the Isma'ili Imams, succeeding his father, Muhammad ibn Isma'il.
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Ahmadnagar Sultanate
The Sultanate of Ahmednagar or the Nizam Shahi Sultanate was a late medieval Indian Muslim kingdom located in the northwestern Deccan, between the sultanates of Gujarat and Bijapur, ruled by the Nizam Shahi or Bahri dynasty.
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Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad (is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 (per the 2011 population census) makes it the fifth-most populous city in India, and the encompassing urban agglomeration population estimated at 6,357,693 is the seventh-most populous in India.
Aisha
Aisha bint Abi Bakr was Islamic prophet Muhammad's third and youngest wife.
Akadémiai Kiadó
Akadémiai Kiadó is the publishing house of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
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Akhbari
Akhbarism (translit) is a minority school of Twelver Shia Islam.
Al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah
Abu Ali al-Mansur ibn al-Musta'li (translit; 31 December 1096 – 7 October 1130), better known by his regnal name al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah (translit) was the tenth Fatimid caliph, ruling from 1101 to his death in 1130, and the 20th imam of the Musta'li Isma'ili branch of Shia Islam.
See Isma'ilism and Al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah
Al-Hafiz
Abūʾl-Maymūn ʿAbd al-Majīd ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Mustanṣir, better known by his regnal name as al-Ḥāfiẓ li-Dīn Allāh (Keeper of God's Religion), was the eleventh Fatimid caliph, ruling over Egypt from 1132 to his death in 1149, and the 21st imam of Hafizi Isma'ilism.
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah
Abu Ali al-Mansur (13 August 985 – 13 February 1021), better known by his regnal name al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (translit), was the sixth Fatimid caliph and 16th Ismaili imam (996–1021).
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Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah
Abu Tamim Ma'ad al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah (Glorifier of the Religion of God; 26 September 932 – 19 December 975) was the fourth Fatimid caliph and the 14th Ismaili imam, reigning from 953 to 975.
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Al-Musta'li
Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn al-Mustanṣir (أبو القاسمأحمد بن المستنصر; 15/16 September 1074 – 12 December 1101), better known by his regnal name al-Mustaʿlī biʾllāh (المستعلي بالله), was the ninth Fatimid caliph and the nineteenth imam of Musta'li Ismailism.
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Al-Mustansir Billah
Abū Tamīm Maʿad al-Mustanṣir biʾllāh (أبو تميممعد المستنصر بالله.‎; 2 July 1029 – 29 December 1094) was the eighth Fatimid Caliph from 1036 until 1094.
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Al-Zahir li-I'zaz Din Allah
Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥākim (أبو الحسن علي ابن الحاكم; 20 June 1005 – 13 June 1036), better known with his regnal name al-Ẓāhir li-Iʿzāz Dīn Allāh (He Who Appears Openly to Strengthen the Religion of God), was the seventh caliph of the Fatimid dynasty (1021–1036).
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Alamut
Alamut (الموت) or Rudbar (رودبار) is a region in Iran including western and eastern parts on the western edge of the Alborz (Elburz) range, between the dry and barren plain of Qazvin in the south and the densely forested slopes of the Mazandaran province in the north.
Alamut Castle
Alamut (الموت) is a mountain fortress at an altitude of 2163 meters at the central Alborz, in the Iranian stanza of Qazvin, about 100 kilometers from Tehran.
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Alavi Bohras
The Alavi Bohras are a Tayyibi Musta'lavi Isma'ili Shi'i Muslim community from Gujarat, India.
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Alawites
The Alawites, also known as Nusayrites, are an Arab ethnoreligious group that live primarily in the Levant and follow Alawism, a religious sect that splintered from early Shi'ism as a ghulat branch during the ninth century. Isma'ilism and Alawites are esoteric schools of thought.
Alevism
Alevism (Alevilik;; Ələvilik) is a heterodox and syncretic Islamic tradition, whose adherents follow the mystical Islamic teachings of Haji Bektash Veli, who supposedly taught the teachings of the Twelve Imams, whilst incorporating some traditions from Tengrism.
Ali
Ali ibn Abi Talib (translit) was the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and was the fourth Rashidun caliph who ruled from 656 to 661, as well as the first Shia imam.
Ali al-Rida
Ali ibn Musa al-Rida (ʿAlī ibn Mūsā al-Riḍā, 1 January 766 – 6 June 818), also known as Abū al-Ḥasan al-Thānī, was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and the eighth imam in Twelver Shia Islam, succeeding his father, Musa al-Kazim.
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Ali al-Sajjad
Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Sajjad (translit, 712), also known as Zayn al-Abidin (lit) was the great-grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and the fourth imam in Shia Islam, succeeding his father, Husayn ibn Ali, his uncle, Hasan ibn Ali, and his grandfather, Ali ibn Abi Talib.
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Alians
The Alian Kızılbaşī community (in Bulgarian: алиани, in Turkish: Alevi), are a Shi`a order, similar to the Sufi Mevlevi, who live in several regions of Bulgaria.
Aljamea-tus-Saifiyah
Aljamea-tus-Saifiyah is an Arabic academy dedicated to Islamic learning based in India, Pakistan, and Kenya.
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American Oriental Society
The American Oriental Society is a learned society that encourages basic research in the languages and literatures of the Near East and Asia.
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Amman Message
The Amman Message (translit) is a statement calling for tolerance and unity in the Muslim world that was issued on 9 November 2004 (27 Ramadan 1425 AH) by King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein of Jordan, and his advisor Sheikh Izz-Eddine Al-Tamimi.
See Isma'ilism and Amman Message
Angel
In Abrahamic religious traditions (such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) and some sects of other belief-systems like Hinduism and Buddhism, an angel is a heavenly supernatural or spiritual being.
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.
Anima mundi
The anima mundi (Latin), world soul (ψυχὴ κόσμου), or soul of the world (ψυχὴ τοῦ κόσμου) is an intrinsic connection between all living beings according to several systems of thought, which hold that it relates to the world in much the same way as the animating force or immortal soul is connected to the human body.
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Arwa al-Sulayhi
Arwa al-Sulayhi (translit), was a long-reigning ruler of Yemen, firstly as the co-ruler of her first two husbands and then as sole ruler, from 1067 until her death in 1138. She was the last of the rulers of the Sulayhid Dynasty and was also the first woman to be accorded the prestigious title of Hujjah in the Isma'ili branch of Shia Islam, signifying her as the closest living image of God's will in her lifetime, in the Ismaili doctrine.
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Ash'arism
Ash'arism (translit) is a school of theology in Sunni Islam named after Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari, a Shāfiʿī jurist, reformer (mujaddid), and scholastic theologian, in the 9th–10th century.
Ashura
Ashura is a day of commemoration in Islam.
Assassination
Assassination is the willful killing, by a sudden, secret, or planned attack, of a personespecially if prominent or important.
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Ata-Malik Juvayni
Atâ-Malek Juvayni (عطاملک جوینی; 1226–1283), in full, Ala al-Din Ata-ullah (علاءالدین عطاءالله), was a Persian historian and an official of the Mongol state who wrote an account of the Mongol Empire entitled Tarikh-i Jahangushay ("History of the World Conqueror").
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Atba-e-Malak
The Atba-e-Malak community are a branch of Musta'ali Isma'ili Shi'a Islam that broke off from the mainstream Dawoodi Bohra after the death of the 46th Da'i al-Mutlaq, under the leadership of Moulana Abdul Hussain Jivaji Saheb in 1890.
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Atba-e-Malak Badar
The Atba-i-Malak Badar are a branch of Atba-i-Malak Mustaali Ismaili Shi'a Islam.
See Isma'ilism and Atba-e-Malak Badar
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
Ayyubid dynasty
The Ayyubid dynasty (الأيوبيون; Eyûbiyan), also known as the Ayyubid Sultanate, was the founding dynasty of the medieval Sultanate of Egypt established by Saladin in 1171, following his abolition of the Fatimid Caliphate of Egypt.
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Āyah
An āyah (آية,; آيات) is a "verse" in the Quran, one of the statements of varying length that make up the chapters (surah) of the Quran and are marked by a number.
Badakhshan
Badakhshan is a historical region comprising parts of modern-day north-eastern Afghanistan, eastern Tajikistan, and Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County in China.
Baghdad Manifesto
The Baghdad Manifesto was a polemical tract issued in 1011 on behalf of the Abbasid caliph al-Qadir against the rival Isma'ili Fatimid Caliphate.
See Isma'ilism and Baghdad Manifesto
Baha al-Din al-Muqtana
Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Ahmad al-Sammuqi (translit; died after 1042), better known as Baha al-Din al-Muqtana (translit), was an 11th-century Isma'ili missionary, and one of the founders of the Druze religion.
See Isma'ilism and Baha al-Din al-Muqtana
Bahrain
Bahrain (Two Seas, locally), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, is an island country in West Asia.
Bangladesh
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.
Banu Hilal
The Banu Hilal (translit) was a confederation of Arab tribes from the Najd region of the central Arabian Peninsula that emigrated to the Maghreb region of North Africa in the 11th century.
Banu Yam
Banu Yam (بنو يام) is an Arabian tribe that belongs to the Qahtanite branch of Arabian tribes, specifically the group known as Banu Hamdan, and are, therefore, native to southwestern Arabia.
Batin (Islam)
Bāṭin or baten (باطن) literally means "inner", "inward", "hidden", etc.
See Isma'ilism and Batin (Islam)
Batiniyya
Batiniyya (Bāṭiniyyah) refers to groups that distinguish between an outer, exoteric (zāhir) and an inner, esoteric (bāṭin) meaning in Islamic scriptures. Isma'ilism and Batiniyya are esoteric schools of thought and Ismailism.
Battle of the Camel
The Battle of the Camel took place outside of Basra, Iraq, in 36 AH (656 CE).
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Böszörmény
Böszörmény, also Izmaelita or Hysmaelita ("Ishmaelites") or Szerecsen ("Saracens"), is a name for the Muslims who lived in the Kingdom of Hungary in the 10–13th centuries.
Beirut
Beirut (help) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.
Bektashi Order
The Bektashi Order or Bektashism is an Islamic Sufi mystic order originating in the 13th-century Ottoman Empire.
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Black Stone
The Black Stone (translit) is a rock set into the eastern corner of the Kaaba, the ancient building in the center of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
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Blacksmith
A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects primarily from wrought iron or steel, but sometimes from other metals, by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut (cf. tinsmith).
Brethren of Purity
The Brethren of Purity (Ikhwān Al-Ṣafā; also The Brethren of Sincerity) were a secret society of Muslim philosophers in Basra, Iraq, in the 9th or 10th century CE. Isma'ilism and Brethren of Purity are esoteric schools of thought.
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Burhan Nizam Shah I
Burhan Nizam Shah I (برهان نظامشاه یکم) was ruler of the Ahmednagar Sultanate, in Central India.
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Burqa
A burqa or a burka (برقع) is an enveloping outer garment worn by some Muslim women which fully covers the body and the face.
Burushaski
Burushaski is a language isolate, spoken by the Burusho people, who predominantly reside in northern Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.
Burusho people
The Burusho, or Brusho (Burushaski:, burúśuHunzai, A. N. N., Burushaski Research Academy, & University of Karachi. (2006). Burushaski Urdu Dictionary - Volume 1 / بروشسکی اردو لغت - جلد اول (الف تا څ). Bureau of Composition, Compilation & Translation, University of Karachi.
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Caliphate
A caliphate or khilāfah (خِلَافَةْ) is a monarchical form of government (initially elective, later absolute) that originated in the 7th century Arabia, whose political identity is based on a claim of succession to the Islamic State of Muhammad and the identification of a monarch called caliph (خَلِيفَةْ) as his heir and successor.
Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
Central Asia
Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
Consultant
A consultant (from consultare "to deliberate") is a professional (also known as expert, specialist, see variations of meaning below) who provides advice or services in an area of specialization (generally to medium or large-size corporations).
Crypto-Islam
Crypto-Islam is the secret adherence to Islam while publicly professing to be of another faith; people who practice crypto-Islam are referred to as "crypto-Muslims." The word has mainly been used in reference to Spanish Muslims and Sicilian Muslims during the Inquisition (i.e., the Moriscos and Saraceni and their usage of Aljamiado).
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Da'i
A da'i (inviter, caller) is generally someone who engages in Dawah, the act of inviting people to Islam.
Da'i al-Mutlaq
(translit; pl. دعاة مطلقون) literally meaning 'the absolute, or unrestricted, missionary', is the most senior spiritual rank and office in Tayyibi Isma'ilism.
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Dawah
(دعوة,, "invitation", also spelt dâvah,,, or dakwah) is the act of inviting people to Islam.
Dawoodi Bohra
The Dawoodi Bohras are a religious denomination within the Ismā'īlī branch of Shia Islam.
See Isma'ilism and Dawoodi Bohra
Der Islam
Der Islam: Journal of the History and Culture of the Middle East is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on the history and culture of the Middle East.
Dhu'ayb ibn Musa
Dhu'ayb ibn Musa al-Wadi'i al-Hamdani (died 29 April 1151) was the first dāʿī al-muṭlaq, a position of spiritual authority in Tayyibi Isma'ili Islam.
See Isma'ilism and Dhu'ayb ibn Musa
Diaspora
A diaspora is a population that is scattered across regions which are separate from its geographic place of origin.
Divine call
The divine call, unitarian call, or da‘wat at-tawḥīd is the time period of Druze proselytization that was opened at sunset on Thursday 30 May 1017 CE by Fātimid Caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah and closed in 1043 CE by al-Muqtana Baha'uddin, henceforth prohibiting anyone else from converting to the Druze religion.
See Isma'ilism and Divine call
Druze
The Druze (دَرْزِيّ, or دُرْزِيّ, rtl), who call themselves al-Muwaḥḥidūn (lit. 'the monotheists' or 'the unitarians'), are an Arab and Arabic-speaking esoteric ethnoreligious group from West Asia who adhere to the Druze faith, an Abrahamic, monotheistic, syncretic, and ethnic religion whose main tenets assert the unity of God, reincarnation, and the eternity of the soul. Isma'ilism and Druze are esoteric schools of thought.
Dushanbe
Dushanbe is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan.
East Africa
East Africa, also known as Eastern Africa or the East of Africa, is a region at the eastern edge of the African continent, distinguished by its geographical, historical, and cultural landscape.
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Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
Egyptian Arabic
Egyptian Arabic, locally known as Colloquial Egyptian (اللغة العامية المصرية.), or simply Masri (also Masry) (مَصرى), is the most widely spoken vernacular Arabic variety in Egypt.
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Empire
An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries".
Encyclopædia Iranica
Encyclopædia Iranica is a project whose goal is to create a comprehensive and authoritative English-language encyclopedia about the history, culture, and civilization of Iranian peoples from prehistory to modern times.
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Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity
The Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity (رسائل إخوان الصفا, Rasā'il Ikhwān al-ṣafā') also variously known as the Epistles of the Brethren of Sincerity, Epistles of the Brethren of Purity and Epistles of the Brethren of Purity and Loyal Friends is an Islamic encyclopedia"The work only professes to be an epitome, an outline; its authors lay claim to no originality, they only summarize what others have thought and discovered.
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Epistles of Wisdom
The Epistles of Wisdom (translit) is a corpus of sacred texts and pastoral letters by teachers of the Druze faith native to the Levant, which has currently close to a million practitioners.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Far East
The Far East is the geographical region that encompasses the easternmost portion of the Asian continent, including East, North, and Southeast Asia.
Fasting in Islam
In Islam, fasting (known as, صوم; or, صيام) is the practice of abstaining, usually from food, drink, sexual activity and anything which substitutes food and drink.
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Fatima
Fatima bint Muhammad (Fāṭima bint Muḥammad; 605/15–632 CE), commonly known as Fatima al-Zahra' (Fāṭima al-Zahrāʾ), was the daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his wife Khadija.
Fatimid Caliphate
The Fatimid Caliphate or Fatimid Empire (al-Khilāfa al-Fāṭimiyya) was a caliphate extant from the tenth to the twelfth centuries CE under the rule of the Fatimids, an Isma'ili Shia dynasty. Isma'ilism and Fatimid Caliphate are Ismailism.
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Fatimid dynasty
The Fatimid dynasty was an Arab dynasty that ruled the Fatimid Caliphate, between 909 and 1171 CE.
See Isma'ilism and Fatimid dynasty
Fatwa
A fatwa (translit; label) is a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law (sharia) given by a qualified Islamic jurist (faqih) in response to a question posed by a private individual, judge or government.
Fiqh
Fiqh (فقه) is Islamic jurisprudence.
First Crusade
The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church in the Middle Ages.
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Gabriel
In the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Baháʼí Faith), Gabriel is an archangel with the power to announce God's will to mankind.
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan (born Temüjin; August 1227), also known as Chinggis Khan, was the founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire.
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Ghulat
The (exaggerators, extremists) were a branch of early Shiʿa.
Gnosticism
Gnosticism (from Ancient Greek:, romanized: gnōstikós, Koine Greek: ɣnostiˈkos, 'having knowledge') is a collection of religious ideas and systems that coalesced in the late 1st century AD among Jewish and early Christian sects. Isma'ilism and Gnosticism are esoteric schools of thought.
God in Islam
In Islam, God (Allāh, contraction of ٱلْإِلَٰه, lit.) is seen as the creator and sustainer of the universe, who lives eternally and will eventually resurrect all humans.
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Gorno-Badakhshan
Gorno-Badakhshan, officially the Badakhshan Mountainous Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region in eastern Tajikistan, in the Pamir Mountains.
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Gujarati language
Gujarati (label) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian state of Gujarat and spoken predominantly by the Gujarati people.
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Haatim Zakiyuddin
Syedna Haatim Zakiyuddin (Arabic: حاتمزکي الدین) (born 10 September 1959), is the 45th Saiyedna and Da'i al-Mutlaq of Alavi Bohras and Naa'ib (نائب) representative, vicar, legatee and deputy of the progeny of 21st Fatimid Isma'ili Imam Abul Qaasim at-Taiyeb during the time of his Concealment from Cairo in 528 AH/1132 AD which is called Daur us Satr (دور الستر).
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Hadith
Hadith (translit) or Athar (أثر) is a form of Islamic oral tradition containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the prophet Muhammad.
Hafizi Isma'ilism
Hafizi Isma'ilism (translit), also known as Majidi Isma'ilism, was a branch of Musta'li Isma'ilism that emerged as a result of a split in 1132.
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Hajj
Hajj (translit; also spelled Hadj, Haj or Haji) is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims.
Hamdan Qarmat
Hamdan Qarmat ibn al-Ash'ath (Ḥamdān Qarmaṭ ibn al-Ashʿath; CE) was the eponymous founder of the Qarmatian sect of Isma'ilism.
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Hamdanids (Yemen)
The Yemeni Hamdanids (الهمدانيون) was a series of three families descended from the Arab Banū Hamdān tribe, who ruled in northern Yemen between 1099 and 1174.
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Hamza ibn Ali
Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmad (translit; –c. 1021) was an 11th-century Persian Ismai'li missionary and founding leader of the Druze.
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Hanbali school
The Hanbali school or Hanbalism (translit) is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam.
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Haqiqa
Haqiqa (Arabic rtl ḥaqīqa "truth") is one of "the four stages" in Sufism, shari’a (exoteric path), tariqa (esoteric path), haqiqa (mystical truth) and marifa (final mystical knowledge, unio mystica).
Hasan ibn Ali
Hasan ibn Ali (translit; 2 April 670) was an Alid political and religious leader.
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Hasan Pir
Syedi Hasan Pir was a Taiyabi Ismaili saint of the 14th century in India.
Hasan-i Sabbah
Hasan-i Sabbah (1050 – 12 June 1124), also known as Hasan I of Alamut, was a religious and military leader, founder of the Nizari Ismai'li sect widely known as the Hashshashin or the Order of Assassins, as well as the Nizari Ismaili state, ruling from 1090 to 1124 AD.
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Hebtiahs Bohra
The Hebtiahs Bohra were a branch of Mustaali Ismaili Shi'a Islam that broke off from the mainstream Dawoodi Bohra after the death of the 39th Da'i al-Mutlaq in 1754.
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Hejaz
The Hejaz (also; lit) is a region that includes the majority of the west coast of Saudi Arabia, covering the cities of Mecca, Medina, Jeddah, Tabuk, Yanbu, Taif and Baljurashi.
Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics is the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts.
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High Middle Ages
The High Middle Ages, or High Medieval Period, was the period of European history that lasted from AD 1000 to 1300.
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Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik
Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (translit; 6 February 743) was the tenth Umayyad caliph, ruling from 724 until his death in 743.
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Hosay
Hosay (originally from Husayn) is a Muslim Indo-Caribbean commemoration that is popularly observed in Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica.
House of Wisdom
The House of Wisdom (بَيْت الْحِكْمَة), also known as the Grand Library of Baghdad, was believed to be a major Abbasid-era public academy and intellectual center in Baghdad.
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Hulegu Khan
Hulegu Khan, also known as Hülegü or Hulaguᠬᠦᠯᠡᠭᠦ|lit.
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Husayn ibn Ali
Imam Husayn ibn Ali (translit; 11 January 626 – 10 October 680) was a social, political and religious leader.
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Hyderabad
Hyderabad (ISO) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana.
Hypostasis (philosophy and religion)
Hypostasis (plural: hypostases), from the Greek italic (hypóstasis), is the underlying, fundamental state or substance that supports all of reality.
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Ibn Taymiyya
Ibn Taymiyya (ٱبْن تَيْمِيَّة; 22 January 1263 – 26 September 1328)Ibn Taymiyya, Taqi al-Din Ahmad, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam.
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Idris Imad al-Din
Idris Imad al-Din ibn al-Hasan al-Qurashi (translit; 1392 – 10 June 1468) was the 19th of Tayyibi Isma'ilis from 1428 to 1468.
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Imam
Imam (إمام,;: أئمة) is an Islamic leadership position.
Imamate
The term imamate or imamah (إمامة, imāmah) means "leadership" and refers to the office of an imam or a Muslim theocratic state ruled by an imam.
Imamate in Ismaili doctrine
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.
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Imamate in Nizari doctrine
The Imamate in Nizari Isma'ili doctrine (إمامة) is a concept in Nizari Isma'ilism which defines the political, religious and spiritual dimensions of authority concerning Islamic leadership over the nation of believers.
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Imamate in Shia doctrine
In Shia Islam, the Imamah (إمامة) is a doctrine which asserts that certain individuals from the lineage of the Islamic prophet Muhammad are to be accepted as leaders and guides of the ummah after the death of Muhammad.
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Immanence
The doctrine or theory of immanence holds that the divine encompasses or is manifested in the material world.
Incarnation
Incarnation literally means embodied in flesh or taking on flesh.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approx.
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Infidel
An infidel (literally "unfaithful") is a person who is accused of disbelief in the central tenets of one's own religion, such as members of another religion, or irreligious people.
Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography
The Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography or N.N. Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology (Институт этнологии и антропологии им.; abbreviated as ИЭА in Russian and IEA in English) is a Russian institute of research, specializing in ethnographic studies of cultural and physical anthropology.
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Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) is a scholarly online encyclopedia with 880 articles about philosophy, philosophers, and related topics.
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Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
Iranian peoples
The Iranian peoples or Iranic peoples are a diverse grouping of peoples who are identified by their usage of the Iranian languages (branch of the Indo-European languages) and other cultural similarities.
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Iraq
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.
Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
Islamic eschatology
Islamic eschatology (عِلْمآخر الزمان في الإسلام) is a field of study in Islam concerning future events that would happen in the end times.
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Islamic Philosophy from its Origin to the Present
Islamic Philosophy from its Origin to the Present: Philosophy in the Land of Prophecy is a book by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Iranian philosopher and University Professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University.
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Isma'il ibn Ja'far
Isma'il ibn Ja'far (translit) was the eldest son of Ja'far al-Sadiq and the sixth Imam in Isma'ilism.
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Isma'ilism
Isma'ilism (translit) is a branch or sect of Shia Islam. Isma'ilism and Isma'ilism are esoteric schools of thought and Ismailism.
Ja'far al-Sadiq
Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Sadiq (translit; –765 CE) was a Shia Muslim scholar, jurist, and theologian, and the sixth imam of the Twelver and Isma'ili branches of Shia Islam.
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Ja'fari school
The Jaʿfarī school, also known as the Jafarite school, Jaʿfarī fiqh (الفقه الجعفري) or Ja'fari jurisprudence, is a prominent school of jurisprudence (fiqh) within Twelver and Ismaili (including Nizari) Shia Islam, named after the sixth Imam, Ja'far al-Sadiq.
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Jabal Haraz
Jabal Haraz (Jabal Ḥarāz) is a mountainous region of Yemen, between Sanaa and Al-Hudaydah, which is considered to be within the Sarat range.
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Jama'at Khana
Jamatkhana or Jamat Khana (from جماعت خانه, literally "congregational place") is an amalgamation derived from the Arabic word jama‘a (gathering) and the Persian word khana (house, place).
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James R. Lewis (scholar)
James Roger Lewis (November 3, 1949 – October 11, 2022) was an American philosophy professor at Wuhan University.
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
Jews
The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
Jihad
Jihad (jihād) is an Arabic word which literally means "exerting", "striving", or "struggling", especially with a praiseworthy aim.
Jordan
Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia.
Journal of the American Oriental Society
The Journal of the American Oriental Society is a quarterly academic journal published by the American Oriental Society since 1843.
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Kaaba
The Kaaba, sometimes referred to as al-Ka'ba al-Musharrafa, is a stone building at the center of Islam's most important mosque and holiest site, the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Karachi
Karachi (کراچی) is the capital city of the Pakistani province of Sindh.
Karbala
Karbala or Kerbala (Karbalāʾ) is a city in central Iraq, located about southwest of Baghdad, and a few miles east of Lake Milh, also known as Razzaza Lake.
Kaysanites
The Kaysanites were a Shi'i sect of Islam that formed from the followers of Al-Mukhtar.
Kharijites
The Kharijites (translit, singular) were an Islamic sect which emerged during the First Fitna (656–661).
Khoja
The Khoja are a mainly Shia tribe of people originally from the western Indian subcontinent.
Khuzaima Qutbuddin
Abu Taher Khuzaima Qutbuddin (5 June 1940 30 March 2016) was the son of the 51st Da'i al-Mutlaq, half brother of the 52nd Da'i and a Mazoon of the Dawoodi Bohras, a subgroup within the Mustaali, Ismaili Shia branch of Islam.
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Kingdom of Hungary
The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from the Middle Ages into the 20th century.
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Kufa
Kufa (الْكُوفَة), also spelled Kufah, is a city in Iraq, about south of Baghdad, and northeast of Najaf.
Kuwait
Kuwait, officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in West Asia.
Lebanon
Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.
Levant
The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia and core territory of the political term ''Middle East''.
Lisan ud-Dawat
Lisaan ud-Da'wat or Lisaan o Da'wat il Bohra or Lisan ud-Dawat (Da'wat, da'wat ni zabaan; abbreviated LDB) is the language of the Dawoodi Bohras and Alavi Bohras, two Isma'ili Shi'a Muslim communities primarily in Gujarat, following the Taiyebi doctrines and theology.
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List of Assassin strongholds
List of the strongholds or dar al-hijra of the Order of Assassins in Persia (Iran) and Syria.
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List of Dai of the Dawoodi Bohra
This is a list of Dai of the Dawoodi Bohra.
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List of extinct Shia sects
The following is a list of extinct unorthodox movements within Shia Islam.
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List of Isma'ili imams
This is a list of the Imams as recognized by the different sub-sects of the Ismai'li sect of Shia Islam.
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List of Isma'ili missionaries
This is a list of Isma'ili missionaries (da'is).
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List of the Order of Assassins
The order of Assassins was founded in Persia in 1090 by Hassan-i Sabbah.
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Madhhab
A madhhab (way to act,, pl. label) refers to any school of thought within Islamic jurisprudence.
Maghreb
The Maghreb (lit), also known as the Arab Maghreb (اَلْمَغْرِبُ الْعَرَبِيُّ) and Northwest Africa, is the western part of the Arab world.
Mahdi
The Mahdi (lit) is a figure in Islamic eschatology who is believed to appear at the End of Times to rid the world of evil and injustice.
Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.
Maturidism
Maturidism (translit) is a school of theology in Sunni Islam named after Abu Mansur al-Maturidi.
Mecca
Mecca (officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah) is the capital of Mecca Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia and the holiest city according to Islam.
Medina
Medina, officially Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah, is the capital of Medina Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia.
Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.
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Michael (archangel)
Michael, also called Saint Michael the Archangel, Archangel Michael and Saint Michael the Taxiarch is an archangel in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the Baha'i faith.
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Middle East
The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
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Monism
Monism attributes oneness or singleness to a concept, such as to existence.
Mu'awiya I
Mu'awiya I (Muʿāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān; –April 680) was the founder and first caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate, ruling from 661 until his death.
Mu'tazilism
Mu'tazilism (translit, singular translit) was an Islamic sect that appeared in early Islamic history and flourished in Basra and Baghdad.
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Mufaddal Saifuddin
Syedna Dr.
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Muhammad
Muhammad (570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam.
Muhammad al-Baqir
Muhammad ibn Ali al-Baqir (translit) was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the fifth of the twelve Shia imams, succeeding his father, Ali al-Sajjad, and succeeded by his son, Ja'far al-Sadiq.
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Muhammad al-Jawad
Muhammad ibn Ali al-Jawad (Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Jawād, – 29 November 835) was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the ninth of the Twelve Imams, succeeding his father, Ali al-Rida.
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Muhammad al-Mahdi
Muhammad ibn Hasan al-Mahdi (translit) is believed by the Twelver Shia and Sunni Naqshbandiyya to be the last of the Twelve Imams and the eschatological Mahdi, who will emerge in the end of time to establish peace and justice and redeem Islam.
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Muhammad al-Taqi
Abu al-Husayn Ahmad ibn Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Isma'il (translit), commonly known as Muhammad al-Taqi (lit), was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the ninth of the Isma'ili Imams, succeeding his father, Ahmad al-Wafi.
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Muhammad ibn Isma'il
Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Maktum was the eldest son of Isma'il al-Mubarak and the seventh imam in Isma'ilism.
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Muharram
Muharram (translit) is the first month of the Islamic calendar.
Mumbai
Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
Musa al-Kazim
Musa ibn Ja'far al-Kazim (translit) was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the seventh imam in Twelver Shia Islam.
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Muslims
Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
Musta'li Ismailism
Musta'li Isma'ilism (translit) is a branch of Isma'ilism named for their acceptance of al-Musta'li as the legitimate nineteenth Fatimid caliph and legitimate successor to his father, al-Mustansir Billah.
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Mysticism
Mysticism is popularly known as becoming one with God or the Absolute, but may refer to any kind of ecstasy or altered state of consciousness which is given a religious or spiritual meaning.
Nader El-Bizri
Nader El-Bizri (نادر البزري, nādir al-bizrĩ) is the Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Sharjah.
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Najran
Najran (نجران), is a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia.
Nasir al-Din Nasir Hunzai
Partaw-i Shah Nasir al-Din Nasir Hubb-i 'Ali Hunzai (15 May 1917 – 14 January 2017), known also as 'Allamah (lit. learned) Hunzai, 'Allamah Sahib, or by his epithets, Baba-yi Burushaski (lit. The Father of Burushaski), Lisan al-Qawm (lit. The Nation's Spokesman) and Hakim al-Qalam (lit.
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Nasir Khusraw
Nasir Khusraw (ناصرخسرو; 1004 – between 1072–1088) was an Isma'ili poet, philosopher, traveler, and missionary for the Isma'ili Fatimid Caliphate.
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Nauka (publisher)
Nauka (lit) is a Russian publisher of academic books and journals.
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Nūr (Islam)
Nūr (النور) is a term in Islamic context referring to the "cold light of the night" or "heatless light" i.e. the light of the moon.
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Neoplatonism
Neoplatonism is a version of Platonic philosophy that emerged in the 3rd century AD against the background of Hellenistic philosophy and religion.
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New moon
In astronomy, the new moon is the first lunar phase, when the Moon and Sun have the same ecliptic longitude.
New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Nizar ibn al-Mustansir
Abu Mansur Nizar ibn al-Mustansir (Abū Manṣūr Nizār ibn al-Mustanṣir; 1045–1095) was a Fatimid prince, and the oldest son of the eighth Fatimid caliph and eighteenth Isma'ili imam, al-Mustansir.
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Nizari Isma'ilism
Nizari Isma'ilism (translit) are the largest segment of the Ismaili Muslims, who are the second-largest branch of Shia Islam after the Twelvers.
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Nizari Ismaili state
The Nizari state (the Alamut state) was a Nizari Isma'ili Shia state founded by Hassan-i Sabbah after he took control of the Alamut Castle in 1090 AD, which marked the beginning of an era of Ismailism known as the "Alamut period".
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North Africa
North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.
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North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
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Nous
Nous, from, is a concept from classical philosophy, sometimes equated to intellect or intelligence, for the faculty of the human mind necessary for understanding what is true or real.
Nur al-Din Zengi
Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd Zengī (نور الدين محمود زنگي; February 1118 – 15 May 1174), commonly known as Nur ad-Din (lit. 'Light of the Faith' in Arabic), was a Turkoman member of the Zengid dynasty, who ruled the Syrian province of the Seljuk Empire.
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Occultation (Islam)
Occultation (غَيْبَة) in Shia Islam refers to the eschatological belief that the Mahdi, a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, has already been born and he was subsequently concealed, but he will reemerge and he will establish justice and peace on earth at the end of time.
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Order of Assassins
The Order of Assassins or simply the Assassins (Ḥaššāšīn) were a Nizari Isma'ili order that existed between 1090 and 1275 AD, founded by Hassan-i Sabbah.
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Ottoman Hungary
Ottoman Hungary (Török hódoltság, literally "the Turkish subjugation") encompassed those parts of the Kingdom of Hungary which were under the rule of the Ottoman Empire from the occupation of Buda in 1541 for more than 150 years, until the liberation of the area under Habsburg leadership (1686–1699).
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Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.
Palestine (region)
The region of Palestine, also known as Historic Palestine, is a geographical area in West Asia.
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Paradise
In religion, paradise is a place of everlasting happiness, delight, and bliss.
People of the Book
People of the Book or Ahl al-kitāb (أهل الكتاب) is an Islamic term referring to followers of those religions which Muslims regard as having been guided by previous revelations, generally in the form of a scripture.
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Perennial philosophy
The perennial philosophy (philosophia perennis), also referred to as perennialism and perennial wisdom, is a school of thought in philosophy and spirituality which posits that the recurrence of common themes across world religions illuminates universal truths about the nature of reality, humanity, ethics, and consciousness.
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Persian alphabet
The Persian alphabet (translit), also known as the Perso-Arabic script, is the right-to-left alphabet used for the Persian language.
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Persian language
Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.
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Physician
A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.
Pir (Sufism)
Pir (lit) or Peer is a title for a Sufi spiritual guide.
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Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad
Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad (born 15 October 1966) is a Jordanian prince and a professor of philosophy.
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Progressive Dawoodi Bohra
Progressive Dawoodi Bohra also known as Bohra Youth is a reform movement within the Dawoodi Bohra subsect of Mustaali Ismai'li Shi'a Islam.
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Prometheus Books
Prometheus Books is a publishing company founded in August 1969 by the philosopher Paul Kurtz (who was also the founder of the Council for Secular Humanism, Center for Inquiry, and co-founder of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry).
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Prophets and messengers in Islam
Prophets in Islam (translit) are individuals in Islam who are believed to spread God's message on Earth and serve as models of ideal human behaviour.
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Punjab, Pakistan
Punjab (abbr. PB) is a province of Pakistan.
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Qajar dynasty
The Qajar dynasty (translit; 1789–1925) was an Iranian dynasty founded by Mohammad Khan of the Qoyunlu clan of the Turkoman Qajar tribe.
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Qarmatians
The Qarmatians (Qarāmiṭa) were a militant Isma'ili Shia movement centred in al-Hasa in Eastern Arabia, where they established a religious—and, as some scholars have claimed, proto-socialist or utopian socialist—state in 899 CE.
Qasida
The qaṣīda (also spelled qaṣīdah; plural qaṣā’id) is an ancient Arabic word and form of poetry, often translated as ode,.
Qibla
The qibla (lit) is the direction towards the Kaaba in the Sacred Mosque in Mecca, which is used by Muslims in various religious contexts, particularly the direction of prayer for the salah.
Qom
Qom (قم) is a city in the Central District of Qom County, Qom province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district.
Quran
The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah).
Rajasthan
Rajasthan (lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northwestern India.
Ramadan
Ramadan (Ramaḍān; also spelled Ramazan, Ramzan, Ramadhan, or Ramathan) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (sawm), prayer (salah), reflection, and community.
Rashid al-Din Hamadani
Rashīd al-Dīn Ṭabīb (رشیدالدین طبیب;‎ 1247–1318; also known as Rashīd al-Dīn Faḍlullāh Hamadānī, رشیدالدین فضلالله همدانی) was a statesman, historian and physician in Ilkhanate Iran.
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Rashidun Caliphate
The Rashidun Caliphate (al-Khilāfah ar-Rāšidah) was the first caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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Red Sea
The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia.
Reincarnation
Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death.
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Religion
Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.
Ritual purity in Islam
Purity (طهارة, ṭahāra(h)) is an essential aspect of Islam.
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Rump state
A rump state is the remnant of a once much larger state, left with a greatly reduced territory in the wake of secession, annexation, occupation, decolonization, or a successful coup d'état or revolution on part of its former territory.
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
Saladin
Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (– 4 March 1193), commonly known as Saladin, was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty.
Salah
Salah is the principal form of worship in Islam.
Satpanth
Satpanth is a Sanskrit term, given to a diverse group of individuals who follow Pir Sadardin.
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East.
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Sayyid
Sayyid (سيد;; meaning 'sir', 'Lord', 'Master'; Arabic plural: سادة; feminine: سيدة) is an honorific title of Hasanids and Husaynids Muslims, recognized as descendants of the Arab companion Ali through his sons, Hasan ibn Ali and Husayn ibn Ali.
Secularity
Secularity, also the secular or secularness (from Latin saeculum, "worldly" or "of a generation"), is the state of being unrelated or neutral in regards to religion.
Seljuk Empire
The Seljuk Empire, or the Great Seljuk Empire, was a high medieval, culturally Turco-Persian, Sunni Muslim empire, established and ruled by the Qïnïq branch of Oghuz Turks.
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Seraphiel
Seraphiel (Hebrew: שׂרפיאל, meaning "seraph of god or god is my seraph") is the name of an angel in the apocryphal Book of Enoch.
Sevener
al-Ismāʿīliyya al-khāliṣa / al-Ismāʿīliyya al-wāqifa or Seveners (سبعية) was a branch of Ismā'īlī Shīʻa. Isma'ilism and Sevener are Ismailism.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Seyyed Hossein Nasr (سید حسین نصر, born April 7, 1933) is an Iranian-American philosopher, theologian and Islamic scholar.
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Shafi'i school
The Shafi'i school or Shafi'ism (translit) is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam.
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Shams al-Din Muhammad (Nizari imam)
Shams al-Din Muhammad (translit; before 1256 –) was the 28th imam of the Nizari Isma'ili community.
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Sharia
Sharia (sharīʿah) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and hadith.
Shia Islam
Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.
Shirk (Islam)
Shirk (lit) in Islam is a sin often roughly translated as 'idolatry' or 'polytheism', but more accurately meaning 'association '. It refers to accepting other divinities or powers alongside God as associates.
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Sicily
Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.
Sidon
Sidon or Saida (Ṣaydā) is the third-largest city in Lebanon.
Sistan
Sistān (سیستان), also known as Sakastān (سَكاستان "the land of the Saka") and Sijistan, is a historical region in present-day south-eastern Iran, south-western Afghanistan and extending across the borders of south-western Pakistan.
Slavery in China
Slavery in China has taken various forms throughout history.
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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South Asia
South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms.
Succession to the 52nd Dai al-Mutlaq
The 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohras, Mohammed Burhanuddin died in January 2014.
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Sufism
Sufism is a mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic purification, spirituality, ritualism and asceticism. Isma'ilism and Sufism are esoteric schools of thought.
Sulayhid dynasty
The Sulayhid dynasty (lit) was an Ismaili Shi'ite Arab dynasty established in 1047 by Ali ibn Muhammad al-Sulayhi that ruled most of historical Yemen at its peak.
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Sulayman bin Hassan
The 27th Da'i al-Mutlaq of Ismailism according to the Sulaymanis.
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Sulaymani
The Sulaymani branch of Tayyibi Isma'ilism is an Islamic community, of which around 70,000 members reside in Yemen, while a few thousand Sulaymani Bohras can be found in India.
Sunnah
In Islam,, also spelled (سنة), is the traditions and practices of the Islamic prophet Muhammad that constitute a model for Muslims to follow.
Sunni Bohra
Sunni Vohras or Sunni Bohras, are a community from the state of Gujarat in India.
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Sunni Islam
Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.
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Surat
Surat (Gujarati) is a city in the western Indian state of Gujarat.
Syedi Fakhruddin
Syedi Fakhruddin Shaheed is the 11th-century holy Ismaili, Fatimid, mustaali saint who was first Ismaili martyr, martyred during missionary work among Bhils local tribal in Rajasthan and buried in Galiakot, India.
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Syedi Nuruddin
Syedi Nuruddin, an 11th-century famous saint (death: Jumadi al-Ula 11) and was the Fatimid Ismaili Mustaali Missionary.
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Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.
Taher Fakhruddin
Taher Fakhruddin is the 2nd Da'i al-Mutlaq of the Qutbi Bohras, a sect within Shia Islam.
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Tajikistan
Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia.
Tajiks of Xinjiang
Chinese Tajiks are ethnic Pamiris who live in the Pamir Mountains of Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County, in Xinjiang, China.
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Tawhid
Tawhid (تَوْحِيد|translit.
Tayyibi Isma'ilism
Tayyibi Isma'ilism is the only surviving sect of the Musta'li branch of Isma'ilism, the other being the extinct Hafizi branch.
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Tenth intellect
The tenth intellect (Aashir Mudabbir or Aql al-Aashir), also known as Spiritual Adam (Adam al-Ruhani), is a primordial being present primarily in the cosmological doctrine of the Tayyibi Isma'ilism.
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Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.
The Book of the Sage and Disciple
The Book of the Sage and Disciple (Kitāb al-‘ālim wa-l-ghulām) is a religious narrative of spiritual initiation written in the form of a dramatic dialogue by Ja'far ibn Mansur al-Yaman (270 AH/883 CE – c. 347 AH/958 CE).
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Thomas Douglas Forsyth
Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth (7 October 1827 – 17 December 1886) was an Anglo-Indian administrator and diplomat.
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Tihamah
Tihamah or Tihama (تِهَامَةُ) is the Red Sea coastal plain of the Arabian Peninsula from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Bab el Mandeb.
Timurid dynasty
The Timurid dynasty, self-designated as Gurkani (گورکانیان|translit.
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Transcendence (philosophy)
In philosophy, transcendence is the basic ground concept from the word's literal meaning (from Latin), of climbing or going beyond, albeit with varying connotations in its different historical and cultural stages.
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Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean region of North America.
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Turkic peoples
The Turkic peoples are a collection of diverse ethnic groups of West, Central, East, and North Asia as well as parts of Europe, who speak Turkic languages.
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Twelve Imams
The Twelve Imams (ٱلْأَئِمَّة ٱلْٱثْنَا عَشَر,; دوازده امام) are the spiritual and political successors to the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the Twelver branch of Shia Islam, including that of the Alawite and Alevi.
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Twelver Shi'ism
Twelver Shīʿism (ٱثْنَا عَشَرِيَّة), also known as Imāmiyya (إِمَامِيَّة), is the largest branch of Shīʿa, comprising about 90% of all Shīas.
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Tyre, Lebanon
Tyre (translit; translit; Týros) or Tyr, Sur, or Sour is a city in Lebanon, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, though in medieval times for some centuries by just a small population.
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Umayyad Caliphate
The Umayyad Caliphate or Umayyad Empire (al-Khilāfa al-Umawiyya) was the second caliphate established after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and was ruled by the Umayyad dynasty.
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Umayyad dynasty
The Umayyad dynasty (Sons of Umayya) or Umayyads (al-Umawiyyūn) was an Arab clan within the Quraysh tribe who were the ruling family of the Caliphate between 661 and 750 and later of al-Andalus between 756 and 1031.
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Umm al-kitab (Shi'i book)
The is a syncretic Shi'i work originating in the milieus of 8th-century Kufa (Iraq).
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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Urdu
Urdu (اُردُو) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia.
Usulism
Usulism (translit) is the majority school of Twelver Shia Islam in opposition to the minority Akhbarism.
Uthman
Uthman ibn Affan (translit; 17 June 656) was the third caliph, ruling from 644 until his assassination in 656.
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia.
Vadodara
Vadodara, also known as Baroda, is a major city in the Indian state of Gujarat.
Veil
A veil is an article of clothing or hanging cloth that is intended to cover some part of the head or face, or an object of some significance.
Walayah
Welayah or Walaya (meaning "guardianship" or "governance") is a general concept of the Islamic faith and a key word in Shia Islam that refers, among other things, to the nature and function of the Imamate. Isma'ilism and Walayah are Ismailism.
Yaqut al-Hamawi
Yāqūt Shihāb al-Dīn ibn-ʿAbdullāh al-Rūmī al-Ḥamawī (1179–1229) (ياقوت الحموي الرومي) was a Muslim scholar of Byzantine ancestry active during the late Abbasid period (12th–13th centuries).
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Yazid I
Yazid ibn Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan (translit; 11 November 683), commonly known as Yazid I, was the second caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate, ruling from April 680 until his death in November 683.
Yemen
Yemen (al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen, is a sovereign state in West Asia.
Yusuf Najmuddin I
Syedna Yusuf Najmuddin bin Sulayman (died on 23 June 1567 CE or 16 Dhu al-Hijjah 974 AH, Taibah, Yemen) was the 24th Da'i al-Mutlaq (Absolute Missionary) of the Taiyabi Ismailis.
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Zahir (Islam)
Ẓāhir or zaher (ظاهر) is an Arabic term in some tafsir (interpretations of the Quran) for what is external and manifest.
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Zakat
Zakat (or Zakāh) is one of the five pillars of Islam.
Zayd ibn Ali
Zayd ibn ʿAlī (زيد بن علي; 695–740), also spelled Zaid, was the son of Ali ibn al-Husayn Zayn al-Abidin, and great-grandson of Ali ibn Abi Talib.
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Zaydism
Zaydism is one of the three main branches of Shia Islam that emerged in the eighth century following Zayd ibn Ali‘s unsuccessful rebellion against the Umayyad Caliphate.
Zaynab bint Ali
Zaynab bint Ali (زَيْنَب بِنْت عَلِيّ), was the eldest daughter of Fatima and Ali ibn Abi Talib.
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Zengid dynasty
The Zengid or Zangid dynasty, Atabegs of Mosul (Arabic: الدولة الزنكية romanized: al-Dawla al-Zinkia) was an Atabegate of the Seljuk Empire created in 1127.
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Zirid dynasty
The Zirid dynasty (translit), Banu Ziri (translit), was a Sanhaja Berber dynasty from what is now Algeria which ruled the central Maghreb from 972 to 1014 and Ifriqiya (eastern Maghreb) from 972 to 1148.
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Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism (Din-e Zartoshti), also known as Mazdayasna and Behdin, is an Iranian religion.
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Zurayids
The Zurayids (بنو زريع, Banū Zuraiʿ), were a Yamite Hamdani dynasty based in Yemen in the time between 1083 and 1174.
9th century
The 9th century was a period from 801 (represented by the Roman numerals DCCCI) through 900 (CM) in accordance with the Julian calendar.
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See also
Ismailism
- Bab (Shia Islam)
- Batiniyya
- Fatimid Caliphate
- Hoter ben Shlomo
- Isma'ilism
- Ismailis
- Khojki script
- List of Ismaili titles
- Musta'li Isma'ilism
- Nass (Islam)
- Nizari Ismailism
- Satr (Isma'ilism)
- Sevener
- Shia view of Ali
- Tasu'a
- The Lord of Alamut
- Vladimir Ivanow (orientalist)
- Walayah
- Wilferd Madelung
- Women in Ismailism
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isma'ilism
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