Because of this, Hasan Ali Shah decided to secure a pledge of loyalty from the members of the community to himself and to the Ismaili form of Islam.

In 1305, after the issuing of a fatwa by the scholar Ibn Taymiyyah calling for jihad against all non-Sunni Muslims like the Druze, Alawites, Ismaili, and twelver Shiites, al-Malik al-Nasir inflicted a disastrous defeat on the Druze at Keserwan and forced outward compliance on their part to orthodox Sunni Islam.

Daim al-Islam is a book on the rulings of Islam followed by Ismaili Muslims who adhere to the Shi ' a Ismaili Fatimid fiqh.

The book emphasizes what importance Islam has given to manners and etiquette along with the worship of God, citing the traditions of the first four Imams of the Shi ' a Ismaili Fatimid school of thought.

** Prince Aly Khan, Imam of Ismaili Shi ' a Islam ( d. 1960 )

Neo-Platonism and the ideas of Plotinus influenced medieval Islam as well, since the Sunni Abbasids fused Greek concepts into sponsored state texts, and found great influence amongst the Ismaili Shia.

The 4th century AH / 10th century CE has been called by Louis Massignon ‘ the Ismaili century in the history of Islam ’.

The main religions of Badakhshan are Ismaili Islam and Sunni Islam.

Historical groups viewed as highly heterodox by most Muslims include the Kharijites, who took a third view on Ali's succession ( and are today succeeded by the Ibadi ), the Mu ' tazilites, who most famously asserted that the Qur ' an was created, a view which enjoyed Caliphal approval before the time of Mutawakkil, the Qarmatians, a branch of the Seveners within Ismaili Islam who took control of much of the Arabian peninsula in the 9th and 10th century, practiced vegetarianism, took control of the Well of Zamzam and the Ka ' bah, and the Hashashin or Assassins, another Ismaili group, famous for their reclusive lifestyle, manners of indoctrination and assassinations in the years after the First Crusade.

In 1948 she left her film career to marry Prince Aly Khan, a son of Sultan Mahommed Shah, Aga Khan III, the leader of the Ismaili sect of Shia Islam.

They hold the latter to be superior and eternal and this is reflected in their understanding of both the universe and humanity ( This view can also be found in Ismaili Islam — see Batiniyya ).

The Nizari Ismaili community is a denomination of Ismailism within Shia Islam and consists of approximately 5-15 million adherents ( under 10 % of the world's Shia Muslim population ).

It is believed in Twelver and Ismaili Shī ‘ ah Islam that ‘ aql, divine wisdom, was the source of the souls of the Prophets and Imams and gave them esoteric knowledge called ḥikmah and that their sufferings were a means of divine grace to their devotees.

Following Ja ' far's death, the Shia community split between the element that would become the Twelver Shia, and those who believed the Imamate passed through to Ismail's son ; the Ismaili branch of Shia Islam is accordingly named for Ismail.

" Multiple prominent Nizari Ismaili websites have publicly indicated that the position of Imam is that of the bearer of a unique concept, common to certain denominations of Shia Islam, referred to as ( the eternal ) Noor of Allah (" Light of God ").

According to several books, he was assassinated by a member of Hashshashin, a group of the Ismaili sect of Shi ' a Islam.

Ismail played a key role in the rise of Twelver Islam ; he converted Iran from Sunni and Ismaili Shi ' i Islam, importing religious authorities from the Levant.

The people speak Wakhi language and belong to the Shia Imami Ismaili sect of Islam.

* Aga Khan, hereditary title of the Imam of the Nizari Muslims of the Ismaili followers of the Shī ‘ a sect of Islam, the great imam of Shi ` a Islam.

The Ismaili Muslims also stress a distinction between the inner and the outer.

The leaders of the dynasty were also Shia Ismaili Imams, hence, they had a religious significance to Ismaili Muslims.

Their ancestry from the seven Ismaili imams ( in grey ) and Muhammad is also shown.

Fortunately, descriptions of this event are also preserved in Rashid al-Din ’ s narrative and recounted in the Haft Bab-i Abi Ishaq, an Ismaili book of the 15th century AD.

Following him were Imam Muhtadi and Imam Qahir, also living in concealment from the general population, but in touch with the highest-ranking members of the Ismaili hierarchy ( hudūd ).

An alliance with the caliph of Baghdad meant greater resources for the self-defence of not only the Nizari Ismaili state, but also the broader Muslim world.

Aga Khan (; also transliterated as Aqa Khan and Agha Khan ) is said by author Farhad Daftary to be the hereditary title of the Imam of the Nizari Ismaili community ( although in a legal proceeding, the Aga Khan III noted that Aga Khan is not a title, but instead a sort of alias or " pet name " that was given to the Aga Khan I when he was a young man ).

For the Ismailis in the aftermath of the Mongol onslaught of the Alamut state in 1256 CE, the need to practice taqiyya became necessary, not only for the protection of the community itself, which was now stateless, but also for safeguarding the line of the Nizari Ismaili Imamate during this period of unrest.

Because of the Druze's Ismaili Shi ' ite origin, they have also been associated with taqiyya.

Some also believe that Imam Ismaili is buried here.

Baghlan is also home to a small community of Ismaili Muslims of Tajik stock, led by the Sayeds of Kayan.

Qadir also commissioned several refutations of Ismaili doctrines, including that written by the Mu ‘ tazili ‘ Ali b. Sa ‘ id al-Istakri ( 1013 ).

It is also said by later sources that the Ismaili Imam-Caliph al-Mustanṣir informed Hassan that his elder son Nizar would be the next Imam.

When his grandfather passed away, the young Prince was thrust into the position of the Aga Khan ( IV ), and he went from being not only a university student but also to replacing his grandfather as the new Nizari Ismaili Imam.

In 1574, Tahmasp also had the 36th Nizari Ismaili Shia Imam Murād Mīrzā executed, due to the perceived political threat he posed.

Mahmud's first campaign to the south was against the Ismaili Fatimid Kingdom at Multan in a bid to curry political favor and recognition with the Abbassid Caliphate ; he also engaged with the Fatimids elsewhere.

The term jamatkhana is also used to refer to spaces used by a number of other Muslim communities with bases in South Asia, such as the Chisti Sufi tariqa, and various branches of the Musta ’ li Ismaili community including the Dawoodi Bohras and Alevi Bohras.

A significantly edited version of the text was also published serially in the Ismaili Crescent ( Dar es Salaam ) between January 8, 1967 and April 2, 1968.

The buildings were not only meant to act as symbolic markers of the Ismaili community ’ s presence in England and Canada, but also as an ambassadorial bridge which would continue to help them develop and maintain relationships with other faith groups and civil society organizations.

The Ismaili Centre in Toronto will be the largest such centre in the English-speaking world .< ref > See “ Aga Khan to Establish Major Academic and Cultural Center and Museum in Canada ” Press Release on October 8, 2002 at < http :// www. akdn. org / Content / 551 .> The Ismaili Centre in Toronto will share a 17. 3 acre plot with a major museum “ dedicated to the acquisition, preservation, display and interpretation of artifacts relating to the intellectual, cultural, artistic, and religious traditions of Muslim communities, past and present .”</ ref > Centres in Houston, Texas and Los Angeles, California are also being planned < http :// www. theismaili. org / cms / 802 / About-the-Ismaili-Centres >.

It also functions as a gathering point for the Ismaili community as it endeavors to understand its own history and thought, including the often neglected fields of esoteric Islam and Shi ‘ ism.

Even the Aga Khan ( the Spiritual Head of the Islamic sect of Ismaili Khojas & grandfather of the present Aga Khan ) has stated in his autobiography that Gokhale's influence on his thinking was probably considerable.

No contemporary Ismaili account of the events has survived, and it is likely that scholars will never know the exact details of this time.

Since his ascension to the Imamate of Nizari Ismailis in 1957, the Aga Khan has been involved in complex political and economic changes which have affected his Nizari Ismaili followers, including the independence of African countries from colonial rule, expulsion of Asians from Uganda, the independence of Central Asian countries such as Tajikistan from the former Soviet Union and the continuous turmoil in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

In view of the fundamentally altered conditions in the world has provoked many changes, including the discoveries of atomic science, I am convinced that it is in the best interests of the Nizari Ismaili community that I should be succeeded by a young man who has been brought up and developed during recent years and in the midst of the new age, and who brings a new outlook on life to his office.

The Aga Khan has decided to establish an Ismaili Centre and regional representative office of the Aga Khan Development Network in Singapore.