Bohras - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Bohras - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Qutbuddin, Tahera

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061112
Doc. NO	:	ALei1509
Main Entry	:	Qutbuddin, Tahera
Title & Author	:	Bohras - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Qutbuddin, Tahera
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(4,467 words)
Abstract	:	The Bohras are a Shīʿī Muslim community of the Ṭayyibī Mustaʿlī branch of the Ismāʿīlīs, who trace their religious and literary heritage to the Fāṭimid caliph- imām s of North Africa and Egypt. Mostly indigenous Indians, their ancestors converted to Islam at the hands of Fāṭimid missionaries in the latter half of the fifth/eleventh century. For the purposes of this article, “Bohras” refers to the majority Dāʾūdī branch of the Ṭayyibī Bohras, which has its headquarters in India and numbers approximately a million members worldwide. The ʿAlawī and Sulaymānī
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1509.pdf