Hebtiahs Bohra

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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. [1] They were mostly concentrated in Ujjain in India with a few families who were Hebtiah Bohra.

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History of the Imāmī-Hebtiahs Bohra

The historical emergence of the Hebatiah Bohras
The historical emergence of the Shī‘ah Imāmī Tāyyībī-Mustā‘lī Hebtiahs-Ismā'īlīs
The schematic history of the development of the Imāmī-Mustā‘līan Hebtiahs Bohra from other Shī‘ah Muslim sects
Wahb Barrah Fatimah Abdul-Muttalib Natīla
Aminah bint Wahab ʿAbd Allāh Asad ibn Hashim Fatimah bint Qays 'Abbas
Khadija bint Khuwaylid Muhammad
(Family tree)
Abi Talib Fatimah bint Asad ʿAbd Allāh
Fatima Zahra Ali al Murtaza
(Family tree)
Khawlah b. Ja'far al-Hanafiyyah ʿAli bin ʿAbd Allāh b. 'Abbas
Hasan al Mujtaba Husayn ibn Ali (Family) Shahr Banu Ibn al-Hanifiyyah
Fatimah bint Hasan Zayn al-'Abidin Jayda al-Sindhi Kaysanites
(Al-Mukhtar)
Farwah bint
Al-Qasim ibn Muhammad
Muhammad al-Baqir Zayd ash-Shahīd (Zaydiyyah)First Sufi
Abu Hashim (Hashimiyya)
Ja'far al-Sadiq Yemen-Fivers Zaydi-Alavids Muhammad "al-Imām"
Isma'il ibn Jafar Al-Aftah
(Aftahiyya)
Al-Dibaj
(Sumaytiyya)
Musa al-Kadhim Ibrāhim ibn Ali ibn 'Abd Allah
Imāmī Ismā'īlīsm Muhammad al-Aftah Ibrāhim ibn Mūsā Imāmī Athnā‘ashariyyah Muslim’īyyah (Sīnbād)
Al-Maktūm
(Mubārakʾiyya)
Seveners Fātimā al-Ma‘sūmah Ali al-Rida Ishaq al-Turk
ʿAbadullāh(Wafī Aḥmad) Ḥamdān Qarmaṭ'l-ʾAšʿaṯ Al-Tustari
(Taṣawwuf)
Muhammad al-Taqī (Jawad) Muhammerah (Muqanna)
Aḥmad (Taqī Muhammad) Abū Sa'id Mūsā al-Mūbārraqā Ali al Hadi Khurrāmīyah (Pāpak, Maziar)
Ḥusayn(Raḍī ʿAbdillāh) Abū-Tāhir Muhammad ibn Ali al-Hadi Hasan al-Askari Kızılbaş
Ubayd Allāh (Fatimids) Qarmatis Nāimī-Ḥurūfīs Ibn Nusayr ('Ulyāʾiyya)
al-Qāʾim ʿAlī Al-Aʿlā (Baktāsh’īyyah) Muhammad
(Imām Zāmān)
Al-Khaṣībī (Nusairis)
al-Manṣūr Pasīkhānī (Nuktawiyya) Imamiyyah (Twelvers) Sarı Saltuk (Baktāshīs)
al-Muʿizz Nasīmī Ja'faris Alevis Otman Baba
al-ʿAzīz Akhbaris Shaykhis Usulis Balım Sultan
al-Ḥākim Safavids (Safavī Iran) Nuqta-yi Ula (Bábis) Velayat-e-faqih (Iran, Islamic Rep.) Gül Baba (Hurufi-Bektaşi)
al-Ẓāhir Durzis
(Al-Muqtana)
Mírzá Yaḥyá (Azalis) Mírzá Ḥusayn (Baháʼís) Other Alevis (Bektashism)
Al-Mustanṣir bi-Llāh Dā'ī Nasir Khusraw Badakhshan & Afgan Pamiris Yarsanis
(Sultan Sahak)
Al-Musta'li (Musta'lis)Muḥammad ibn Abū Tamīm Al-Nizār
(Nizārīs)
Ostad Elahi
('Ali-Ilahis)
Al-Āmir Hashshashins (Ḥ. bin Sabbah) Işık Alevis
At-Tayyib (Tayyibis) Al-Ḥāfīz (Hafizis) Ḥasan ʿAlā (Alamūt Nizārīs) Alians
(Demir Baba)
Harabatis
(Baba Rexheb)
Arwa
al-Sulayhi
Zoeb Musa (Dawoodis) Agha Khans (Nizārī Ismā'īlīs) Pamir Ismāʿīlīsm Chepnis
Sulayman (Sulaymanis)Ali bin Ibrāhim
(Alavi Bohra)
Hebtiahs Bohra A . Hussain Jivaji
(Atba-i-Malak)
Jafari Bohras (Syed Jafar Ahmad Shirazi) Progressive Dawoodis (Asghar Ali) Atba-i-Malak Vakil (A. Qadir Ebrahimji) Atba-i-Malak Badar (Ghulam Hussain Miya Khan)

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