List of Ismaili titles

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List of titles used by the followers of Ismailism , a branch of Shia Islam.

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The titles are of Persian and Arabic origin.

Nizari Ismaili titles

Alamut period

The hierarchy (hudūd) of the organization of the Nizari Ismailis of the Alamut period was as follows:

Imam and da'is were the elites, while the majority of the sect consisted of the last three grades who were peasants and artisans. [1]

Other titles include:

The titles Bābā (بابا; Persian equivalent of the Arabic Shaykh, "Old Man") and Sayyidinā (Sayyidnā) (سیدنا; literally "Our Lord" or "Our Master") was used by the Nizaris to refer to Hassan-i Sabbah. [2]

Other periods

Other titles

References

  1. ↑ Petrushevsky, I. P. (January 1985). Islam in Iran. SUNY Press. p. 253. ISBN   9781438416045.
  2. ↑ Farhad Daftary, “ḤASAN ṢABBĀḤ,” Encyclopaedia Iranica, XII/1, pp. 34-37, available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/hasan-sabbah (accessed on 30 December 2012).
  3. ↑ Joveynī, ʻAlā al-Dīn ʻAṭā Malek (1958). The history of the World-Conqueror. Harvard University Press. p. 640.
  4. ↑ Also mistakenly transliterated as muhtashim.
  5. ↑ Landolt, Herman; Kassam, Kutub; Sheikh, S. (2008). An Anthology of Ismaili Literature: A Shi'i Vision of Islam. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 17. ISBN   978-1-84511-794-8.
  6. ↑ Daftary, Farhad (2007). The Ismāʻı̄lı̄s: their history and doctrines (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-511-35561-5.
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