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Sayyid Ali (Nizari imam)

Sayyid Ali (Nizari imam)

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Sayyid ʿAlī (Arabic: سيد علي) was the 41st imam of the Qasim-Shahi branch of the Nizari Isma'ili community.[1]

Sayyid Ali succeeded his father Shah Nizar II when the latter died in September 1722.[2] Like his father, he resided at Kahak in central Persia, where he died in 1754.[3]

He was buried in his father's mausoleum in Kahak; his tomb is located in the largest of the mausoleum's chambers.[4] His son Sayyid Hasan Ali succeeded him.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    Daftary 2007, p. 509.
  2. [2]
    Daftary 2007, pp. 457–458, 509.
  3. [3]
    Daftary 2007, pp. 457–459.
  4. [4]
    Daftary 2007, p. 458.
  5. [5]
    Daftary 2007, p. 459.

Sources

  • Daftary, Farhad (2007). The Ismāʿı̄lı̄s: Their History and Doctrines (Second ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-61636-2.
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