Ismaili Dawa and Fatimid reign in India

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Abbas Hamdani: The Beginnings of Ismaili Dawa in Northern India

This is an attempt by the author in 1954 to explain how Ismaili Dawa started in India. Very early during the Fatimids, Ismaili Dawa had reached all parts of India. Balouchistan was Ismaili. In Hind and Sind, there was also strong Ismaili Influence as well as in Multan. The Sumra Dynasty reign lasted 350 years. Sumras were practising Fatimid Ismailism. They helped later in the Dawa carried by Pir Satgur Nur and Pir Sadardin. Overall, an extremely important work, though only few pages, a must read.

16 pages of reading divided in 2 files. It will take less than 10 minutes per file to become familiar with such an important subject

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http://ismaili.net/heritage/node/28700

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Ismailism in Multan and Sind

This is an article about the expansion of Ismailism in Multan and Sind since Dai Hatim was sent to these areas in 883AD (Fatimid took power in Maghreb in 909 AD). The expansion continued later under Dai Jalam b. Shayban( http://ismaili.net/heritage/node/2187) who seize Multan for the Fatimid Imams in 985 AD.

How the Mustalian Dawa died down and Nizari Dawa expanded under Pir Satgur Nur and was given a boost from the Declaration of the Qiyamah by Alamut period Imam Hassan Alazikrihis Salam and the negative impact on the Dawa of the fall of Alamut in 1254. The authors says that Pir Sadardin reorganised the Dawa, the author talks of the Ismaili Sumrah Dynasty and the Imam Shahi split.

A study that will bring a lot to the much needed and neglected research on Ismailism in the subcontinent considering that there are many blanks in the general history of Hind, Sind and Multan.

Its a 20 pages study easily readable in 20 minutes with some interesting info in footnotes. The link for the PDF is below.

http://ismaili.net/heritage/node/28980