• Iraqi branch of the Isma'ili missionary network (da'wa). Abu Abdallah and Abu'l-Abbas became members of the Isma'ili missionary network (da'wa) themselves...
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    by Abu Hatim al-Razi, called Aʿlām al-nubuwwa (Signs of Prophecy), which documents a debate between Abu Hatim and al-Razi. Abu Hatim was an Isma'ili missionary...
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  • was a senior missionary (dāʿī) in the Iranian lands of the eastern Islamic world. Nizam al-Mulk reports that a certain Ishaq succeeded Abu Hatim al-Razi...
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    (سعيد بن الحسين) in Askar Mukram to a family that led the secret Isma'ili missionary network (da'wa), propagating on behalf of the hidden imam, Muhammad...
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    foundation of the Fatimid state was realized under the leadership of da'i (missionary) Abu Abdallah, whose conquest of Aghlabid Ifriqiya with the help of Kutama...
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  • founder of the Qarmatian sect of Isma'ilism. Originally the chief Isma'ili missionary (dā'ī) in lower Iraq, in 899 he quarreled with the movement's leadership...
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  • Fatimids. It mentions the initial stages of the Isma'ili dawah in Yemen under Ibn Hawshab. It also discusses Abu Abdallah al-Shi'i's correspondence with the...
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  • Abu'l-Fawaris Ahmad ibn Ya'qub was an early 11th-century Isma'ili scholar and missionary (da'i) active in Syria, which at the time was largely under the...
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    Al-Mu'ayyad fi'l-Din al-Shirazi (category Chief missionaries of the Fatimid Caliphate)
    Al-Mu'ayyad fid-din Abu Nasr Hibat Allah b. Abi 'Imran Musa b. Da'ud ash-Shirazi (c. 1000 CE/390 AH – 1078 CE/470 AH) was an 11th-century Isma'ili scholar, philosopher-poet...
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    Press, 1963), 131. An Ismaili Heresiography: The "Bab Al-Shaytan" from Abu Tammam's Kitab Al ... By Wilferd Madelung, Paul Ernest Walker, pg. 5 Michael Dillon...
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  • Proofs of Prophecy), a refutation of Abū Bakr al-Rāzī. Kitāb al-Iṣlāḥ (Book of the Correction), “the oldest extant Ismāʾilī work presenting a Neoplatonic world-view...
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  • centre of Isma'ili missionary activity (daʿwa) in Khurasan. Some of the chief Isma'ili theologians of the period, men like Muhammad al-Nasafi and Abu Yaqub...
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  • Abdallah al-Kirmani (Arabic: حميد الدين الكرماني; fl. 996–1021 CE) was an Isma'ili scholar. He was of Persian origin and was probably born in the province...
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  • and concubine of Mu Zong Abdallah ibn Tahir, Muslim governor (or 844) Abu Tammam, Muslim poet (b. 788) Bridei VII, king of the Picts Dionysius I, Syrian...
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