Shii News – Ismaili of Central Asia
Posted in: Field-specific (academic), IranIsmaili of Central Asia – Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History
The Ismailis are one of the largest Muslim minority populations of Central Asia, and they make up the second largest Shiʿi Muslim community globally. First emerging in the second half of the 8th century, the Ismaili missionary movement spread into many areas of the Islamic world in the 10th century, under the leadership of the Ismaili Fatimids caliphs in Egypt.
- May 05, 2018
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