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ABU TALIB
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ALI
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HUSEIN
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Zainul Abidin
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Mohamadin Baqir
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Jafar Sadiq
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               ISMAELIENS______________________________________________ITHNASHRIS (DUODECIMAINS)
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                Ismail                                                     Musa Kasim
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        Mohamad Bin Ismail                                                  Ali Reza

  

Mowla Ali                               1.      Nabi Mohamad Mustafa
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Imam Hussein                            2.      Pir Hazrat Hassan
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5.      Pir Imam Zeinul-Abdeen          4.      Pir Jafar bin Hussein
Imam Mohamad Baqir
6.      Pir Amir Ahmad (Imam Jafar as-Sadiq)
Imam Ismail
7.      Pir Nooruddin(Imam Mohamd bin Ismail)

  

Click on the attached link to see the full Synoptic chart of The Ismaili imams, their Imamat dates and Places, And their Contemporary Heroes and Pirs.

(From Nargis Mawjee's Histoire des Ismaeliens)

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ABDALLAH            ABU TALIB                                                                       ABBAS
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Pr.Mohamed             ALI                                                                     ABD ALLAH

  

 

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           Imam NIZAR                                           MUSTEALLI
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           Imam HADI                                              AL-TAYYIB

  

Charts taken from various sources

Contents

Introduction

Part I – A Comprehensive Grand History of The “Noor-En-Allah-Noor”

The Creation (Pre-Yuga)

Das Avtar (Ten Incarnations of Shri Vishnu, The Ali)
First Machha Avtar

Second Korabha Avtar

Third Varah Avtar

Fourth Narsinh Avtar

Fifth Vaman Avtar

Sixth Farsiram Avtar

Seventh Shri Ram Avtar
Raja Harishchandra

Eighth Shri Krishna Avtar
Sati Drupati

Ninth Shri Budha Avtar

Tenth Shri Naklanki Avtar
Hazarat Mowla Murtaza Ali (A.S.)
Hazarat Muhammad Mustafa Rasul (S.A.S)

Historical Overview

When the Abbasids intensified their search for the Ismaili Imam to its extreme, Muhammad had to travel out of Iran and reached as far as the valley of Farghana, which was a large, prosperous and pleasant region. Farghana was known as the "Gate of Turkistan" and now it is in Uzbekistan and partly in Tajikistan. It must be however noted that the history of Tajikistan is bound up with that of Uzbekistan in Central Asia, for the two countries are not only contiguous, but have often been governed by the same rulers and subject to the same invasions.

It deserves notice, however, that the Nimatullahi order of Sufism also surfaced out in Iran. It was founded by Amir Nuruddin Nimatullah Kirmani, who traced his descent from Ismail bin Jafar Sadik. He was born in 730/1328 in Aleppo, and died in 834/1431 at Mahan in Kirman. Shah Nimatullah designated his son Burhanuddin Khalilullah (d. 860/1456), who migrated to Deccan for ever, but left his son Shamsuddin at Mahan to supervise the affairs of the Iranian followers. Nimatullahi order thus, existed both in Iran and India under two leaderships.

When Shah Abbas I tolerated Sufism in Iran, the tide also turned in favour of the Ismaili mission, providing benigh climate to the dais to propagate Ismailism. Imam Nizar is thus reported to have gone to Khorasan in 1014/1606 with few dais, where he concealed his identity, and assumed a Sufi sounding name, Shah Ataullah among the Nimatullahis. He became the qutb (pole) of the Nimatullahis most probably in Nishapur, Marw, Herat, Balkh and Sebzewar in Khorasan province. Nizar was probably the first Ismaili Imam to become the spiritual master of the Nimatullahis.

Kahek had been made the new headquarters in Kirman after Anjudan. Sayed Abdul Nabi was an Indian vakil, who visited Kahek. He was rejoiced to behold Nizar in the garden, facing the palace, which he relates in his ginan that:-
'I enjoyed a trip with the Imam, when my Lord was in the garden.'

Sayed Abdul Nabi's another ginan also gives condensed account that:-

'The everlasting Lord resides in Kahek in the very form of Ali. The apparent Imam Nizar is the 77th epiphany of God, and the 40th Imam.'

In India, the Kadiwal Sayeds continued the tradition of Ismaili mission despite several impediments. Fourth in the line of Sayed Mashaikh bin Sayed Rehmatullah Shah bin Pir Hasan Kabir, was Sayed Fazal Shah; who operated proselytizing mission in north Gujrat with a tremendous effect upon the local peasants. His disciples islamized their names and forsook irrelevant customs. He is said to have visited Iran in 1035/1625 during the period of Imam Nizar and was appointed as a vakil. The tradition relates that Nizar also sent with him his one relative, called Pir Kassim Shah.

Sayed Ali was born most probably in Shahr-i Babak, where he passed his early life with his mother. He also came in Kahek after his father's arrival from Khorasan. He was also known as Shah Ataullah II among the Nimatullahi Sufi order. He was a popular figure as an amir in Shahr-i Babak and Kirman among the elites. He is also known as Rais al-Kirman (Lord of Kirman), an honour which ultimately promoted him to the governorship of Kirman. He was also a leading landlord, and had acquired many lands in Shahr-i Babak and Sirjan.

He was a famous Ismaili poet, and his name was Imam Quli (slave of Imam), with a pen-name Khaki. Being a native of Khorasan, he became known as Khaki Khorasani. He was born in Dizbad in Khorasan. His parents were small land-owners in Dizbad, and most probably possessed some flock of goats and cows. He received his religious education at home. His biography is also shrouded in mist like others. It is however probable that he had composed his poems between 1037/1627 and 1056/1645, making description of Imam Zulfikar Ali (d. 922/1516) and Imam Nuruddin Ali (d. 975/1550).

Hasan Ali I, also known in Iranian orbits as Bakir Shah, was born in Kahek. He had also gone to the city of Kirman with his father, but returned to Kahek after assuming the Imamate. In 1085/1674, he betrothed to a Safavid lady, and soon afterwards, there is a likelihood that the Imam had taken certain interest in the political arena. In 1105/1693, he was made the governor of Kirman. The cursory glance of the Iranian empire reveals that Shah Abbas II had died in 1077/1666. John Malcolm writes in 'History of Persia' (London, 1815, 1st vol., p.

Kassim Ali was born most probably in 1086/1675. He was also known as Sayed Aga Jafar, or Sayed Jafar. His mother related to a Safavid amir of Kirman. According to the later sources, Imam had married to one of the daughters of Shah Tahmasp II (d. 1145/1732).
His period of Imamate witnessed several vital cataclysm in Iranian kingdom, therefore, the Ismaili mission exercised great care. It seems that Kassim Ali also took part in the politics like his father, and was also the governor of Kirman. He had however come to reside in Mahallat during the ending period of his Imamate.

Abul Hasan Ali was also known as Sayed Shah Muhammad Hasan Shah, Hasan Beg and Abul Hasan Ali Shah. He was born in Shahr-i Babak in Kirman. The Iranian sources named him, Abul Hasan Kaheki, a name mostly was popular among the inhabitants of Kahek, whom he generously helped for about two times. One of the ways he utalised his wealth was to serve delicious dishes strewn with ample varities of food to the hungry and needy while he himself would seldom taste it.