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Who are the Dawoodi Bohras?

** The Dawoodi Bohras are a (mainly) Gujarati speaking Shiite  Muslim sect, following the Fatimid school of jurisprudence. The  Daudi (used interchangeably with Dawoodi) Bohras trace their  ancestry to early conversions to Ismaili Shiism during the reign of  the  Fatimid caliph-Imam, al-Mustansir (AS) (AH  427-487/1036-1094  AD). When schisms occurred in the  Ismaili dawah (mission) in the  eleventh and twelfth centuries in  Egypt, the Ismailis in India followed the Fatimid Tayyibi dawah  of Yemen. Subsequently, this community split a number of times, due to differences in followers over the successions to the post of dai-al-mutlaq (absolute summoner). The Daudi Bohras,   named after their 27th Dai, Syedna Daud ibn Qutubshah (AD.1612), now pay allegiance to the leadership of His  Holiness, Dr. Syedna Muhammad Burhanuddin (TUS), the 52nd Dai. The dai-al-mutlaq operates as the sole representative of the secluded Ismaili Imam

** This abstract is an excerpt from an article for the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic world, written by
Sheikh Mustafa Abdulhussein

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