Sulaymani

Sulaymani Bohras (Sulaymanis) are a Musta‘lī Ismaili community that predominantly reside in Saudi Arabia (Najran), Yemen, Pakistan and India. They are also called Makrami.^[1] They number between several hundred thousand and one million in Saudi Arabia alone.^[2] They belong to Tayyibi Ismailis, which bifurcated into various Bohras including major group Dawoodi Bohra.

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Early Imāms Ali Hasan Husayn as-Sajjad al-Baqir Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq Ismāʿīl ibn Jaʿfar al-Mubārak Muhammad ibn Ismāʿīl ash-Shākir ʿAbadu l-Lāh (al-Wāfī Ahmad) Ahmad (al-Taqī Muhammad) Ḥusayn (ar-Raḍī ʿAbdillāh) ʿAbdu l-Lāh al-Mahdī bi l-Lāh al-Qāʾim al-Manṣūr al-Muʿizz al-ʿAzīz al-Ḥākim al-Ẓāhir al-Mustanṣir bi l-Lāh Nizār al-Muṣṭafā li-Dīn’il-Lāh / Aḥmadu l-Mustāʿlī bi l-Lāh Manṣūr al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām’il-Lāh Abu l-Qāsim al-Tayyib
Nizari Ismaili and Taiyabi Da'is  Nizārī Ismā'īlī Aga Khan IV Taiyabi-Musta’li Ismailis Dawoodi Bohra Disputed between Mufaddal Saifuddin and Taher Fakhruddin Sulaymani Al-Fakhri Abdullah Alavi Bohra Haatim Zakiyuddin
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See also

• Alavi Bohra
• Atba-i-Malak
  • Atba-e-Malak Badar
  • Atba-i-Malak Vakil
• Progressive Dawoodi Bohra
• Hebtiahs Bohra
• Patani Bohras
• Sunni Bohra

Notes

Further reading

• Farhad Daftary The Ismailis Their History & Doctrines1990
• Hollister. John N. The Shi'a of India London 1953
• Lokhandwalla. The Bohras. a Muslim community of Gujarat 1955
• Hazrat Mohammed Shakir Zia "Urdu translation from Arabic: Biography of Dai- Mutlaq Sayedna Sulayman B. Hasan 1357H".
• Mulla Saadullah bin Sayyadi Almansub Nasrullah Saheb,- References from scores of History books of Da'wa, including letters from Duat and Manaaseeb by and between them.
• Mulla Masood M. Ali "Sulaymani Census and Survey in India & Pakistan"
• Mulla Masood m. Ali "Extracted and translation in English of "Seerat-ul-Manaseeb" 1346H.
• Asif A. Fyzee "Three Sulaymani Dai's"
• Hussain B. Tyabji " History of Badarbagh Trust" 1947
• Syed Amin Jafri "Sulaimani Bohras" an article in Newtimes Hyderabad 1984
• Zia-ul-Eimaan No.40 A in house sulaymani Journal
• Mulla Ameeruddin "Urdu translation of Nuzhat-ul-Azhaan", the AutoBiography of Dai-mutlaq Sayedna Jafar b. Sayedna Sulayman B. Hasan