Hafizi Isma'ilism
A tradition no longer extant within Musta'li Isma'ilism.
Hafizi Isma'ilism is recorded within Musta'li Isma'ilism and is no longer extant. Also written Hafizis, Majidis.
Origin
No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. The Musta'li line that recognised al-Hafiz rather than al-Tayyib after the death of al-Amir. The sources describe it as the extinct branch of Musta'li Ismailism, Tayyibism being the surviving one. No founding or extinction date was verified in this pass.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Hafizi Isma'ilism.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-hafizi-ismailism.
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title = {Hafizi Isma'ilism},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {English version},
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note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.