Tayyibi Isma'ilism
A living tradition within Musta'li Isma'ilism.
Tayyibi Isma'ilism is a living tradition within Musta'li Isma'ilism. Also written Tayyibis.
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 Hafizi-Tayyibi schism followed the death of the Fatimid caliph al-Amir; Tayyibis recognised Abu'l-Qasim al-Tayyib as the legitimate heir to the imamate, and leadership passed to a line of Da'i al-Mutlaq. The date 1132 is commonly given in reference works but was reachable in this pass only via Wikipedia, which is not a citation of record; it is therefore not asserted.
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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. “Tayyibi Isma'ilism.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-tayyibi-ismailism.
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title = {Tayyibi Isma'ilism},
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howpublished = {English version},
url = {https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-tayyibi-ismailism},
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.