This is a list of Dai of the Dawoodi Bohra. The Dawoodi Bohra are a sect of Shia Islam, whose leader is the Dai.
According to Fatimid (Taiyabi, Mustali, Ismaili) tradition, after the death of Imām Al-Amir, al-Malika al-Sayyida (Hurratul-Malika) instituted the Dā'ī al-Mutlaq to run the da'wah from Yemen in the name of Imām Taiyab abi al-Qasim. This article gives short history and the list of the Dawoodi Bohra Dā'īs, their Mawazeen/Mukasir (associates) and The Walī-ul-Hind (Indian Walīs) ("representatives" or "caretakers" when the Dais were seated at Yemen).[1]
Al-Malika al-Sayyida (Hurratul-Malika) was instructed and prepared by Imām Mustansir and following Imāms for the second period of satr. It was going to be on her hands that Imām Taiyab abi al-Qasim would go into seclusion, and she would institute the office of Dā'ĩ al-Mutlaq.
Syedna Zoeb bin Moosa was first to be instituted to this office, and the line of Taiyabi Dā'ĩs that began in 1132.The second da'i mutlaq, Ibrahim Al-Hamidi (1151–1162), became the real founder of the tayyibi esoteric doctrine, which he elaborated especially in his Kitab kanz Al-walad (Book of the child's treasure). The position remained in his family until 1209, when it passed to Ali ibn Muhammad of the Banu Al-Walid Al-Anf family, which held it for more than three centuries with only two interruptions. The political power of the Yemenite da'is reached a peak during the long incumbency of Idris Imad Al-Din ibn Al-Hasan, the nineteenth da'i mutlaq (1428–1468). He is also the author of a seven-volume history of the Ismaili imams, Kitab uyun Al-akhbar (Book of choice stories) and of a two-volume history of the Yemenite da'is, Kitab nuzhat Al-akhbar (Book of story and entertainment), as well as works of esoteric doctrine and religious controversy.
While the Yemenite da'is had been able to act relatively freely with the backing or protection of various rulers during the early centuries, they usually faced hostility from the Zaydi imams and in the sixteenth century suffered relentless persecution. Until the 23rd Dā'ī, the center of the dawat was in Yemen. In 1539 the twenty-third da'i mutlaq appointed an Indian, Yusuf ibn Sulayman, as his successor, evidently in recognition of the growing importance of the Indian tayyibi community. Yusuf came to reside in the Yemen, he died and was buried there.
Because of the intense persecutions against the dawat by the Zaydi rulers of Yemen, the 24th Dā'ī Yusuf designated Jalal Shamshuddin in India as his successor, and the center of the dawat then moved permanently to India. The 25th Dā'ī also died in 1567 CE, and is buried in Ahmedabad, India, the first Dā'ī to have his mausoleum in India.
After the death of Da'ud b. 'Adjabshah, the 26th da'imutlaq, in 999/1591, the succession was disputed. While in India Da'ud Burhan al-Din was established, his followers were called Dawoodi Bohra there after. The Dawoodi da'is continued to reside in India, where the great majority of their followers live. The da'wa generally was able to develop freely. Their present Dai is 53rd and his residence is now in Bombay. The largest concentration of Bohras is found in Gujarat. Outside Gujarat, Daudi Bohoras live in Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Madhya pradesh state and, in many of the big cities of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Burma, and the East Africa. In the Yemen the Daudi community is concentrated in the Haraz mountains
Up to the 23rd Dā'ī, the da'wah center was at Yemen; for India, a "Walī al-Hind" (representative/caretaker for India) was designated by the Dā'ī to run the dawat in India.
The Wali- ul -Hind were champions of the Fatimid dawat in India, who were instrumental in maintaining & propagating it on instructions of the Dā'ī at Yemen, and it is because of them that the Fatimid dawat was able to survive the persecutions in Cairo and Yemen.
Moulai Abadullah[3] [4] [5] was the first Walī al-Hind in the era of Imam Mustansir (427–487 AH). Abadullah (originally named Baalam Nath) and Syedi Nuruddin (originally named Roop Nath) went to Cairo, Egypt, to learn, and went to India in 467 AH. Moulai Ahmed was also their companion.
First Dā'ī Zoeb appointed Maulai Yaqoob (after the death of Abadullah), who was the second Walī al-Hind of the Fatimid dawat. Moulai Yaqoob was the first person of Indian origin to receive this honour under the Dā'ī. He was son of Moulai Bharmal, minister of Hindu Solanki King Siddhraja Jaya Singha (Anhalwara,Patan) (487–527 AH/1094–1133 CE). With Minister Moulai Tarmal, they had honoured the Fatimid dawat along with their fellow citizens on the call of Moulai Abdullah. Moulai Fakhruddin, son of Moulai Tarmal, was sent to western Rajasthan, India, and Syedi Nuruddin went to the Deccan (death: Jumadi al-Ula 11 at Don Gaum, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India).
One Dā'ī after another continued until the 23rd Dā'ī in Yemen. Persons were appointed to the position of Walī al-Hind one after another in India. A list of them is also given below along with the relevant Dā'īs.
In the generation of Moulai Yaqoob, Moulai Ishaq, Moulai Ali, Moulai Hasan fir continued one after another as Wali-ul-Hind. Moulai Hasan Fir was fifth Wali in the era of 16th Dai Abadullah (d.809 AH/1406 AD) of Yemen.
Walī -ul-Hind Moulai Jafer, Moulai Abdul Wahab, and Moulai Qasim Khan bin Hasan (11th Walī al-Hind, and who died in 950 AH/1543 CE in Ahmedabad) were last three upto 23 rd Dai. Because of the intense persecutions against the dawat by the Zaydi rulers of Yemen, it was transferred to India from Yemen when the 23rd Dā'ī Syedna Mohammed Ezzuddin designated Syedna Yusuf Najmuddin ibn Sulaiman as his successor (and, thus the 24th Dā'ī) in Sidhpur, Gujarat, India. Yusuf went to reside in the Yemen, he died and was buried there. Before his death 24th Dā'ī Yusuf designated Jalal Shamshuddin as 25th Dai in India as his successor, who was also last Walī -ul-Hind under the 24th Dā'ī Yusuf for 20 years. The center of the dawat then moved permanently to India.
| 1 | Zoeb bin Moosa al-Waade'eeذويب بن موسى الوادي | 1138 –1151(530 – 546) | 13 years, 4 months, 17 days | Huth(exact site unknown) | Huth | Syedna Khattaab bin Hasan(d. 1138)----Syedna Ibrahim bin Husain al-Haamedi | 1. Moulai Abdullah (d. 1141) | ||
| 2. Moulai Yaqub bin Moulai Bharmal (Patan, Gujarat.) | |||||||||
| 2 | Ibrahim bin Husain al-Haamediابراهيم بن حسين الحميدي | 1151 –1162(546 – 557) | 11 years, 7 months, 6 days | Ghayl bani-Haamid | Ghayl bani-Haamid(Outskirts of Sana'a) | Syedna Husain bin Ali al-Waleed(d.1159)----Syedna Hatim bin Ibrahim al-Haamedi | Syedna Mohammad bin Taher Al Haresi | ||
| 3 | Hatim Mohyi'uddin bin Ibrahim al-Haamediحاتم بن ابراهيم الحميدي | 1162 –1199(557 – 596) | 38 years, 5 months | Al-Hutaib ul-Mubarak | Al-Hutaib ul-Mubarak | Syedna Mohammad bin Taher Al Haresi(d.1188)----Syedna Ali bin Maula Mohammad bin il-Waleed | |||
| 4 | Ali Shamsuddin bin Hatim al-Haamediعلي بن حاتم الحميدي | 1199 –1209(596 – 605) | 9 years, 10 months, 9 days | Sana'a(exact site unknown) | Sana'a | Syedna Ali bin Maula Mohammad bin il-Waleed | |||
| 5 | Ali bin Maula Muhammad bin il-Waleedعلي بن محمد الوليد | 1209 –1215(605 – 612) | 6 years, 9 months, 2 days | Al-Aghmur (Haraaz)(exact site unknown) | Syedna Ali bin Hanzala | ||||
| 3. Moulai Ishaq bin Yaqub(Patan, Gujarat) | |||||||||
| 6 | Ali bin Hanzala al-Waade'eeعلي بن حنظلة الوادي | 1215 – 1229(612 – 626) | 13 years, 6 months, 14 days | Hamdaan(exact site unknown) | Syedna Ahmed bin Mubaarak | Syedna Husain bin Ali bin Maula Muhammad bin il-Waleed | |||
| 7 | Ahmed bin Mubarak Al Walidاحمد بن مبارك الوليد | 1229 –1230(626–627) | 1 year, 3 months, 16 days | Sana'a(exact site unknown) | Syedna Husain bin Ali bin Maula Muhammad bin il-Waleed | Syedi Ahmed bin Syedna Ali bin Hanzala | |||
| 8 | Husain bin Ali bin Maula Mohammed bin il-Waleedحسين بن علي صاحب الوليد | 1230 –1268(627–667) | 39 years, 7 months, 24 days | Syedi Ahmed bin Syedna Ali bin Hanzala(d.651 AH)----Ali bin Husain | Syedi Mohammad bin As'ad bin Mubarak | ||||
| 4. Moulai Ali bin Ishaq(Patan, Gujarat.) | |||||||||
| 9 | Ali bin Husain علي بن حسين بن علي بن محمد | 1268 –1284(667–682) | 15 years, 8 months, and 20 days | Syedi Husain bin Ali bin Hanzala(d.677 AH)----Ali bin Syedi Husain bin Ali bin Hanzala | Sheikh Assad Hatim Sanjaani | ||||
| 10 | Ali bin Syedi Husain bin Ali bin Hanzalaعلي بن الحسين بن علي بن حنظلة | 1284 –1287(682 – 686) | 3 years, 2 months, and 18 days | Ibrahim bin Husain | |||||
| 11 | Ibrahim bin Husain Al Walidابراهيم بن حسين الوليد | 1287 –1328(686 –728) | 42 years, 8 months, 9 days | Hisne-Af'eda, Hafat Idris,Sana'a Governorate | Hamdan | Syedna Mohammad bin Syedi Hatim | |||
| 5. Syedi HasanFeer Shaheed bin Ali(d. 795 AH/1392 CE) (Denmal, Gujarat.) | |||||||||
| 12 | Mohammed bin Hatim bin Syedna Husain Al Walid محمد بن حاتم الوليد | 1328 –1329(728 – 729) | 1 year, 1 month, and 21 days | Syedna Ali bin Syedna Ibrahim | |||||
| 13 | Ali Shamsuddin I bin Ibrahimعلي شمس الدين بن ابراهيم | 1329 –1345(729 – 746) | 16 years, 7 months, and 17 days | Syedna Abdul-Muttalib Najmuddin | |||||
| 14 | Abdul-Muttalib Najmuddin bin Mohammedعبد المطلب نجم الدين | 1345 –1354(746 – 755) | 8 years, 11 months, 26 days | Zimarmar Fort | Zimarmar | Syedna Abbas bin Muhammed | |||
| 15 | Abbas bin Muhammadعباس بن محمد | 1354 –1378(755 – 779) | 24 years, 2 months, 24 days | Hisne-Af'eda, Hafat Idris,Sana'a Governorate | Abdullah Fakhruddin bin Ali | ||||
| 16 | Abdullah Fakhruddin bin Ali bin Syedna Mohammed | 1378 –1407(779 – 809) | 29 years, 11 months, 1 day | Zimarmar Fort | Syedi Ali bin Abdullah Shaibaani(d.788 AH)----Syedi Husain (d.796H)----Syedna Hasan Badruddin I | Syedi Abdul Muttalib bin Abdullah | |||
| 17 | Hasan Badruddin I bin Abdullah Fakhruddinحسن بدر الدين بن عبد الله | 1407 –1418(809 – 821) | 12 years, 27 days | Syedi Abdul Muttalib Najmuddin(d.811/1408)----Syedi Mohammed bin Idris Asaduddin (d.821/1418) | Syedi Ahmed bin Syedna Abdullah | 6. Maulaya Adam bin Sulaiman (Kankariya, Ahmedabad) | |||
| 18 | Ali Shamsuddin II bin Abdullah Fakhruddinعلي شمس الدين بن عبد الله | 1418 –1428(821 – 832) | 10 years, 3 months, 27 days | Al Shariqa | Al Shariqa | Idris Imaduddin | |||
| 7. Maulaya Hasan bin Maulaya Adam (Ahmedabad) | |||||||||
| 19 | Idris Imaduddin bin Hasan Badruddinادريس عماد الدين بن حسن | 1429 –1467(832 – 872) | 40 years, 9 months, 16 days | Shibaam | Shibaam | Syedi Ma'ad Ezzuddin(d.839/840 AH)----Al Maula Masad bin Abdullah | |||
| 20 | Hasan Badruddin II bin Syedna Idris Imaduddinحسن بدر الدين بن إدريس عماد الدين | 1467 –1512(872 – 918) | 45 years, 8 months, 26 days | Masaar | Syedi Abdullah Fakhruddin----Syedna Husain Husamuddin | Syedna Ali Shamsuddin III bin Syedna Husain Husamuddin | |||
| 8. Moulai Raj bin Hasan | |||||||||
| 21 | Husain Husamuddin bin Syedna Idris Imaduddinحسين حسام الدين بن إدريس عمادالدين | 1512 –1527(918 – 933) | 15 years, 1 month, 25 days | Syedna Ali Shamsuddin III bin Syedna Husain Husamuddin | Syedna Mohammed Ezzuddin bin Syedna Hasan Badruddin II | ||||
| 9. Moulai Jafer bin Raj, (Ahmedabad) | |||||||||
| 10. Moulai Wahhab bin Firoz | |||||||||
| 11. Syedi QasimKhan bin Hasan(d. 950AH)(Ahmedabad) | |||||||||
| 22 | Ali Shamsuddin III bin Syedna Husain Husamuddinعلي شمس الدين بن حسين | 1527 –1527(933 – 933) | 1 month, 11 days | Zabid | Syedna Mohammed Izzuddin I | ||||
| 23 | Syedna Mohammed Izzuddin Iمحمد عز الدين بن حسن | 1527 –1539(933–946) | 12 years, 3 months, 6 days | Zabid | Syedna Yusuf Najmuddin I | ||||
| 24 | Yusuf Najmuddin I bin Sulaimanيوسف نجم الدين بن سليمان | 1539 –1567(946 – 974) | 28 years, 9 months, 19 days | Taibah | Siddhpur, India | Syedna Jalal Shamsuddin bin Hasan | Syedi Miyasaheb Musaji | Mughal Emperor Humayun grants free trade to Bohras.Building of stepwell and separate bazaar in Siddhpur | |
| 12. Syedna Jalal Shamsuddin bin Hasan |
| 25 | Jalal Shamshuddin bin Hasanجلال شمش الدين بن حسن | 1567 –1568(974 – 975) | 4 months | Ahmedabad | Ahmedabad | Dawood Burhanuddin bin Ajabshah | ||
| 26 | Dawood Burhanuddin bin Ajabshah | 1568 – 1589(975 – 997) | 22 years, 11 days | Dawood Burhanuddin bin QutubShah bin Khwaja bin Ali | Syedi QaziKhan Shujauddin bin AminShah | Syedi Musan-ji bin Taj martyred in boiling oil.Syedi Khoj bin Malak. | ||
| 27[6] | Dawood Burhanuddin bin QutubShah bin Khwaja bin Ali | 1589 –1612(999 –1021) | 24 years, 1 month, 17 days | Syedi QaziKhan Shujauddin bin AminShah(d. 999/1591)----ShaikhAdam Safiyuddin | Syedi Ameen-ji bin Jalal----Maulaya Ali Mohammad bin Firoz----ShaikhAdam Safiyuddin | Branching off of the Sulaimani Bohras | ||
| 28 | Sheikh Adam Safiuddin bin TaiyibShah | 1612 –1621(1021 –1030) | 9 years, 21 days | Abduttayyeb Zakiuddin | Syedi Ali Mohammad bin Firoz | |||
| 29[7] | Abduttayyeb Zakiuddin I | 1622 –1633 | 1030 –1041 | Ali Shamsuddin | Qasim Khan Zainuddin | |||
| 30 | Ali Shamsuddin IV bin Moulai Hasan | 1633 –1634 | 1041 –1042 | Qasim Khan Zainuddin | ||||
| 31 | Qasim Khan Zainuddin bin Feerkhan | 1634 –1646 | 1042–1054 | Ahmedabad | Qutub Khan Qutbuddin | |||
| 32 | Qutub Khan Qutbuddin Shaheed | 1646 –1648 | 1054–1056 | Feer Khan Shujauddin | ||||
| 33 | Feer Khan Shujauddin bin Syedi Ahmedji | 1648 –1657 | 1056–1065 | Ismail Badruddin | ||||
| 34 | Ismail Badruddin I bin Syedi Moulai Raj Saheb | 1657 –1676 | 1065–1085 | Jamnagar | Syedi Najamkhan----Syedi Abdutaiyyeb Zakiyuddin | Al Maula Abdul Waheed----Al Maula Shams Khan | ||
| 35 | Abduttayyeb Zakiuddin II bin Syedna Ismail Badruddin I | 1676 –1692 | 1085 –1110 | Musa Kalimuddin | Sheikh Adam Safiyuddin | |||
| 36 | Musa Kalimuddin bin Abduttayyeb Zakiuddin II | 1692 –1711 | 1110 –1122 | Sheikh Adam Safiyuddin----Noor Mohammad Nooruddin | Syedi Khanji Pheer | |||
| 37 | Noor Mohammad Nooruddin bin Musa Kalimuddin | 1711 –1719 | 1122 –1130 | Syedi Qasimkhan bin Syedi Hamzabhai----Ismail Badruddin bin Sheikh Adam | Syedi Hakimuddin bin Bawa Mulla Khan----Syedi EsamkhanSheikh Dawoodbhai | |||
| 38 | Ismail Badruddin II bin Syedi Sheikh Aadam | 1719 –1738 | 1130–1150 | Syedi Kassim Khan bin Syedi Hamzabhai----Syedi Abdul Qadir Hakimuddin bin Bawa Mulla Khan | Syedi Shams bin Sheikh Hasan Khan | |||
| 39 | Ibrahim Wajiuddin bin Syedi Abdul Qadir | 1738 –1756 | 1150 –1168 | Ujjain | Syedi Sheikh Adam bin Nooruddin----Syedna Hebatullah al-Moayyed fid-Deen | Syedi Ali bin Phirji | ||
| 40 | Hebatullah-il-Moayed Fiddeen bin Syedna Ibrahim Wajiuddin | 1756 –1780 | 1168 –1193 | Syedi Lukman | Syedi Abde Musa Kalimuddin | |||
| 41 | Abduttayyeb Zakiuddin III bin Syedna Badruddin | 1780 –1787 | 1193 –1200 | Burhanpur | Syedi Sheikh Adam Safiyuddin----Syedna Yusuf Najmuddin | Syedna Abdeali Saifuddin | ||
| 42 | Yusuf Najmuddin II bin Syedna Abduttayyeb Zakiuddin III | 1787 –1799 | 1200 –1213 | Surat | Syedi Sheikh Adam Safiyuddin----Syedna Abdeali Saifuddin | Syedi Qamruddin----Sheikh Adam | ||
| 43 | Abde Ali Saifuddin bin Syedna Abduttayyeb Zakiuddin III | 1799 –1817 | 1213 –1232 | Syedi Sheikh Adam Safiyuddin----Syedna Mohammad Ezzuddin | Syedi Qamruddin----Syedi Sheikh Adam | |||
| 44 | Mohammed Ezzuddin bin Syedi Jivanjee | 1817 –1821 | 1232 –1236 | Syedi Sheikh Adam Bhaisaheb Safiyuddin | Syedna Taiyyeb Zainuddin | |||
| 45 | Tayyeb Zainuddin bin Syedi Jivanjee | 1821 –1836 | 1236 –1252 | Syedi Sheikh Adam Safiyuddin----Syedi Hebatullah Bhaisaheb Jamaluddin | Syedna Mohammed Badruddin | |||
| 46 | Mohammed Badruddin bin Syedna Abde Ali Saifuddin | 1836 –1840 | 1252 –1256 | Syedi Hebtullah Bhaisaheb Jamaluddin | Syedna Abdulqadir Najmuddin | |||
| 47 | Abdul Qadir Najmuddin bin Syedna Tayyeb Zainuddin | 1840 –1885 | 1256 –1302 | Ujjain | Syedi Hebtullah Bhaisaheb Jamaluddin----Syedna Abdulhusain Husamuddin | Syedi Abdeali Imaduddin----Syedi Ismail Bhaisaheb Badruddin | ||
| 48 | Abdul Husain Husamuddin bin Syedna Tayyeb Zainuddin | 1885 –1891 | 1302 –1308 | Ahmedabad | Syedi Ismail Bhaisaheb Badruddin | Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin | ||
| 49 | Mohammed Burhanuddin I bin Syedna Abdul Qadir Najmuddin | 1891 –1906 | 1308 –1323 | Surat | Syedi Ismail Bhaisaheb Badruddin | Syedi Hasan Bhaisaheb Zakiuddin----Syedi Husain Bhaisaheb Ezzuddin | ||
| 50 | Abdullah Badruddin bin Syedna Abdul Husain Husamuddin | 1906 –1915 | 1323 –1333 | Syedi Ismail Bhaisaheb Badruddin----Syedi Dawood Bhaisaheb Shehabuddin | Syedi Ibrahim Bhaisaheb Vajihuddin----Syedi Taiyyeb Bhaisaheb Zainuddin | |||
| 51 | Taher Saifuddin bin Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin I | 1915 –1965 | 1333 –1385 | Mumbai | Syedi Dawood Bhaisaheb Shahabuddin----Syedi Fazal Bhaisaheb Qutbuddin----Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin | Syedi Eshaq Bhaisaheb Jamaluddin----Syedi Saleh Bhaisaheb Safiyuddin | ||
| 52 | Mohammed Burhanuddin II bin Syedna Taher Saifuddin | 1965 –2014 | 1385 –1435 | Khuzaima Qutbuddin | Syedi Saleh Bhaisaheb Safiyuddin----Syedi Hussain Bhaisaheb Husamuddin | |||
| 53 | Abu Jafar us Sadiq Aali Qadar Mufaddal Saifuddin[8] | 2014 – Present | 1435 – Present | Syedi Hussain Bhaisaheb Husamuddin----Syedi Qasim Bhaisaheb Hakimuddin----Syedi Aliasghar Bhaisaheb Kalimuddin----Syedi Qaidjoher Bhaisaheb Ezzuddin | Syedi Qasim Bhaisaheb Hakimuddin----Syedi Aliasghar Bhaisaheb Kalimuddin----Syedi Qaidjoher Bhaisaheb Ezzuddin----Syedi Malik ul Ashtar Bhaisaheb Shujauddin |