List of Isma'ili missionaries explained

This is a list of Isma'ili missionaries (da'is).

Background

The simplified description of the hierarchy (hudūd) of the organization of the Ismaili da'wah was as follows:^{[1] [2] [3]}

• Nāṭiq (Arabic: ناطق), the messenger-propher.
• Waṣī (Arabic: وصي), the prophet's "legatee".
• Imām (Arabic: امام). The absolute head of the da'wah organization. All senior appointments had to be approved by him.
• Dā'ī ad-Du'āt (Arabic: داعی الدعات literally "Da'i of the Da'is"), "Chief Da'i"; also known as bāb (Arabic: باب, literally "gateway") in Fatimid sources. The administrative head of the organization.
  • Pīr in Indian subcontinent know to be second to imam and no other position is higher than it other than imam. The appointment has to be done by imam and Pir is appointed usually from the imam's family unless title given after death
• Dā'ī kabīr (Persian: داعي كبير) -- "Superior Da'i", "Great Da'i"
• Dā'ī (Arabic: داعي, literally "missionary", plural du'āt) -- "Ordinary Da'i", "Da'i". Always acting as group, not singly; except in a very small area.

See List of the Order of Assassins for examples of Nizari Ismaili Missionaries or du'āt and List of Dai of the Dawoodi Bohra or Da'i al-Mutlaq for examples of Tayyibi Isma'ilism Missionaries or du'āt.

List

Rank	Name	Active years	Sect	Area of influence	Base	References
Chief Da'i	Abu Abdallah al-Khadim	since 903-913 until 919				^[4]
Chief Da'i		909–974	Fatimid doctrine
Chief Da'i		?–971	Fatimid doctrine	Khurasan and Sijistan
Chief Da'i		996–1021	Fatimid doctrine
Chief Da'i		10th-11th century	Fatimid doctrine		Nishapur
Chief Da'i		1048–1078	Fatimid doctrine		House of Knowledge, Cairo
Chief Da'i	Abd al-Malik ibn Attash		Fatimid doctrine	Persia and Iraq (Seljuk territories)	Isfahan
Da'i	Ahmad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Attash		Fatimid doctrine	Isfahan	Shahdiz fortress, Isfahan
Chief Da'i		1090–1124			Alamut Castle
Chief Da'i	Abu Hamza					^[5]
Chief Da'i		1124–1138			Alamut Castle
Chief Da'i		1138–1162			Lambasar Castle, Alamut Castle
Chief Da'i		died in 1103			Aleppo
Chief Da'i
Chief Da'i					Damascus (civilian base) and Baniyas fortress (military base)	^[6]
Chief Da'i	Isma'il al-Ajami
Da'i
Chief Da'i	Abu Muhammad				Al-Kahf Castle
Da'i		~1160–1163		Basra District
Chief Da'i		from 1163-1164 to 1192-1193			Al-Kahf Castle
Chief Da'i	Abu Mansur ibn Muhammad or Nasr al-'Ajami	since 1192 or 1193
Chief Da'i	Kamal al-Din al-Hasan ibn Masud	1222-1223
Chief Da'i	Majd al-Din	1226–1227
Chief Da'i	Siraj al-Din Muzaffar ibn al-Husayn	1227, 1238
Chief Da'i	Taj al-Din Abu al-Futuh ibn Muhammad	1239–1240, 1249				^[7]
Chief Da'i	Radi al-Din Abu al-Ma'ali	1258–1261				^[8]
Chief Da'i	Khwaja Qasim					^[9]
Da'i	Abu Ishaq Quhistani
Da'i	Abu Firas	until 1530 or 1540
Chief Da'i				Yemen and North Africa
Chief Da'i					Salamiyah
Chief Da'i	Abdallah ibn Maymūn Al-Qaddāḥ
Chief Da'i	Maymūn Al-Qaddāḥ
Da'i					Saylahin
Da'i	Abu Muhammad Abdan
Chief Da'i
Chief Da'i	Amir al-Zawahi
Chief Da'i
Da'i
Chief Da'i	Musa ibn Dawud
Da'i	Al-Mukarram Ahmad
Da'i					Iran
Chief Da'i				Ray and Central Persia	Ray
Chief Da'i
Da'i (Hujjat-i Khurasan)		1052–1088	Fatimid doctrine		Yamgan District (1060–1088)
Da'i	Al-Mukarram Ahmad				Jibla, Yemen
Chief Da'i					Hooth
Da'i	Abd al-Malik al-Kawkabi			Jibal
Da'i
Da'i	Yahya ibn Lamak
Da'i					Khambhat
Da'i					Denmaal
Da'i					Galiakot
Da'i					Don Gaon
Da'i					Burhanpur
Pir	Prannath / Imam Mahdi		Nizari (Ismaili Missionary)		Panna
Da'i					Rampura
Pir
Da'i					Ahmedabad
Da'i					Nagpur
Da'i	Muhammad Amiruddin				Nagpur
Da'i					Thane
Da'i					Najran
Da'i					Vadodara
Da'i	Ahmad bin Abdullah bin Maymun			Iran and Iraq	Salamiyah
Da'i	Abu'l-Qasim al-Hasan ibn Faraj ibn Ḥawshab Mansur al-Yaman
Da'i		883–915	Fatimid doctrine (until 911) / Qarmatian doctrine (from 911)
Da'i	Khalaf al-Hallaj			Iran
Da'i	Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ahmad an-Nasafi			Iran	Ray
Da'i				Egypt	Cairo
Da'i	Qadi Abul Hussain Ali bin Noman			Egypt	Cairo
Pir				Pakistan	Multan
Da'i	Taj Mughal			Pakistan	Gilgit and Hunza
Pir	Pir Hasan Kabiruddin			Pakistan	Uchh
Pir	Pir Tajuddin			Pakistan	Lahore
Da'i	Sayed Imam Shah			Pakistan	Uchh, see Satpanth for further information
Da'i	Sayed Rehmatullah Shah			Gujrat and Kutchh
Da'i	Sayed Nurbaksh			Jammu and Kashmir
Da'i	Mir Shamsuddin II			Jammu and Kashmir
Da'i	Badiuddin Khwaja Kassim			Iran	Anjudan
Da'i				India	Udaipur
Da'i				India	Udaipur
Da'i				Yemen	Aden
Da'i				Sudan
Da'i				Pakistan	Hunza Valley
Da'i				Iran	Birjand
Da'i				India
Da'i	Malik Tayfur Anjudani			Iran
Da'i	Sayed Alam Shah			India	Gujarat
Da'i	Sayed Ali Shah			India	Gujarat
Da'i	Sayed Bakir Shah			India	Gujarat
Da'i	Sayed Nur Muhammad Shah			India	Gujarat
Da'i	Muhammad bin Sa'd bin Daud surnamed ar- Rafnah			Syria
Da'i	Nuruddin Ahmad			Syria
Da'i	Abul Ma'ali Hatim bin Imran, eminently known as Ibn Zahra			Syria
Da'i	Sayed Malang Shah			Central Asia	Shagnan
Da'i	Sayed Khamush Shah Shirazi			Central Asia	Shagnan
Da'i				Yemen	Jibla, Yemen
Da'i				Yemen	Jibla, Yemen
Da'i	Amira Darrab			Iran	Ray
Da'i	Hussain Qaini			Iran	Qaen
Da'i				Iraq	Kufa
Da'i	Hasan bin Muhammad bin Kiya Buzurg			Iran	Alamut
Da'i	Abu Jabala Ibrahim bin Ghassan			Egypt	Cairo
Da'i	Jabir al-Manufi			Lebanon	Tyre
Da'i	Abul Fawaris al-Hasan bin Muhammad al-Mimadhi			Israel	Acre
Da'i	Abul Hussain Ahmad bin Muhammad bin al-Kumayt			Israel	Askelon
Da'i	Abu Muhammad al-Tabari			Iran	Tabaristan
Da'i	Abul Hasan al-Halabi			Syria	Aleppo
Da'i	Abu Tamim Abul Kassim al-Bukhari			Uzbekistan	Bukhara
Da'i	Abul Wafa al-Daylami			Iran	Daylam
Da'i	Ibn Abi'l Dibs			Syria	Damascus
Da'i	Khuzayma bin Abi Khuzayma			Iraq	Baghdad
Da'i	Abu Abdullah bin al-Naman			Iraq	Baghdad
Da'i	Abu Abdullah al-Khadim			Iran	Nishapur
Da'i	Abul Abbas			Tunisia	Mahdia
Da'i	Abdullah bin Abbas al-Shawiri			Yemen	Ahwaz
Da'i				Kuwait	Kazma
Chief Da'i				Egypt	Cairo
Da'i	Zayn bin Abi Faraj			Syria
Da'i	Ibrahim bin Abi'l Fawaris			Syria
Da'i	Ismail			Syria
Da'i	Nasir ad-Dawla Iftagin at-Turki			Egypt	Alexandria
Da'i	Jalal ad-Dawla bin Ammar			Egypt	Alexandria
Pir	Pir Satgur Noor/Sayyid Nooruddin Noor Muhammad			India	Gujarat
Da'i	Pir Sayed Muinuddin Hasan			Iran	Sabzevar
Da'i	Sayed Salauddin			Iran	Sabzevar
Da'i				Egypt	Cairo
Da'i				Egypt	Cairo
Da'i				Syria	Beit Jann
Da'i	Hasan al-Akhram al-Farghani			Egypt	Cairo
Pir	Pir Nasiruddin			Punjab	Uchh
Pir	Pir Sahib'adin			India
Da'i	Sayed Ruknuddin			India
Da'i	Sayed Badruddin			India
Da'i	Sayed Shamsuddin II			India
Da'i	Sayed Ghiasuddin			India
Da'i	Khaki Khorasani			Iran	Khorasan
Da'i	Ali Quli Raqqami			Iran	Khorasan
Da'i	Khwajah Qasim Tushtari			Iran	Alamut
Da'i	Muhammad Abu al-Makarim			Syria
Da'i	Shihab al-Din Abu Firas			Syria
Da'i	Abul Haytham Gorgani			Iran	Gorgan
Da'i	Mohammed ibn Sork			Iran	Nishapur
Da'i	Sayyed Didarali			India
Da'i	Sayyed Mustakali			India
Da'i	Sayyed Nour Baksh			India
Da'i	Sayyed Auliya Ali			India
Da'i	Sayyed Amir Ahmed			Arabia	Medina
Da'i	Sayyed Nooruddin			Arabia	Medina
Da'i	Sayyed Nasser Mohammed			Iran
Da'i	Pir Qasim Shah			Iran
Da'i	Sayyed Noor Mehdi			India
Da'i	Sayyed Hyder Shah			India
Da'i	Ibrahim Jusab Varteji			India
Da'i	Assad bin Kassim Al-Ajami			Syria	Aleppo
Da'i	Ibrahim bin Ismail Al Ajami			Syria	Aleppo
Da'i	Pir Sayyed Alauddin			Afghanistan	Badakshan
Da'i	Ahmad Hadi			Yemen
Da'i	Sayyed Zahiruddin			India
Da'i	Rodaki			Central Asia
Da'i	Sayyed Shah Qalandar			India
Da'i	Pir Mahmud Shah			Iran	Sabzevar
Da'i	Pir Muhibuddin			Iran	Sabzevar
Da'i	Pir Muhammad Zaman			Iran
Da'i	Pir Baba Hashem Shah			Iran
Da'i	Pir Mirza Shah Qasimali			Iran
Da'i	Pir Abul Hassan Ali			Iran
Da'i	Pir Mehrab Beg			Iran
Da'i	Seyyed Ali Asghar Beg			Iran
Da'i	Seyyed Akbar Ali Beg			Iran
Da'i	Mirza Mohammed Baqir			Iran
Da'i	Mohammed bin Ali bin Hasan As-Souri			Syria
Da'i	Seyyed Lal Shah Baz Qalandar			India
Da'i	Pir Khaliquddin			Iran
Pir	Pir Ismailbhai Gangji			India
Da'i	Seyyed Islamuddin			India
Da'i	Seyyed Imamuddin Indra			India
Da'i	Hatem Bin Mahmoud bin Zahrah			Syria
Da'i	Seyyed Hasan Shah			India
Da'i	Pir Ghalibuddin			North Africa
Da'i	Seyyed Gheb Shah			India
Da'i	Firuz			Yemen
Da'i	Anushtakin Al-Duzbari			Syria
Da'i	Abdul Majid			Yemen
Da'i	Seyyed Adam Mehdi			India
Da'i	Aga Jehangir Shah			India
Da'i	Seyyed Bala Shah			India
Da'i	Pir Abdul Momin			India
Da'i	Pir Salamuddin			India
Da'i	Seyyed Khaliq Shah			India
Da'i	Seyyed Jalaluddin			India
Da'i	Seyyed Awal Shah			India
Da'i	Pir Aga Aziz			Afghanistan
Da'i				India
Da'i				India
Da'i				Yemen
Da'i				Tunisia	Kairouan
Da'i				Tunisia	Kairouan
Da'i	Fidai Khorasani			Iran
Da'i	Sayed Munir			Afghanistan	Shagnan, Badakhshan
Da'i	Abu Aly A. Aziz
Da'i	Kassim Ali
Da'i	Noormohomed Rahimtullah
Da'i	Noordin Amlani
Da'i	Alibhai Nanji
Da'i	Jaffer Ali A. Bhalwani
Da'i	Jaffer Ali Muhammad Somji Sufi
Da'i	Juma Bhagat Ismail
Da'i	Bandali Bhagat Ismail
Da'i	Nurullah Bhagat Ismail
Da'i	Karam Hussain
Da'i	Kara Ruda
Da'i	Kassim Ali Muhammad Jaffer
Da'i	Kassim Ali R. Paroo
Da'i	Khuda Baksh Talib
Da'i	Muhammad Murad Ali Juma
Da'i	Sultanali Nazarali Walji
Da'i	Abul Kassim Muhammad Kuhpayai known as Amiri Shirazi or Kassim Amiri				Iran
Da'i	Sayed Dadu or Pir Dadu				India
Da'i	Sayed Abdul Nabi				India
Da'i	Pir Shihabuddin Shah				India
Da'i	Abu Al Fath				Syria
Da'i					Syria
Da'i	Abu'l Hasan Sinan bin Suleman bin Muhammad				Iraq
Da'i	Zahiri Faryabi				Daylam
Chief Da'i	Kamaluddin Kohistani				Quhistan
Da'i	Shamsuddin bin Daulatshah				Syria
Da'i	Shihabuddin bin Ibrahim al-Mainaqi				Syria
Da'i	Muhammad bin al-Jazirah				Syria
Da'i	Abu Mansur al-Yameni al-Shadili				Syria
Da'i	Muhammad Abul Makrim				Syria
Da'i	Muhammad bin al-Fazal bin Ali al-Baza'i				Syria
Da'i	Khayr Khwah Herati or Muhammad Reza bin Sultan Hussain Ghuriyan Herati				Afghanistan
Da'i	Sayed Suhrab Wali Badakhshani				Afghanistan
Da'i	Sayed Umar Yamghani				Afghanistan
Da'i	Zayn al-Abidin bin Hussain bin Khushnam Angawani				Iran
Da'i	Sayed Shah Zahur				Yasin and Punial
Da'i	Sayed Bakir Shah				Yasin and Punial
Da'i	Sayed Karim Hyder				Yasin and Punial
Da'i	Sayed Shah Ardbil				Gilgit and Hunza
Da'i	Sayed Hussain Ardbil				Gilgit and Hunza
Da'i	Sayed Yaqut Shah				Gilgit and Hunza
Da'i	Sayed Shah Abdur Rahim				Gilgit and Hunza
Da'i	Sayed Ghulam Ali Shah				Gilgit and Hunza
Da'i	Khwaja Shah Talib				Gilgit and Hunza
Da'i	Mirza Ismail				Gilgit and Hunza
Da'i	Khwaja Shahid				Gilgit and Hunza
Chief Da'i	Sheikh al-Hajj Khidr				Syria
Chief Da'i	Sheikh Muhammad al-Suwaydani				Syria
Chief Da'i	Mu'ayyad al-Din Muzaffar ibn Ahmad Mustawfi				Iran
Chief Da'i	Qadi Tajuddin Mardanshah				Iran
Da'i	Maulana Dakhli				India
Chief Da'i	Shawiri	915-?	Fatimid doctrine
Chief Da'i	Abu Ibrahim Asadabadi	12th Century

See also

• List of Ismaili imams
• List of Dai of Dawoodi Bohra
• Alavi Bohras
• Atba-i-Malak
• Sulaymani
• Da'i al-Mutlaq
• Dawah

Notes and References

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3. Book: Serjeant . R. B. . Arabian Studies . 1976 . C. Hurst & Co. . 9780903983570 . 102 . en.
4. Book: Daftary . Farhad . Historical Dictionary of the Ismailis . 2012 . Scarecrow Press . 9780810861640 . 3 . en.
5. Web site: Daftary . Dr. Farhad . Farhad Daftary . The Mediaeval Ismailis of the Iranian Lands The Institute of Ismaili Studies . www.iis.ac.uk . 1 April 2020.
6. Book: Wasserman . James . The Templars and the Assassins: The Militia of Heaven . 2001 . Simon and Schuster . 9781594778735 . en.
7. Book: Mirza . Nasseh Ahmad . Syrian Ismailism: The Ever Living Line of the Imamate, AD 1100-1260 . 1997 . Psychology Press . 9780700705054 . 44 . Mirza44 . en.
8. Book: Daftary . Farhad . The Isma'ilis: Their History and Doctrines . 2007 . Cambridge University Press . 9781139465786 . 389 . en.
9. Book: Daftary . Farhad . Historical Dictionary of the Ismailis . 2012 . Scarecrow Press . 9780810861640 . 4 . en.