The Ismaili sect of Shiʿa Islam (Shiʿa Islam itself being the minority current of Islam, accounting for only some 10 percent of the world's Muslim population) separated from the mainstream of Shiʿa Islam in 765, when a...

An important Shiʿite Muslim community, the Ismailis arose in 765 from a disagreement over the successor to the sixth imam, Jaʿfar al. The Ismailis chose Ismaʿil and then traced the imamate through Ismaʿil's son...

The Ismāʿīlī (Urdu: اسماعیلی Ismāʿīlī, Arabic: الإسماعيليون al-Ismāʿīliyyūn; Persian: اسماعیلیان Esmāʿīliyān) branch of Islam is the second largest part of the Shī'a community, after the Twelvers...

LEADERS of Afghanistan's minority Ismaili community, who abandoned their traditional neutrality early this year to join the opposition alliance in the country's civil war, are suing for peace after suffering a string of defeats at the hands of the government. Ahmed Shah Massoud,...

Gender roles in the Ismaili Muslim community were examined. Eighty-one Shia Imami Nizari Ismaili Muslims living in Ontario, Canada, provided demographic data and completed the Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI; Bem, 1981) and the Attitudes Toward Women Scale (AWS; Spence, Helmreich, & Stapp, 1973). The...

Hundreds of people held an anti-gay protest in Uganda's capital Tuesday, denouncing what they called an "immoral" lifestyle and demanding the deportation of an American journalist writing about gay rights in the deeply conservative country.Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda, like in most African states, and...