found: Work cat.: Harātī, Khayrʹkhvāh. Faṣl dar bayān-i shinākht-i Imām. English. On the recognition of the Imam, 1947:t.p. (Ismaili texts and translations series) (OCoLC)18701610
found: LCSH, July 5, 2022(Ismailites. UF Ismailians; Ismailis. BT Shīʻah)
found: The Institute of Ismaili Studies website, July 5, 2022:about us (The second-largest Shiʿa Muslim community in the world, the Ismailis are settled in over 25 countries across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, North America, and Australia)
found: Encyclopædia Iranica, via WWW, July 5, 2022:Ismaʿilism (a major Shiʿite Muslim community. The Ismaʿilis have had a long and eventful history dating back to the middle of the 2nd/8th century when the Emāmi Shiʿis split into several groups on the death of Imam Jaʿfar al-Ṣādeq; Currently, the Ismaʿilis are comprised of the Nezāri and Ṭayyebi Mostaʿlian branches, and they are scattered as religious minorities in over twenty-five countries of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and North America; the Ismaʿilis represent a diversity of ethnic groups and literary traditions, and speak a variety of languages and dialects, including especially Arabic, Persian as well as a number of Indic and European languages)
found: Daftary, Farhad. Historical dictionary of the Ismailis, ©2012, viewed online July 5, 2022:foreword (The Ismailis are the second largest branch of Shi‘a Islam) introd. (The second most important Shi‘i Muslim community after the Ithnā‘asharīs, or Twelvers, the Ismailis have had a long and eventful history dating back to the middle of the second/eighth century in the formative period of Islam; Since the end of the fifth/11th century, the Ismailis have existed in terms of two main communities, the Musta‘lians and the Nizārīs) chronology (Ismaili Muslims)
found: Britannica online, July 5, 2022(Ismāʿīliyyah, sect of Shiʿah Islam that was most active as a religiopolitical movement in the 9th-13th century through its constituent movements--the Fāṭimids, the Qarāmiṭah (Qarmatians), and the Nīzarīs. In the early 21st century it was the second largest of the three Shiʿah communities in Islam, after the Twelver Shiʿah and before the Zaydi Shiʿah (Zaydis); Ismāʿīlīs)
