The Nizari Ismaili sect’s roots go back to another succession dispute within the Fatimid empire. Their connection with India may go back to trade along India’s western coast.

High inside a secret mountain fortress, the Nizari Ismaili, a small Muslim sect, ... Most Shiites today live in Iran, Pakistan, India, and Iraq.

Iran’s Alborz Mountains, where an ... At a stroke the so-called “Nizari Ismailis” were on the run and missionaries like Sabbah dispersed mainly across northern Iran and Syria to rally ...

A European depiction of Hasan Sabbah, an 11th-century leader of the Nizari Ismailis, and his followers in a garden paradise Public domain via Wikimedia Commons In 1295, merchant-explorer Marco ...

Assassination teams are nothing new to Iran; their roots go back as far as the 11th century, to a sect of Ismaili Shiite Muslims known as the Nizari.

The Nizari Ismaili state managed to survive for 166 years. But it could not withstand the Mongols , who began their conquest of the Islamic world in 1219 and pushed the Nizaris out of fortress ...

Karim Al-Hussaini, also known as the Aga Khan, died on Tuesday, February 4, aged 88. A colossally wealthy philanthropist, he was also the imam of the Nizari Ismaili faith, an esoteric branch of ...

At a stroke the so-called “Nizari Ismailis” were on the run and missionaries like Sabbah dispersed mainly across northern Iran and Syria to rally sympathizers and find redoubts in which to ...