Sulaymani
For the city in Iraqi Kurdistan, see Sulaymaniyah.
Sulaymani Bohras (Sulaymanis) are a Musta‘lī Ismaili community that predominantly reside in Saudi Arabia (Najran), Yemen, Pakistan and India. They are also called Makrami.[1] They number between several hundred thousand and one million in Saudi Arabia alone.[2] They belong to Tayyibi Ismailis, which bifurcated into various Bohras including major group Dawoodi Bohra.
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- Farhad Daftary The Ismailis Their History & Doctrines1990
- Hollister. John N. The Shi'a of India London 1953
- Lokhandwalla. The Bohras. a Muslim community of Gujarat 1955
- Hazrat Mohammed Shakir Zia "Urdu translation from Arabic: Biography of Dai- Mutlaq Sayedna Sulayman B. Hasan 1357H".
- Mulla Saadullah bin Sayyadi Almansub Nasrullah Saheb,- References from scores of History books of Da'wa, including letters from Duat and Manaaseeb by and between them.
- Mulla Masood M. Ali "Sulaymani Census and Survey in India & Pakistan"
- Mulla Masood m. Ali "Extracted and translation in English of "Seerat-ul-Manaseeb" 1346H.
- Asif A. Fyzee "Three Sulaymani Dai's"
- Hussain B. Tyabji " History of Badarbagh Trust" 1947
- Syed Amin Jafri "Sulaimani Bohras" an article in Newtimes Hyderabad 1984
- Zia-ul-Eimaan No.40 A in house sulaymani Journal
- Mulla Ameeruddin "Urdu translation of Nuzhat-ul-Azhaan", the AutoBiography of Dai-mutlaq Sayedna Jafar b. Sayedna Sulayman B. Hasan
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