İsmaililer: Yanlış Tanıtılan Bir Şii Müslüman Topluluğu

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İsmaililer, On İki İmamcı veya İsnaaşeri Şiilerinden sonra ikinci en büyük Şii Müslüman topluluğu temsil eder. İslam’ın oluşum dönemine kadar uzanan olaylı ve karmaşık bir tarihleri vardır. Uzun tarihleri boyunca, İsmaililer bir dizi büyük kollara ve küçük gruplara ayrıldılar. Bununla birlikte, 5./11. yüzyılın sonundan beri, Güney Asya’da sırasıyla Hocalar ve Bohralar olarak adlandırılan Nizariler ve Musta’li-Tayyibiler olmak üzere iki ana kol olarak var olmuşlardır. Halihazırda İsmaililer, Asya, Orta Doğu, Afrika, Avrupa ve Kuzey Amerika’nın yaklaşık otuz ülkesine dini azınlıklar olarak dağılmış durumda. Sayıları birkaç milyon olan bu topluluklar aynı zamanda çeşitli etnik grupları, kültürel ve edebi gelenekleri temsil eder ve çeşitli dilleri konuşurlar. Sürekli bir İmamlar veya manevi liderler çizgisine sahip olan Nizari İsmaililer, şimdi Prens Kerim Ağa Han’ı 49. İmamları olarak kabul ederken, Musta’li-Tayyibi İsmaililerin İmamları 524/1130’dan beri gizli kalmış ve onların yokluğunda dailer veya en yüksek otoriteye sahip temsilciler bu topluluğa önderlik etmiştir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• İsmaililer
• Şii Müslüman Cemaati
• Nizari İsmaililer
• Musta’li-Tayyibiler

The Ismailis: A Misrepresented Shiʿi Muslim Community

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The Ismailis represent the second largest Shiʿi Muslim community, after the Twelver or Ithnaʿashari Shiʿis. They have had an eventful and complex history dating back to the formative period of Islam. In the course of their long history, the Ismailis became subdivided into a number of major branches and minor groupings. However, since the end of the 5th/11th century, they have existed in terms of two main branches, the Nizaris and the Mustaʿli-Tayyibis, designated respectively as Khojas and Bohras in South Asia. Currently, the Ismailis are scattered as religious minorities in some thirty countries of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and North America. Numbering several millions, they also represent a diversity of ethnic groups, cultural and literary traditions, and speak a variety of languages. The Nizari Ismailis, who have had a continuous line of Imams or spiritual leaders, now acknowledge Prince Karim Aga Khan IV as their 49th Imam while the Imams of the Mustaʿli-Tayyibi Ismailis have remained in concealment since 524/1130, and

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Ismailis
• Shiʿi Muslim Community
• Nizari Ismailis
• Mustaʿli-Tayyibis.
• Ismailis, Shiʿi Muslim Community, Nizari Ismailis, Mustaʿli-Tayyibis.

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