Alavi Bohra

The Alavi Bohras علوي بھرۃ are a Taiyebi Musta'alavi Isma'ili Shi'i Muslim طیبي مستعلوي اسماعیلي شیعۃ مسلم community from Gujarat, India. In India, during the time of the 18th Fatimid Imam Ma'ad al-Mustansir Billah around 1093 AD in Egypt, the designated learned people (wulaat ولاۃ) who were sent from Yemen by the celebrated missionaries-du'aat دعاۃ under the guidance of the Imam established a Da'wah دعوۃ in Khambhat.

After the division of the Mustaalid community, the Yemenite Da'wah followed their 21st Imam, the son of 20th Imam Aamir in the succession of Fatimid Imams of Egypt, at-Taiyeb Abul Qaasim as their Imam of seclusion ستر, and the Bohras are the modern descendants of Taiyebi Da'wah established from Khambhat, Patan and Sidhpur in the 5th century Hijri and also the immigrants from Yemeni Taiyebi Da'wah.

Subsequently, splits occurred at various instances in the mainstream Bohra community regarding the spiritual appointment in the succession of the representative of the Imam us Satr or Da’i in Ahmedabad between 1422-1640 AD. Two major splits during this period resulted in the formation of three major groups of Bohras: Alavis,Dawoodis and Sulaymanis.

After the seclusion of 21st Fatimid Imam at-Taiyeb Abul Qaasim from Egypt in 528 AH, in Yemen under the guidance of Hujjat-e-Imam Saiyedah Hurrah Malekah Arwaa bint Ahmad from 532 AH, one Da'i داعي succeeded another through the tradition of Nass نص -the exclusive spiritual appointment, until the 23rd Da'i i.e. from 1st Da'i Saiyedna Zoeb bin Saiyedi Moosa till 23rd Da'i Saiyedna Mohammad Izzuddin. In Sindh and India too Wali-ul-Hind ولي الھند were appointed by these Du'aat دعاۃ one after another until Wali-ul-Hind Maulaai Ja'far, Maulaai Abd ul Wahab and Maulaai Qaasim Khan bin Hasan (11th and last Wali-ul-Hind, d.950AH, Ahmedabad). The last three wali were of great help in the era of the 21st to 24th Da'i i.e. Saiyedna Husaamuddin (921-932 AH), Saiyedna Shamsuddin (933 AH), Saiyedna Izzuddin (933-946 AH) and Saiyedna Najmuddin (946-974 AH). It was during this time when the seat of Da'wat e Haadiyah was transferred to India from Yemen, that the 23rd Da'i ul-Mutlaq الداعي المطلق Mohammed Izzuddin performed Nass (transfer of authority) on Yusuf Najmuddin bin Saiyedi Sulaiman in Sidhpur, Gujarat, India.

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