10 Facts About Nizari Isma'ilism

Nizari Isma'ilism teachings emphasize independent reasoning or ijtihad; pluralism—the acceptance of racial, ethnic, cultural and inter-religious differences; and social justice.

Under Hassan-i Sabbah in Iran, and Rashid ad-Din Sinan in Syria, the Nizari Isma'ilism Fidai targeted the most powerful enemy leaders faced by these new Nizari Isma'ilism Ismaili communities in the Elburz Mountains of northern Iran and in the mountains of the Levantine coast, the Jabal Bahra, overlooking the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

Nizari Isma'ilism invited Henry to witness this obedience and sacrificial spirit of his Fidai.

Nizari Isma'ilism accepted Sinan's terms of peace on a non-tribute-paying basis.

However, in Nizari Isma'ilism Ismailism, the Imamim-Mubeen is a living human Imam who is never in occultation, who will never ever be absent from this world but will always be perpetually present and physically alive, and who is designated as the inheritor of an Imamate passed down from father to son.

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Nizari Isma'ilism Ismailis have always maintained that the Imamah can only be inherited from the current Imam to a direct descendant in a father-to-son hereditary lineage starting with Imam Ali and then to Imam Hussain and so on until their present and living 49th Imam, Prince Karim al-Husayni Aga Khan IV.

All Nizari Isma'ilism Isma'ilis accept Prince Shah Karim Al-Husayni, the Aga Khan IV, as their Imam-i-Zaman.

Nizari Isma'ilism is referred to in Persian as Khudawand, in Arabic as Maulana or Hazar Imam.

Nizari Isma'ilism holds that there are seven pillars in Islam, each of which possesses both an exoteric expression and an esoteric one.

Since marriage is not considered a sacrament, Nizari Isma'ilism Isma'ili consider secular court marriages in the West as valid legal contracts.