Ismailism
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Ismailism, known historically and among practitioners as Batiniyya, is a denomination of Shia Islam. Like all Shia, the Ismailis emphasize a distinction between the exoteric and esoteric dimension of
Ismaili Center in Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo was originally built as the official mosque of a new Fatimid capital between 970 and 972 and became an educational institution that disseminated Isma'ili doctrine.
View of Alamut besieged
Ismāʿīlīs believe the Quran has two layers of meaning, the zāhir, meaning apparent, and the bātin, meaning hidden.
Druze
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The Druze, who call themselves al-Muwaḥḥidūn, are an esoteric religious group of Arabs who adhere to Druzism or the Druze faith, an Abrahamic, esoteric, monotheistic, ethnic, and syncretic religion wh
Ismailism
…One was a promotion by merit rather than genealogy. Also during this period, the three contemporary branches of Isma'ilism formed. The first branch (Druze) occurred with the al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah. Born in 985, he ascended as ruler at the age of eleven. A religious group that began forming in his lifetime…
The Shrine of Shu'ayb near Hittin in the Galilee, Israel
Sixth Fatimid caliph, al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah
The saray in Deir al-Qamar, seat of the Ma'an dynasty under Fakhr al-Din
Meeting of Druze and Ottoman leaders in Damascus, about the control of Jebel Druze