Khalīl Allāh I (

Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter ...

: خليل الله الاول), known in

Nizari Isma'ili The Nizaris ( ar, النزاريون, al-Nizāriyyūn, fa, نزاریان, Nezāriyān) are the largest segment of the Ismaili Muslims, who are the second-largest branch of Shia Islam after the Twelvers. Nizari teachings emphasize independent ...

tradition by the Sufi name Dhūʾl-Faqār ʿAlī (Arabic: ذو الفقار علي), was the 37th imam of the Qasim-Shahi branch of Nizari Isma'ilism. Khalil Allah succeeded his father Murad Mirza when the latter died in 1574. Like his father, he resided and was buried at

Anjudan Anjudan ( fa, انجدان, also Romanized as Anjedān; also known as Andījān, Anjidān, and Injadān) is a village in Amanabad Rural District, in the Central District of Arak County, Markazi Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its populatio ...

in central

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, where his tombstone survives to this day. The tombstone gives the date of his death as March 1634. Khalil Allah had close relations with the ruling Safavid dynasty. He married a princes, possibly a daughter of

Shah Abbas I Abbas I ( fa, ; 27 January 157119 January 1629), commonly known as Abbas the Great (), was the 5th Safavid Shah (king) of Iran, and is generally considered one of the greatest rulers of Iranian history and the Safavid dynasty. He was the third so ...

(), and in 1627, the Savafid ruler issued an edict exempting the Shi'a of Anjudan from certain taxes. As

Farhad Daftary Farhad Daftary ( fa, فرهاد دفترى; born 1938 in Brussels) is a Belgian-born Iranian-British Islamic scholar who is co-director and head of the Department of Academic Research and Publications at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London. ...

points out, the edict refers to the Anjudani Shi'a as

Twelvers Twelver Shīʿīsm ( ar, ٱثْنَا عَشَرِيَّة; '), also known as Imāmīyyah ( ar, إِمَامِيَّة), is the largest branch of Shīʿa Islam, comprising about 85 percent of all Shīʿa Muslims. The term ''Twelver'' refers t ...

, indicating that Khalil Allah and his followers were hiding their true faith. He was succeeded by his son, Nur al-Dahr Ali.

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* {{Shia Imams 16th-century births 1634 deaths Nizari imams 16th-century Iranian people 17th-century Iranian people Iranian Ismailis 16th-century Ismailis 17th-century Ismailis 16th-century Islamic religious leaders 17th-century Islamic religious leaders 16th-century people of Safavid Iran 17th-century people of Safavid Iran People from Markazi Province