ʿAbd Allāh al-Raḍī, (
actual name: Abu ʿAlī
[ Daftary, Farhad]
''The Isma'ilis: Their History and Doctrines,''
Cambridge University Press
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, pg. 108. al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ( ar, ﺍلحسين بن أحمد بن عبد اللّه بن محمد بن إسماعيل; born 219 AH, died 268AH or 881 AD in Askar,
Syria
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; Imamate: 225–268AH) surnamed al-Raḍī/al-Zakī) is the tenth
Isma'ili Imam. He is son and successor to the ninth Imam,
Ahmad ibn Abd Allah (Muhammad al-Taqi), and the father of
Abd Allah al-Mahdi Billah
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh/ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn (), 873 – 4 March 934, better known by his regnal name al-Mahdi Billah, was the founder of the Isma'ili Fatimid Caliphate, the only major Shi'a caliphate in Islamic history, and the e ...
, the Imam who founded the
Fatimid Caliphate
The Fatimid Caliphate was an Isma'ilism, Ismaili Shia Islam, Shi'a caliphate extant from the tenth to the twelfth centuries AD. Spanning a large area of North Africa, it ranged from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Red Sea in the ea ...
.
The eighth to tenth Isma'ili Imams were hidden from the public because of threats from the
Abbasid Caliphate
The Abbasid Caliphate ( or ; ar, الْخِلَافَةُ الْعَبَّاسِيَّة, ') was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It was founded by a dynasty descended from Muhammad's uncle, Abbas ibn Abdul-Muttalib ...
and were known by nicknames. However, the
Dawoodi Bohra
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in their religious text, ''Taqqarub'', claim to have the true names of all 21 imams in sequence, including those of the hidden Imams: the eighth Imam
Abd Allah ibn Muhammad (Ahmad al-Wafi), the ninth Imam Ahmad ibn Abd Allah (Muhammad al-Taqi), and the tenth Imam Husayn ibn Ahmad (ʿAbd Allāh al-Raḍī).
See also
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List of Isma'ili imams
This is a list of the Imams as recognized by the different sub-sects of the Ismai'li sect of Shia Islam. Imams are considered members of the '' Bayt'' (Household) of Muhammad through his daughter Fatimah.
Early Imams
All Isma'ili sects shar ...
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Family tree linking Prophets to Shi'ite Imams
References
Ismaili imams
832 births
881 deaths
9th-century Arabs
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