Ali Shams al-Din II

Ali Shams al-Din (Arabic: علي شمس الدين‎) (Arabic: ʿAlī Shams al-Dīn ibn ʿAbdallāh ibn al-Walīd‎) was the 18th Tayyibi Isma'ili Dāʿī al-Muṭlaq in Yemen. He succeeded his brother al-Hasan Badr al-Din I in 1418, and held the post until his death in 1428, when he was succeeded by his nephew (al-Hasan's son) Idris Imad al-Din.[1][2]

Not to be confused with Ali Shams al-Din I, Ali Shams al-Din III, or Ali Shams al-Din IV.

In 1426, the Zaydi imam of Sana'a, al-Mansur Ali (r. 1391–1436), captured Dhu Marmar after a siege, but allowed the Dāʿī with his family, followers, and possessions to leave the town and move to Haraz, which became the new base of the Tayyibi movement.[2] The Tayyibis also lost a number of other fortresses to the Zaydis at this time, which were later recovered by Idris Imad al-Din.[2]

It was during his tenure that there was a major split into Sunni Bohra led by Jafar bin Khwaja, a native of Patan, Gujarat in Gujarat, India.

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  Mausoleum of Ali Shams al-Din, al-Shariqa, Yemen
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  Grave of Ali Shams al-Din and other missionaries, al-Shariqa, Yemen
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  Entrance of the mausoleum

References

1. Qutbuddin 2018.
2. Daftary 2007, p. 268.

Sources

• Daftary, Farhad (2007). The Ismāʿı̄lı̄s: Their History and Doctrines (Second ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-61636-2.
• Qutbuddin, Tahera (2018). "Idrīs ʿImād al-Dīn". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE. Brill Online. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_32368. ISSN 1873-9830.

Preceded by al-Hasan Badr al-Din I

Dā'ī al-Mutlaq of Tayyibi Isma'ilism 1418–1428 CE

Succeeded by Idris Imad al-Din