Editing Ismailism (section)

====Threshold of the Imāmate====
{{Main|Nizar (Fatimid Imam)}}
[[Image:A28alamut.jpg|thumb|View of [[Alamut]] besieged.]]
After the imprisonment of Nizar by his younger brother Ahmad al Mustaali, various sources indicate that Nizar's son Ali Al-Hadi ibn Nizari survived and fled to Alamut. He was offered a safe place in Alamut, where Hassan-Al-Sabbah welcomed him. However, it is believed this was not announced to the public and the lineage was hidden until a few Imāms later to avoid further attacks hostility.<ref name="Alamut" />

It was announced with the advent of Imam Hassan II. In a show of his Imamate and to emphasize the interior meaning (the [[Batin (Islam)|batin]]) over the exterior meaning (the [[Zahir (Islam)|zahir]]), only two years after his accession, the Imām Hasan 'Ala Zikrihi al-Salam conducted a ceremony known as ''qiyama'' (resurrection) at the grounds of the [[Alamut Castle]], whereby the Imam would once again become visible to his community of followers in and outside of the [[Nizārī Ismā'īlī state]]. Given [[Ata al-Mulk Juvayni|Juwayni]]'s polemical aims, and the fact that he burned the Isma'ili libraries which may have offered much more reliable testimony about the history, scholars have been dubious about his narrative but are forced to rely on it given the absence of alternative sources. Fortunately, descriptions of this event are also preserved in [[Rashid-al-Din Hamadani|Rashid al-Din]]'s narrative and recounted in the Haft Bab Baba-yi Sayyidna, written 60 years after the event, and the later Haft Bab-i Abi Ishaq, an Ismaili book of the 15th century AD. However, Rashid al-Din's narrative is based on [[Ata al-Mulk Juvayni|Juwayni]],<ref name=":0">{{Citation|last=Daftary|first=Farhad|title=Nizārī Ismāʿīlī history during the Alamūt period|work=The Ismā῾īlīs|year=2007|pages=301–402|place=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press|doi=10.1017/cbo9780511497551.009|isbn=978-0-511-49755-1}}</ref> and the Nizari sources do not go into specific details. Since very few contemporary Nizari Ismaili accounts of the events have survived, and it is likely that scholars will never know the exact details of this event. However, there was no total abrogation of all law; only certain exoteric rituals like the Salah/Namaz, Fasting in Ramadan, Hajj to Makkah, and facing Makkah in prayer were abrogated; however, the Nizaris continued to perform rituals of worship, except these rituals were more esoteric and spiritually oriented. For example, the true prayer is to remember God at every moment; true fasting is to keep all of the body's organs away from whatever is unethical and forbidden. Ethical conduct is enjoined at all times.{{cn|date=May 2022}}

Afterward, his descendants ruled as the Imams at Alamut until its destruction by the Mongols.{{cn|date=May 2022}}