Editing Ismailism (section)

===Aftermath===
After the fall of the Fatimid Caliphate and its bases in Iran and Syria, the three currently living branches of Isma'ili generally developed geographically isolated from each other, with the exception of [[Syria]] (which has both Druze and Nizari) and [[Pakistan]] and the rest of South Asia (which had both Mustaali and Nizari).{{cn|date=May 2022}}

The [[Musta'li]] progressed mainly under the Isma'ili-adhering Yemeni ruling class well into the 12th century, until the fall of the last [[Sulayhid dynasty]], [[Hamdanids (Yemen)]] and [[Zurayids]] [[rump state]] in 1197 AD, then they shifted their da'wat to India under the Da'i al-Mutlaq, working on behalf of their last Imam, Taiyyab, and are known as Bohra. From India, various groups spread mainly to south Asia and eventually to the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and America.{{cn|date=May 2022}}

The [[Nizari]] have maintained large populations in [[Syria]], [[Uzbekistan]], [[Tajikistan]], [[Afghanistan]], [[Pakistan]], [[India]], and they have smaller populations in [[China]] and [[Iran]]. This community is the only one with a living Imam, whose title is the [[Aga Khan]]. [[Badakhshan]], which includes parts of northeastern [[Afghanistan]] and southeastern [[Tajikistan]], is the only part of the world where Ismailis make up the majority of the population.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.30-days.net/muslims/muslims-in/asia-south-central/badakshan-ismaili/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110303042803/http://www.30-days.net/muslims/muslims-in/asia-south-central/badakshan-ismaili/|title=Ismaili Muslims in the remote Pamir mountains|archive-date=3 March 2011}}</ref> This is due to Isma'ili scholar [[Nasir Khusraw]], who spent as a hermit the last decades of his life in Badakhshan, gathering a considerable number of devoted adherents, who have handed down his doctrines to succeeding generations.<ref name=EB1911>{{EB1911 |wstitle=Nāsir Khosrau |volume=19 |page=248 |first=Karl Hermann |last=Ethé |inline=1}}</ref>

The [[Druze]] mainly settled in Syria and [[Lebanon]] and developed a community based upon the principles of [[reincarnation]] through their own descendants. Their leadership is based on community scholars, who are the only individuals allowed to read their holy texts. There is controversy over whether this group falls under the classification of Isma'ilism or Islam because of its unique beliefs.{{cn|date=May 2022}}

The [[Tajiks in China|Tajiks of Xinjiang]], being Isma'ili, were not subjected to being [[slavery in China|enslaved in China]] by Sunni Muslim Turkic peoples because the two peoples did not share a common geographical region.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NKCU3BdeBbEC&pg=PA20 |title=Situating the Uyghurs between China and Central Asia |author=Ildikó Bellér-Hann |year=2007 |publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd |isbn=978-0-7546-7041-4 |page=20 |access-date=2010-07-30}}</ref> The [[Burusho people]] of [[Pakistan]] are also Nizaris. However, due to their isolation from the rest of the world, Islam reached the Hunza about 350 years ago. Ismailism has been practiced by the Hunza for the last 300 years. The Hunza have been ruled by the same family of kings for over 900 years. They were called Kanjuts. Sunni Islam never took root in this part of central Asia so even now, there are less than a few dozen Sunnis living among the Hunza.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JxwPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA56 |title=Report of a mission to Yarkund in 1873, under command of Sir T. D. Forsyth: with historical and geographical information regarding the possessions of the ameer of Yarkund |author=[[Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth]] |year=1875 |publisher=Printed at the Foreign department press |page=56 |access-date=2011-01-23}}</ref>