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===Sulaymani=== {{Main|Sulaymani}} Founded in 1592, the [[Sulaymani]] are mostly concentrated in [[Yemen]] but are also found in [[Pakistan]] and [[India]]. The denomination is named after its 27th Daʻī, [[Sulayman bin Hassan]]. They are referred to and prefer to be referred to as Ahle-Haq Ismaʻilis and Sulaymanis and not with the Bohras suffix.{{cn|date=May 2022}} The total number of Sulaymanis currently are around 300,000, mainly living in the eastern district of [[Jabal Haraz]] in northwest [[Yemen]] and in [[Najran]], [[Saudi Arabia]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/world/middleeast/21saudi.html |title=Muslim Sect Sees Struggle Through Christian Lens |date=21 October 2010 |work=The New York Times}}</ref> Beside the [[Banu Yam]] of Najran, the Sulaymanis are in Haraz, among the inhabitants of the Jabal Maghariba and in Hawzan, Lahab and Attara, as well as in the district of Hamadan and in the vicinity of Yarim.{{cn|date=May 2022}} In India there are between 3000 and 5000 Sulaymanis living mainly in [[Vadodara]], [[Hyderabad]], [[Mumbai]] and [[Surat]]. In [[Punjab, Pakistan]], there is a well-established Sulaymani community in Sind. Some ten thousand Sulaymanis live in rural areas of Punjab known to the Sulaymani as ''Jazeera-e Sind''; these Sulaymani communities have been in the Jazeera-e Sind from the time of Fatimid Imam-Caliph [[al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah]] when he sent his Daʻīs to Jazeera-e Sind.{{cn|date=May 2022}} There are also some 900–1000 Sulaymanis mainly from South Asia scattered around the world, in the Persian Gulf States, [[United States]], [[Canada]], [[Thailand]], [[Australia]], [[Japan]] and the [[United Kingdom]].{{cn|date=May 2022}}
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