Abu Dharr Ali

Abū Dharr ʿAlī (Arabic: أبو ذر علي), also known by the regnal name of Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad (Arabic: نور الدين محمد), was the 35th imam of the Qasim-Shahi branch of the Nizari Isma'ili community.

He succeeded his father, al-Mustansir Billah III, upon his death in 1498, at Anjudan.^[1] He apparently married a sister or daughter of the Safavid shah of Persia, Tahmasp I.^[1] Despite this close connection to the rulers of Persia however, the Safavids began to persecute all other varieties of Shi'ism that rivalled their own Twelver creed, and Tahmasp launched a persecution of the Nizaris during the reign of Abu Dharr Ali's son and successor, Murad Mirza.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Daftary 2007, p. 435.
^ Daftary 2007, pp. 435–436.

Sources

Daftary, Farhad (2007). The Ismāʿı̄lı̄s: Their History and Doctrines (Second ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-61636-2.

Regnal titles
Abu Dharr Ali of the Ahl al-Bayt Banu Hashim Clan of the Banu Quraish Born: ? C.E Died: 1509 C.E.
Shia Islam titles
Preceded by Al-Mustansir Billah III	35th Imam of Nizari Isma'ilism (Qasim-Shahi line) 1498–unknown	Succeeded by Murad Mirza