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Article: The End of Taqiyya: Reaffirming the Religious Identity of Ismailis in Shughnan, Badakhshan - Political Implications for Afghanistan.
- Article from:
- Middle Eastern Studies
- Article date:
- July 1, 1998
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Ismailis constitute a small religious minority community in the Badakhshan province of Afghanistan. They reside primarily in Rushan, Shughnan, Ishkashim, Wakhan, Zibak and Kuran-Munjan regions. The inhabitants of these regions are predominantly Tajik in their ethnicity and Ismaili in their religious orientation. Ismailis advocated millenarianism during the Alamut period under the astute leadership of Hasan al-Sabbah and his successors in Persia (Iran) and became &politicized after the collapse of the Ismaili Centre, or the Alamut, before the Mongol invasion in 1257. After that they remained subservient to concerned local and regional authorities. Governments in ...
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