Syedna Yusuf Najmuddin Bin Syedna Zakiuddin (died: 18 Jumadil Akhir 1213 AH

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/ 1799 AD), Surat

Surat

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, India

India

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) was the 42 nd Da'i al-Mutlaq

Da'i al-Mutlaq

The term Dāʻī al-Mutlaq literally means "the absolute or unrestricted missionary". In Ismā'īlī Islām, the term dāʻī has been used to refer to important religious leaders other than the hereditary Imāms, and the Daʻwa or "Mission" is a clerical-style organisation. "The Daʻwa" was a term for the...

(Absolute Missionary) of the Dawoodi Bohra

Dawoodi Bohra

Dawoodi Bohra is a subsect of Ismāʿīlī Shīʿa Islām. While the Dawoodi Bohra is based in India, their belief system originates in Yemen, where it evolved from the Fatimid Caliphate and where they were persecuted due to their differences from mainstream Sunni Islam...

 sect of Musta‘lī

Mustaali

The Musta‘lī Ismā'īlī Muslims are so named because they accept Al-Musta'li as the nineteenth Fatimid caliph and legitimate successor to his father, al-Mustansir...

 Islam

Islam

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. He succeeded the 41 st Dai Syedna Abduttayyeb Zakiuddin

Syedna Abduttayyeb Zakiuddin

Syedna Abduttayyeb Zakiuddin , Ahmedabad, India) was the 29 th Da'i al-Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohra sect of Musta‘lī Islam. He succeeded , the 28 th Dai Syedna Sheikh Aadam Safiuddin to the religious post.He was the son of 27th Dai Syedna Dawood Bin Qutubshah...

 Bin Syedna Badruddin, to the religious post.

Syedna Yusuf Najmuddin became Da'i al-Mutlaq in 1200AH /1787AD. His period of Dawat was from 1200-1213 AH (1787-1799 AD). In his period Dawat office shifted from Jamnagar

Jamnagar

Jamnagar is a city and a municipal corporation in Jamnagar district in the Indian state of Gujarat. The city was built up substantially by Maharaja Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji in the 1920s, when the district was known as Nawanagar. The district lies just to the south of the Gulf of Kutch and is...

 to Surat

Surat

Surat , also known as Suryapur, is the commercial capital city of the Indian state of Gujarat. Surat is India's Eighth most populous city and Ninth-most populous urban agglomeration. It is also administrative capital of Surat district and one of the fastest growing cities in India. The city proper...

.

See also

• Dawoodi Bohras
• Ismaili
  Ismaili
  ' is a branch of Shia Islam. It is the second largest branch of Shia Islam, after the Twelvers...
  
  
• Shia
• Islam
  Islam
  Islam . The most common are and .   : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
  
  
• Mustali
• Taiyabi
  Taiyabi
  Tayyibi is a branch of Mustaali Ismailism that split with the Fatimid supporting Hafizi branch by believing Taiyab abi al-Qasim was the rightful Imam. They are the surviving branch of the Mustaali and have split into Dawoodi Bohra, Sulaimani Bohra, and Alavi Bohra.Upon the death of the 20th Imam...