By Dr Farhad Daftary
A learned theologian, poet, stylist and an accomplished diplomat, Shah Tahir Husayni was also the most famous Imam of the Muhammad-Shahi branch of Nizari Ismailism. He was born in the final decades of the 9th AH/ 15th CE century in the village of Khund, near Qazwin in northern Persia, where his forefathers known locally as the Khundi
More: The Institute of Ismaili Studies – Husayni, Shah Tahir b. Radi al-Din (d. 956 AH/ 1549 CE).
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