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KhojaPedia is an online encyclopedia encompassing socio-religious entity of the Khoja Shia Ithna ‘Ashari Muslim community. It is all about documenting and stabilizing the rich heritage of spiritual migration from one faith to other by maintaining the spirit of unity and organization.
It stands on the principle of unbiased and genuine research through reliable sources. One would feel the essence of faith, sacrifice, journey, dedication, culture, heritage, identity and unity in this project.
It is a step forward to impart the legacy of the ancestors to the youths of the community, specifically and in in general to the wider global community.
Predominantly it focuses on Shia Ithna ‘Ashari community but in case of relevancy it will consider other Khoja communities as well.
This place would serve as a virtual nation for Khojas appreciating the endeavors of ancestors, acknowledging current struggle and aiming for a converging vision for the upcoming generation.
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A voice from India being an appeal to the British Legislature by Khojhas of Bombay
Academy for learning Islam (ALI)
An account of the Khoja Sunnat Jamat
An Outline History of Khoja Shia Ithna Asheri in Eastern Africa
Bustani (Hayderi) vs Kuwwatul Islam (Husaini)
Bustani (Mosque Imambara) Mombasa (Now Hayderi Masjid)
Conseil Régional Des Khojas Shia Ithna- Asheri Jamates De L.Océan Indien (CROI)
Conversion to Shi‘ism in East Africa
Fidahussein Habib Rhemtulla Kara
Haiderbhai Kassamali Haji (WF president)
Hamid Ali Bhojani (Karachi Jamat President)
Hassan Bhimji and Hirji Bhimji
Hassanbhai gulam Husain (Mukhi)
Hussein Abdalla Jaffer Pardhan
Ibrahim Shahbaz
Ibrahim Varteji: Ibrahim Verteji from Itna Asheri converted. He wrote a book Vedic Islam. Adelji Dhanji wrote against him.
Ibrat-i Afza: Mirza Ahmad Wiqar Shirazi (1820-1881), the son of the famous poet Visal (d. 1262/1846), who stayed briefly with the Aga Khan in Bombay in 1266/1850 wrote this memories on behalf of Aga Khan
Imam Shahis: After the death of Pir Hasan Kabir al Din a section of the community seceded and established itself in Gujrat, becoming known as Imam Shahis. The majority continued to adhere to the authority of the Nizari Imams.
Imami family
Imamud din 1452-1513(grandson of Pir Sadruddin) well known as Imam Shah and the founder of the sect Imam Shahi
Imran Panjwani
India Federation
INISMA
Innes Boween
Insight
Iqbal Asaria
Iqbal Panju
Irshad Manji
Ismail b Jafar
Ismail Kherraj
Ismaili fidais and Ismaili soldiers
Ismailis
Ithna Ashari magazine
Ithnaasheri Gymkhana
Itrah TV & Radio
Jafar Ali Rehmatullah: Khoja qavm not itihas was written and published by
Jafar Asil
Jafar dhadu Badankshi case..Karachi and presence of Adelji Dhanji Kaba
Jafar Dharamsi
Jafar Lalji
Jafar Marashi (Zanzibar)
Jafar Rehmatullah: The history of Khojas…book
Jafarali Writer..1957 Masik monthly to 1984 it worked (1949-1950 (weekly)..all files with Mohsin Kawsari
Jaʿfari and Fatima school
Jaffer Dewji: grandson of Dewji Jamal
Jafferali Merali: great grandson of Dewji Kanji
Jaffery Institute of Professional Studies
Jail Road Kabrastan: Sunni Khoja Jmat Karbrastan
Jalal Shah Miskin Shah..two sons: Fida Husain and Raza Husain
Jalal shah Miskinshah in Mahuva…with takhaloos Masum (at the time of Marhum Haji Naji Saheb)
Jamal M moosa
Jamatʿ
Jamat Khanas,
Jamkhambalia : near Jamnagar
Javed Shroff
Jawad Khaki
Jhangi Shah
Jivraj Khatau
Jivraj Khatau,
Jivraj Khatau: There is an interesting incident that my father told me about Jivraj Khatau. One day Walji Bhanji was delayed in paying for goods bought from the German firm Messrs.Hansing & Co. He was sent a notice threatening court action. When the news reached Jivraj Khatau, he became very angry and told the firm’s German representative: “Walji Bhanji is my brother.” Later that day the notice was torn up by the German in Jivraj’s office. The Germans knew if they didn’t take the notice back all business dealings between Dharamsi Khatau & Co. and Messrs. Hansing & Co. would stop. You see, that’s how it used to be in the old days.
Jivraj Meghji
Jiwan Visram: He established a school-madrasa on the island in the 1890’s.
John Bull: I belong to no country. An article by Aga Khan 3rd
John Holister
John Kirk, the British Consul in Zanzibar,
John Outram
Justice Russell (1905)
Justice Sir Erskin Perry (1851): 1851 declaration of rights pronounced by Justice Sir Erskine Perry: All the things belongs to Jamat Khana and Khojas and NOT Agha Khan
Justice sir Joseph Arnold (1866)...…Khoja Panth Darpan 1st volume….He declared that Khojas are Shias and Not Sunnis
Kalbe Sadiq: Tavheed al Muslemeen
Kamadiya: the accountant of the community
Kamadiyanis
Kangan.. an appeal pg 94
Kangua .. an appeal pg 71
Kanji Asani: He arrived in Lamu in 1883 with his seven sons from Jamkhambalia. His 5 sons: Dewji Kanji, Daya Kanji, Panju Kanji, Samji Kanji, Ramji Kanji became Ithna-asheris.
Kanodar
Karachi Jamat
Karim Goolamali.. Secretary Khoja Reformers society in 1927 in Karachi. Wrote an open letter to Aga Khan. Karim Goolamali from Kharadhar, Karachi writes to Ali Soloman Khan, son of Agha Khan 3rd (27th November, 1932)
Kashmir and Sindh’s Luhana would be Khojas (Pyarli Hirani pg 27). This is mentioned in Ginans
Kashmiri Hindus’s one tribe named Chakk would be Khojas (Pyarli Hirani pg 27)
Kashmiri Khoja
Kassam Jaffer
Kassamali Chandoo
Kassmabhai Nanji Miyani … got injured from Ismailis in protecting the Masjid being constructed in Palagali
Kathiyawad
Kawkab e Khidmat
Kazim Kausari
Kenya
Khaki Padamsi (Kamadia)
Khalfan Ratansi… student of Mulla Qadar
Khan Mahomed Habibbhoy…..reform party
Khana Khojas,
Kharadahar
Khoja Biradari no Itihas: Pyarali Hirani
Khoja Case: (The Aga Khan Case):
Khoja Kawm ni Tawarikh…Adelji Dhanji Kaba
Khoja Masjid (Palagali)
Khoja Panth Darpan by Adalji Dhanji Kaba..1913 first edition (6 parts)
Khoja Prakash..weekly magazine by Adelji Dhanji Kaba
Khoja qavm not itihas was written and published by Jafar Ali Rehmatullah
Khoja Shia Ithna Asheri Orphanage : Sharifbhai Hasambhai
Khoja Shia Ithna Asheri Orphanage : Sharifbhai Hasambhai
KHOJA SHIA ITHNA-ASHERIS IN LAMU AND MOMBASA, 1870-1930
Khoja TV
Khoja Vrattant: Sachedina Najiyani
Khojas
Khojki script
Khuei
Khuni Khacha: Mahuva
Killu Khatav Nagarpoorwala from Katch…shaheed… student of Mulla Qadar
Kilwa: Kilwa na saval Javab
kitumba
KSI Jamat Mahuva
Kswahili
Kuchuk Shah
Kunumbi
Kutch
Kutch Federation
Kutchi
Kuwwatul Islam
Kuwwatul Islam Mosque
My grandfather Dharamsi Khatau was born in Nagalpur, Kutch in 1865. He had four brothers Jivraj Khatau, Manji Khatau, Kassim Khatau and Killu Khatau. Yes it’s the same “shaheed” Killu Khatau, the student of Mulla Qader Husayn who was martyred in Bombay. After the death of Killu in 1878, my grandfather left Bombay in 1880 with his father and mother along with the wife of Killu Khatau and Killu’s daughters. The journey to Mombasa by dhow took about a month. On the way Khatau Nanjani, my great-grandfather saddened by the death of Killu passed away. He was lowered into the sea with full honours.
The Plaintiff of the case were Daya Mahomad, Mahomad Saya, Peer Mahomad Kassim and Fazal Ghulam Hussain with H.M's Advocate General as nominal complainant. The Defendants were the Aga Khan I, Mukhi Alarakhia Sumar, Kamadia Khaki Padamsi, Mahomad Peer Bhai, Nur Mahomad Rajpal, Ali Bhai Jan, Habib Ibrahim, Muraj Premji, Dharamsi Punja, Aasu Gangji, Dossa Ladak, Nanji Alloo and Mahomad Yousuf Murgay, Qadi of the Mahomadans of the Town and island of Bombay.
Labbaik Magazine
Ladies Sports festival
Lalji Sajan…….Shaheed
Lallan Ali Dina (An appeal to Aga Khan Pg 67)
Lamu
Lamu and Aga Khani Ismailis: The Ismailis in Lamu in the 1930’s I remember are Velji Khatau, Mohan Amersi and his brother Remtulla (Remu) Amersi and Lalji Rajan.
Lamu and Arabs: Among Arabs I remember Shaykh Mohammed Maa’wy who had mango shambas, Salim Ahmed Basaida who worked with Smith Mackenzie, Hussein Shamuti, Abdalla Bathes and Mr. Yahya who was the only man in Lamu with a horse. He used to ride it on the main street along the sea shore.
Lamu and Bohras: There were many Bohras. T.M.Jeevanjee had the biggest dhow in Lamu called “Queen Mary”. The dhow sank on its first trip to Kismayu loaded with boriti. Other Bohras were Ibrahimji Moosajee, Amijee Ismailjee, Sadiqali Nurbhai, Gulamhussein Nurbhai, Pirbhai Nurbhai, Gulamhussein Daya, Hassanali Zahabu who used to sell gold, Ismail Kichwa, Alibhai Mauritiuswalla who had a big building in Lamu and Gulamhussein “Belwed” who was lame and moved about on one foot.
Lamu and Hindus: The old Hindus were Jevant Dossa, Vallabhdas Valji who was a Bhattia and his brother Morarji Valji. They would burn their dead in Kitau opposite Shela.
Lamu and Pardah:
Lamu and Parsis: The Parsis I remember in Lamu were the two sons of Cowasjee Nowrojee Dastur, Keki and his brother Homi.
Lamu and Sunnis: Among the Sunni community I remember Haji Mohammed Karim Khatri and his brother Haji Gulmohammed Karim Khatri. There were two barber shops in Lamu, the oldest being Sidik Ahmed’s and the other one was Hasham’s.
Lamu Imambara:
Lamu Jamat: The chairmen of the jamat in those days were Jaffer Panju, Hassan Walji, Molu Ramji and his brother Walji Ramji. Molu Ramji used to bring grain and other cargo from Mombasa and would export boriti (mangrove poles).
Lamu Mullas: local mullas were Mulla Jafferali Alibhai, Mulla Vallimohamed Merali Dewji, Mulla Mohammedali Nanji and Mulla Nanji Bhanji, who was a very old man at the time. The mullas would give waez and majlis in the imambara upstairs from the wooden minbar. Later on we used to have alims coming from outside Lamu. They would stay in the madrasa at the top which was converted into a guesthouse when there weren’t any children left.
Lavatia Khojas
Lawasani
Leadership Development Program
Leicter
Light magazine: Raza Datoo
Linda S Walbridge: The thread of Muawiya..The role of Khoja and Marjiyah
Lindi
Liyakatali Haji Bhai Bhimani
Liyaqat Takim
Luhana: Luhanasa re from Rathod family. Rathod were called Thakor and then it became Thakkar.
Majlises were held there in the small building (now in ruins) with barazas outside. This building was built during the time of Molu Ramji. The oldest graves you can see in the Lamu Chungani today are of Daya Kanji, Damji Ramji, Molu Ramji, Walji Ramji, Alibhai Panju and Jaffer Panju.
Mwalimu Yusufu and Mwalimu Faraj used to teach the students Quran in the madrasa.
The purdah was strictly enforced in those days in Lamu. There was a wall with a wooden door in the middle of the imambara that was always closed. Next to the door was a window like the one in our mosque in Zanzibar. During niyyaz which was always at lunch time if the ladies needed anything extra they used to tap the window’s sill.
There was no electricity in the mosque; we had to use kerosene lamps. The imambara was upstairs. There were two ways of going up to the imambara; one way was from the bazaar and this was used by the ladies and the other was from the sea shore which was used by gents. Two staircases were built on either side.
Macfarlance: In 1962 he fought in the court in the favour of the reformist saying that Khojas were Sunnis from the beginning and Aga Khan was the person who turned them to Shias and the court failed to give any verdict and eventually it went to Supreme Court…….Mr Veral was fighting in the favour of adherents of Aga Khan and his clients were Allarukhya Soomar and Khakee Pudumsey
Madagascar
Madagascar Territorial Council
Madrasa Party Mahuva Jamat
Madrasat al Zahra
Madrasatul waezeen
Magazine Bage Najat
Magazine Bahar e Majalis..Jalal Mishkin Shah
Magazine Rafiqul Mumenne (Talaja…Aladin Gulam Husain )
Magazine Rahe Najat
Magazines
Mahboob Rupani..AIM teacher
Mahdi Imani
Mahdi Mahila College
Mahdi School
Mahfil e Ali
Mahfile Bibi Fatema (Zanzibar)
Mahfile Murtaza
Mahila college…Bhavnagar
Mahim Khoja Jamat Khana: Habib Ibrahim and his 11 friends (Barabhais) started to pray in a Sunni manner at Mahim Jamat Khana
Mahmood Khalfan
Mahomad Peer Bhai
Mahomad Saya
Mahomad Yousuf Murgay
Mahuva
Mahuva Commission case
Malek Taj Begum
MARC
Marjaiyat,
Marriage contract
Masjid Nai (Zanzibar)
Masjid reza
Masjid Vali Asr
Master Gulam Husain Nawha Khan …Pakistan
Masum Somji
Masumbhai Bhojani
Matam e Bahrayni
Matam e Bushehri
Mauritius
Mawkib:
Mazagon
Mazhar Jumani
MCE,
Mehfile Muhibbane Husein:
Mehjabeen Daya
Mela of Jamnagar: 1905 In early twentieth century, around 1905/1910, Jetha Gokal called a great 'Mela' in Jamnagar and invited all Shia Ishanashri people because they had just changed their religion from Agakhani due to their studies and the efforts of Haji Ghulamali/Haji Naji (a prolific Shia writer and founder of Rahe Najat). In that 'Mela' Haji Naji was also invited. Jetha Gokal's wife's name was Mongi Bai who also became Shia Ishanashri but her parental family remained Agakhani.
Memmories of Mulla Qadar Husain..book
Mir of Talpore
Mirza Abul Kassim: The Aga Khan, in order to overcome this opposition, sent to Bombay as his agent, Mirza Abul Kassim, who was accompanied by the Aga Khan's mother, Bibi Sarcar Mata Salamat (1744-1832) in 1245/1829
Mirza Aghasi
Mirza Husain Mirza Khalil Tehrani
Miskin Shah
Mogadishu
Mohamed Khalfan
Mohamed P Hemani
Mohamedali Jinnah
Mohamedraza Ahmed Datoo
Mohamedraza Khamis
Mohammad Haider..article on Khoja Shia Ithan Asheri Community
Mohammad Khaku
Mohammed baqir sahib… Muballig in east Africa
Mohsin e Qawm: Ebrahim Husein Sheriff Dewji
Mohsin Mohamedhussein Rajabali Alidina
Mojiz Khamis
Mombasa
Momin Jamat
Morondava
Moshi
Moto punth … an appeal pg 71
MTP
Muallim family
Muchul Shah
Mugal Masjid
Muhamed Jaffaer Sheriff Dewji
Muhammad Khaki (1870-1956)
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Muhammad Ali R Merchant
Muhammad Bakir Khan (d. 1296/1879): brother of Aga Khan
Muhammad Naqvi
Muhammad Raza Habib Burundi Kamat president
Muhammad Razabhai Vakil (Raza Dost Vakil)
Muhammad Rizvi
Muhammad Shahi
Muhammad Shustari (editor of Savtaye Bilal)
MUHAMMADI WELFARE, AUSTRALIA
Muhsin Dharamsi
Muhsin Jafar
Muhsinali Haji Pyarali
Mujahid Sheriff
Mukhi: deputy of aga khan
Mukhiyanis
Mulla Anu
Mulla Anverali Valimohamed Walji
Mulla Asgar (Asghar Ali M.M Jaffer)
Mulla Musa Jaffer wrote against Ibrahim Varteji
Mulla Qadar
Multan
Mumbai
Munir Daya
Muraj Premji
Murawwij (Sayyed)
Murtaza Bharwani
Murtaza Lakha
Musafirkhana Ahmedabad
Musafirkhana Baghdad
Musafirkhana Basra
Musafirkhana Bhavnagar
Musafirkhana Dar es salam
Musafirkhana Jumalalaji
Musafirkhana Kanji Musafirkhana
Musafirkhana Karbala
Musafirkhana Mashhad
Musafirkhana Najaf
Musafirkhana Qum
Musafirkhana Tehran
Musafirkhanas
Musawat issue
Mushas e Hali al islam..Adelji Dhanji Kaba
Mustafa Anwer Alarakhia
One such meeting place was Mehfile Muhibbane Husein on Mtendeni run by the Ismailis (not yet converted to Ithnashris) where they were joined by the converts Ithnashris. Hence the name Mehfile Private given to it. There were also institutions like Nasser Nurmohamed dispensary which was meant for both the Khoja sects, Ithnashris as well as Ismailis. Conversion was a gradual process. The converts did not become Ithnashris at a go. It lasted from 1881 to 1930. Even thereafter, conversion to a small extent continued.
This year, The World Federation established an outpost (known in Arabic as a ‘mawkib’) on the Najaf to Karbala walk route. The out-post located at position number 1086, offered the following services: Rest and recuperation, Overnight sleeping facilities, Food and drink, Medical facilities
N.L.Parmar: the Hindu editor of a vernacular weekly who ventilated in his paper the grievances of the Khoja Community was stabbed by knives
Nadirbhai Pakistan
Nairobi
Najmul hasan, …muballig in east Africa
Nakuru Camp
Nandi
Nanji Abraham (Mahuva Jamat president in Mahuva Commission case)
Nanji Alloo
Narwhal (Punjab)
Nashir al Islam: Vakil of Sayyed ABul Hasan Isfahani. He wrote a letter to Abul Hasan Isfahani who is next Marja and he wrote Ayatullah Burujardi and this letter was basis of the Marjaiyat of Ayatullah Burujardi.
Nasimco
Nasir Dosani Ahmedabad
Nasir Husain …. muballig in east Africa
Nasir Mahdavi
Nasser Dewji : He supervised the construction and played a leading role in the collection efforts in construction of mosque Imambara in Lamu.
Nasser Virji…ithna asheri
Navazaly Molou
Navazaly Molou
Nayab Haider, A syed, Non Khoja Shia in Milton keynes
New Moon Association… an appeal pg 94
NGO
Nizaris
Noor e Hidayat…Alibhai Lkahani was published…Minarva printing press…(Adelji Dhanji Kaba
Noor Muhammad Amersey: leader of the rival khoja
Noor Muhammad Meghji…. student of Mulla Qadar
Nosybe
Nur Mahomad Rajpal
OBs position in WF
OIL Trust
PAKISTAN FEDERATION
PANJATAN SOCIETY, AUSTRALIA
Panje Bhai: Panje Bhai (one who shakes hand) to distinguish them from the Bar Bhai (twelve brethren) and originated the tradition of Panje Bhai Club in the community.
Paris
Parvez Merchant. Al Mahdi School
Pate Island
Peer Mahomad Kassim
Peer Mohammed Cassembhoy…reform party
Persian literature about Khojas
Petandias Khojas: Those who pay good fees on certain occasion.
Pir Mashayikh 2nd: wrote poems on both 4 Calphates and Shiah Imams
Pir Nur Satguru (Nuruddin): He was sent from Dailam by Hasan 2nd to Patan in Gujrat under Bhim Solanki 2nd (1179-1242)
Pir Sadrudin..great grandson of pir shams
Pir Shamsuddin
Pira Wali: Pira Vall, first president of Kuwwatul Islam Jamat of Zanzibar in 1882
Pirhai Jamat in Karachi
Pirs
poona
Portsmouth
President Ahmad Hassam
President Asgar Moledina
President Haidar Haji
President Hasnain Walji
President Mulla Asgar
Presidents of WF
Prince
Pune
Punjabi Khoja
Pyarali Hirani: Khoja Biradari no Itihas
Q Fatima,
Qabrastan
Qaimshahi
Qum Office
Quwwatul Islam Mosque
Rafiqul Mumenne (Talaja…Aladin Gulam Husain )
Rahe Najat
Raipur Jamat
Rajabali Ghulamhussain
Rajula
Ramadan Relief Fund,
Ramzan Akberali Asaria
Ramzanbhai Asaria
Ramzanbhai Nanji
Ramzanbhai Vankani(Surat)
Rassoul-oul-Akr’am Tabligh Centre in Antananarivo
Raza Ali Hirjee (Raza-Aly Hiridjee)
Raza Gulani
Razabhai Surti: He used to write Bhulayelao ni yad in Alamdar Masik
Rehmat Trust
Relentless Endeavours – A biographical review of the life and times of Mulla Asgharali M. M. Jaffer
Report on a Mission to Yarkand, Calcutta, 1875
Reunion
Risalae Ahlebait..monthly magazine
Roshan Fazal
Russell
RVS Radio Madagascar
Saberi
Sachedina Najiyani: He was assistant commissioner of Kutch. His book Khoja Vrattant was published by Adelji Dhanji Kaba in 1918.
Sadak Jivraj Meghji
Sadat Colony (Mahuva)
Sadiq Hasan Sahab
Sadiq Merchant …AIM
Sadique Jaffer
Sadri.. an appeal pg 93
Saeed Akhtar Rizvi
Saeeda Jiwa
Safdar Karmali
Safdar Razi
Safder Jaffer
Sahdev (Name of Pir Sadruddin and the other name was Harichand)
Sajan Meharali: When the Aga Khan was yet in Calcutta, a fresh litigatiion, known as Sajan Mehr Ali Case was carried in 1263/1847, in which the question of the rights of female inheritance among the Ismailis was brought before the Supreme Court of Bombay.
Sajjad Rashid…Somalia
Sajjad Rizvi
Sajjadiya Trust
Salim vice president Burundi Jamat
Salsabil
Samachar (Gujrati and English Magazine)
Saniwarias… an appeal pg 70
Sar Sambar.. an appeal pg 94
Sarbandias
Sarjan Mir Ali’s case
Sarkari daftar: account book
Sarv-i Jahan Begum
Satpanth
Savtaye Bilal : Muhammad Shustari (editor of Savtaye Bilal)
Seceders and Ismailis an appeal pg 98
Secretary generals
Seyyid Abdulhusein Marashi: first resident alim of Zanzibar Kuwwatul Islam Jamat
Seyyid Rhemtulla : He was appointed to teach the Quran and the Seyyid was paid fifteen rupees a month for his services. However after a year the madrasa was stopped and religious activities were shifted to the house of Mohammed Baqir, a Persian gentleman living in Mombasa. Eventually the leaders of the new Jamat decided to acquire their own cemetery and build a new mosque-imambara.
Shabbar Dhalla
Shabbir Mismai
Shabbir Mukadam
Shabbir Najafi
Shabeeb Rizvi..AIM
Shabir Karim
Shafi Thanawala (Khoja Sunnat Jamat President)
Shah Abbas
Shah Bibi
Shah Rukh Shah
Shahzadi Begum
Shakiti Marg
Shame E Hayat (Muallim Hasan Jafar’s father)
Shame e Hidayat, A text book in Gujarati language by Haji Muhamed Jaffaer Sheriff Dewji of Mombasa in 1939
Shamsuddin Shah
Shan e Abbas Hassam
Share Kuctch
Sharif Gangji
Sharif Noormohammaed
Shihab Rattansi
Shiraz (Khojas in Shiraz)
Shudras
Shustari,
Sibtain Panjwani
Sibtein Asaria
Sind
Sindhi
Sindhi Khoja
Sir John Outram: An appeal to Agha Khan pg 3
Sir Sayyed Ahmad Khan na lekho…Adelji Dhanji Kaba
Sistani
Siyu
Soldier Bazar
Somalia
South Africa
South Asia
Spellman (IIS)………..q News…Ayatullah Khoe photo
Stanmore Jamat
Stanmore WF
Sufro… an appeal pg 93
Suhrawardi Sufi order: Pir Hasan’s affiliation with this order
Sukarwadis..an appeal pg 70
Sulayhids
Sultan Muhammad Shah
Sultan Somjee
Sumra dynasty
Sunni Khojas
Sunni Khojas are known as Barabhai Khojas
Sweden
Sweden Camp
Syria (IIPS)
Tahqiq Husain (Maulana)
Tahrif e Quran…an appeal pg 85
Talaja
tanganyika
Tantanpura Masjid: Sunni Khojas
Taqi Hidayati
Thakkar
Thakor
Thal… an appeal pg 93
The Aga Khan Case: (Khoja Case)
The Endangered Species – Evolution of the Khoja Shia Ithna-Asheri Muslim Community, their origin, current state and future challenges
The Origin of the Khojahs and their Religious Life Today: PhD thesis Al Qadi: Published in Untersuch ; DETAILS: "The Origin of the Khojahs and their Religious Life Today," Ph.D. diss., Universit"t Bonn, 1936. Published in Untersuch, zur Allgemeinen Religionsgeschichte, vol. 8 (Bonn, 1936). 190 pp.
The Sowing and Reaping of Destiny – With ABCD Syndrome: Wither Khoja? (2008)
The Isma'ilis: Their History and Doctrines,, Farhad Daftary
Thomas Douglas Forsyth
Through open doors (A view of Asian Cultures in Kenya) by Cynthia Salvadoru edited by Andrew Fedders
Tony Blair
Toronto Jamat
Trusts
Tulear
Ucch, South of Multan: Grave of Pir Sadr al Din
Uganda Exodus in 1972
University of Winchester and MTP
Usama Abdulghani
Vartej
Varuses
VazirAli F Vazir Advocate: He stayed in Mahuva for 20 years. Samiksha in the Khoja Biradari no itihas
Vedic Islam: Ibrahim Varteji
Vencouver Jamat
Vigils: An appeal pg 95
Waheeda Rahim
Waljee Hirjee: Khoja settlement in Mombasa dates to 1867 when Waljee Hirjee a prominent Khoja Ismaili merchant of Zanzibar opened a shop at the Old Port.
Walji Bhanji: Walji Bhanji was born in Kutch in 1869. He had two brothers Khaku Bhanji and Karim Bhanji. After Khaku’s death, Walji Bhanji married his brother’s wife Kaiserbai and raised his brother’s children Suleman Khaku and Bachibai. Kaiserbai bore him two sons Alibhai and Valimohammed. He stayed with Ladha Kanji and opened a small shop selling matches and tobacco. In 1899 he decided to go to Nairobi. He travelled by train to Voi and then by donkey to Nairobi. Very quickly Walji Bhanji was able to establish a successful import-export firm. The firm grew to almost sixty branches across East Africa. There was even a branch in Nakuru opened in 1902 and supervised by Karim Bux.
Walji Bhanji’s luck ran out. The Great Depression hit Africa – and Walji Bhanji lost a lot of currency, German marks. Smith Mackenzie advanced him a large sum to purchase the cotton crop. Locusts devoured the entire crop. In 1932 he was declared bankrupt. All Walji Bhanji’s properties were put up for sale. Datoo came to auction them. For three days after the auction Walji Bhanji never left the house, his big house by the Old Port. On the third day, there in that house he died.
There was a time when Walji Bhanji was so famous amongst the Africans that they were singing songs about him as they pushed the handcarts bringing cotton and ivory to the depots. At first the family lived in Walji Bhanji’s buildings on Old Killindini Rd but later Walji Bhanji acquired the big house (Leven House) near the stairs by the Old Port and the whole family lived there. The ground floor was the head office with all the accountants and everybody. On the top floor Suleman lived with his family.
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