Gharib Mirza

ʿAbbās Shāh (Arabic: عباس شاه; died August 1498), also known as Gharīb Mīrzā (Arabic: غريب ميرزا) and with the regnal name of al-Mustanṣir Billāh III (Arabic: المستنصر بالله الثالث), was the 34th imam of the Qasim-Shahi branch of the Nizari Isma'ili community.

Mausoleum of al-Mustansir III, known locally as the tomb of Shah Gharib, Anjudan[1]

He succeeded his father, Abd al-Salam Shah, upon his death in 1493–4, at Anjudan. According to oral Nizari tradition, he died in 1496–7, but the inscription in his mausoleum gives the date as August 1498.[1] According to Nizari tradition, he was succeeded by his son Abu Dharr Ali, known as Nur al-Din.[2]

References
  1. Daftary 2007, p. 423.
  2. Daftary 2007, pp. 425, 435.

Sources
  • Daftary, Farhad (2007). The Ismāʿı̄lı̄s: Their History and Doctrines (Second ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-61636-2.
  • Virani, Shafique N. The Ismailis in the Middle Ages. A History of Survival, A Search for Salvation. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-531173-0.


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