Ismaili.NET - Heritage F.I.E.L.D.Our 34th Holy Imam Mowlana Gharib Mirza
Our 34th Holy Imam Gharib Mirza ascended to the Masnad of Imamat in A.H. 899. He was also known as Hazrat Abbas according to the book "Gulzar-e-Shamsh". Imam Gharib Mirza was born in Shaher-e-Babak but spent most of his life in Anjudan which was about 34 miles from Mahelat. Anjudan was mainly a farming area and most Ismailis were in agriculture work. Mowlana Imam Gharib Mirza reigned as Imam for 3 years and passed away in 902 A.H.
GHARIB MIRZA (899-902/1493-1496), 34TH IMAM
"Abbas Shah, surnamed Shah Gharib or Gharib Mirza, was also known as Gharibu'l-lah and Mustansir billah III, and assumed the Imamate in 899/1493. Imam Gharib Mirza seems to have left Shahr-i Babak few months after assuming Imamate. He seems to have repaired for about one year out of Shahr-i Babak, leaving behind his hujjat, called Badiuddin Khwaja Kassim, and at length settled down in Anjudan, most possibly in 900/1494. Pir Shihabuddin Shah (d. 1884) also writes in his Khitabat-i Aliyya (pp.
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