The Bohras are a Shīʿī Muslim community of the Ṭayyibī Mustaʿlī branch of the Ismāʿīlīs, who trace their religious and literary heritage to the Fāṭimid caliph- imām s of North Africa and Egypt. Mostly indigenous Indians, their ancestors converted to Islam at the hands of Fāṭimid missionaries in the latter half of the fifth/eleventh century. For the purposes of this article, "Bohras" refers to the majority Dāʾūdī branch of the Ṭayyibī Bohras, which has its headquarters in India and numbers approximately a million members worldwide. The ʿAlawī and Sulaymānī