Idrīs ʿImād al-Dīn - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Idrīs ʿImād al-Dīn b. al-Ḥasan al-Qurashī (d. 872/1468) was nineteenth in the chain of Ismāʿīlī-Fāṭimid-Ṭayyibī dāʿī s (agents of the religio-political mission called the daʿwa ), who were vicegerents of the Concealed Imāms (the full title is al-dāʿī al-muṭlaq , "the dāʿī with absolute authority"). An able religious, political, and military leader, he was also an eminent historian, poet, and theologian. 1. Life Idrīs was born in 794/1392 in the citadel of Shibām, in the Ḥarāz Mountain region of Yemen, into a