ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī al-Qurashī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Poonawala, Ismail K.
Leiden
Brill
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ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī al-Qurashī (d. 554/1159), the uncle and mentor of the fifth Mustaʿlī-Ṭayyibī dāʿī , ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar b. al-Walīd, came from the illustrious al-Walīd family that played an important role in the affairs of the Mustaʿlī-Ṭayyibī Ismāʿīlī daʿwa in Yemen after the decline of the al-Ḥāmidī family. His grandfather Ibrāhīm b. Abī Salama was a supporter of the founder of the Ṣulayḥid dynasty (r. 429-95/1037-1101), ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Ṣulayḥī, and