ʿAlī b. al-Walīd - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Poonawala, Ismail K.
Leiden
Brill
(889 words)
ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar b. Ibrāhīm b. Abī Salama b. al-Walīd al-ʿAbshamī al-Qurashī (d. 612/1215) was the mentor of ʿAlī b. Ḥātim al-Ḥāmidī, whom he succeeded as the fifth dāʿī muṭlaq of the Mustaʿlī-Ṭayyibī Ismāʿīlīs in Yemen on Saturday 25 Dhū l-Qaʿda 605/31 May 1209. He came from the family of Banū l-Walīd al-Anf that traced its genealogy back to the Quraysh through ʿAbd Manāf b. Quṣayy. His great-grandfather Ibrāhīm b. Abī Salama, known as Ibrāhīm al-Anf (