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Police launch investigation into burning of Bohra Shia building in Karak - Ammon News

azizhp — Mon, 06 May 2013 05:27:46 PDT

Jordanian authorities launched an investigation into an incident earlier on Friday when local residents in the Southern Mazar region set ablaze a building that serves as a lodge for Dawoodi Bohra Shiite Muslims visiting the Kingdom.

Muslim leader celebrates 102nd birthday - Pocono Record

azizhp — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 06:01:46 PDT

His Holiness Dr. Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, spiritual leader of Dawoodi Bohras, is celebrating his 102nd birthday today with his congregation in East Stroudsburg. He will mark his 50th year as the leader of the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community.

Dawoodi Bohras take up cleanliness campaign - The Times of India

azizhp — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:31:29 PST

AHMEDABAD: The community members of the Dawoodi Bohra Jamaat have taken up a cleanliness drive in the city. According to a press release, inspired by their religious head Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, the drive will target at four areas - personal cleanliness, cleanliness of homes, work places and of mosques and public places.

Attacks on Bohra community: Violence reaches Hyderabad with 11 dead in 72 hours – The Express Tribune

azizhp — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 07:01:32 PST

The city’s peaceful Dawoodi Bohra community was forced to visit the graveyard a second time in three days as it buried two of its members on Wednesday.

In Karachi, assassins out to ‘silence’ people – The Express Tribune

azizhp — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 07:00:42 PST

armed men shot and killed a Dawoodi Bohra community Ali Akbar while he was en route a wedding reception with his wife. On October 31, Shabbir Saifuddin of the Bohra community was shot dead in North Nazimabad.

Dawoodi Bohra leader gives Dh21m to community | GulfNews.com

azizhp — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 06:59:52 PST

The revered leader of the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim Community on Friday announced that a gift of Dh21 million will be granted to members of the community in the form of “Qardhan Hasanah” or interest-free loans.

Entrepreneur tries to get Yemenis buzzing about coffee, not qat - CSMonitor.com

azizhp — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 05:00:42 PDT

Indian businessman Shabbir Ezzi, a member of a Shiite sect with roots in Yemen, hopes to persuade farmers to give up growing qat – "a Class-A drug," according to him – and give coffee a try instead.

(Photo gallery) India's Bohra Muslims in Yemen - WSJ.com

azizhp — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 08:51:14 PDT

In recent decades, Dawoodi Bohra Muslims based in South Asia have come to Yemen to visit a holy shrine. Many of them have stayed on, sharing their culture with local Bohras. In pictures.

Bohra Muslims from India Share Their Culture in Yemen - India Real Time - WSJ

azizhp — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:32:08 PDT

Seven-thousand feet up, a white mosque nests on the edge of a cliff in the Haraz Mountains, two hours from the capital of Sanaa, in northwest Yemen. Syedna Hatim, the third dai—or spiritual leader—of the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim sect is said to have built this space where he ultimately died, eight hundred years ago.

Bomb blasts: In Hyderi, fear looms over Bohra jamaat – The Express Tribune

azizhp — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:15:22 PDT

The normally hustling bustling neighbourhood was deserted on Wednesday, a day after the twin blasts which left eight people dead and several more injured. With the nearby Dolmen Mall shut for the day, shopkeepers on the Syedna Burhanuddin Road, where the explosives went off, also pulled down their shutters.