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 "id": "concept/dai-al-duat",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "dai-al-duat",
 "label": {
  "ar": "داعي الدعاة",
  "en": "Da'i al-Du'at — the chief missionary"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "داعي الدعاة موظف كبير أُسندت إليه رياسة الدعوة الإسماعيلية في عهد الفاطميين، كان يلي قاضي القضاة في الرتبة ويتزيا بزيه، وكثيراً ما جُمعت الوظيفتان في رجل واحد؛ ويساعده في نشر التعاليم اثنا عشر نقيباً وله نواب ينوبون عنه في البلاد فيكون الصلة بين الخليفة وأتباعه، ومن أعماله أخذ العهد على المريدين مباشرة أو بواسطة نوابه والإشراف على المحاضرات التي تلقى بمجلس الدعوة — وكانت تعرض على الخليفة لإقرارها قبل إلقائها — وجمع النجوى من المؤمنين والمؤمنات وكانت ثلاثة دراهم وثلثاً، ومن دفع ثلاثة وثلاثين ديناراً أعطي شارة فاطمية رقعة مذيلة بتوقيع الخليفة.",
  "en": "The da'i al-du'at, the great official to whom the headship of the Ismaili da'wa was entrusted under the Fatimids: ranking just below the qadi al-qudat and wearing his dress, the two offices often held by one man. Twelve nuqaba' assisted him in spreading the doctrine and deputies represented him in the provinces — the link between caliph and adherents — administering the oath to initiates directly or by proxy and overseeing the lectures delivered in the majlis al-da'wa, which were submitted to the caliph for approval before being taught; he also collected the najwa of 'believing men and women' at three and a third dirhams, and whoever paid thirty-three dinars received a Fatimid chit bearing the caliph's signature."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people",
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "egypt-nile",
  "maghreb"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/buyid-seljuk-fatimid-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "political",
  "sources": [
   "source/tarikh-islam-hasan-ibrahim"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "حسن إبراهيم حسن، تاريخ الإسلام ج4 — قاضي القضاة وداعي الدعاة، ص405-406",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "model": "swe-2-high",
   "run": "lib-hasanibrahim-15"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High); extracted from Hasan Ibrahim Tarikh al-Islam via Apple Vision OCR"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "داعي الدعاة منصب كبير أُسندت إليه رياسة الدعوة الإسماعيلية في عهد [[polity/fatimid-caliphate|الفاطميين]]. {cite:tarikh-islam-hasan-ibrahim p.405-406}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المنصب",
     "markdown": "يذكر حسن إبراهيم حسن أنه كان يلي قاضي القضاة في الرتبة ويتزيا بزيه، وأن الوظيفتين كثيراً ما جُمعتا في رجل واحد. {cite:tarikh-islam-hasan-ibrahim p.405-406}\n\nيعاونه اثنا عشر نقيباً في نشر التعاليم، وله نواب في البلاد، فهو الصلة بين الخليفة وأتباعه في [[group/ismaili-dawa|الدعوة الإسماعيلية]]. {cite:tarikh-islam-hasan-ibrahim p.405-406}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "أعماله",
     "markdown": "- أخذ العهد على المريدين، مباشرة أو بواسطة نوابه.\n- الإشراف على المحاضرات في مجلس الدعوة، وكانت تُعرض على الخليفة قبل إلقائها.\n- جمع النجوى من المؤمنين والمؤمنات، وقدرها ثلاثة دراهم وثلث. ومن دفع ثلاثة وثلاثين ديناراً أُعطي شارة فاطمية، وهي رقعة عليها توقيع الخليفة.\n\n{cite:tarikh-islam-hasan-ibrahim p.405-406}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/dai-al-duat",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "*Dai al-duat* (\"chief of the missionaries\") was a senior office, entrusted with the leadership of the Ismaili mission under the [[polity/fatimid-caliphate|Fatimids]]. {cite:tarikh-islam-hasan-ibrahim p.405-406}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The office",
     "markdown": "Hasan Ibrahim Hasan notes that it ranked just below the chief judge (*qadi al-qudat*) and wore his dress, and that the two offices were often combined in one man. {cite:tarikh-islam-hasan-ibrahim p.405-406}\n\nTwelve *naqibs* assisted him in spreading the teachings, and he had deputies in the lands. He was thus the link between the caliph and his followers in the [[group/ismaili-dawa|Ismaili mission]]. {cite:tarikh-islam-hasan-ibrahim p.405-406}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "His duties",
     "markdown": "- Taking the oath of allegiance from novices, directly or through his deputies.\n- Supervising the lectures in the assembly of the mission, which were presented to the caliph before they were delivered.\n- Collecting the contributions (*najwa*) from the believing men and women, set at three dirhams and a third. Whoever paid thirty-three dinars was given a Fatimid badge, which was a slip bearing the caliph's signature.\n\n{cite:tarikh-islam-hasan-ibrahim p.405-406}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/dai-al-duat",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 4,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "polity/fatimid-caliphate",
   "type": "related_to",
   "inverse": false,
   "note": "منصب فاطمي",
   "sources": [
    "source/tarikh-islam-hasan-ibrahim"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "group/ismaili-dawa",
   "type": "related_to",
   "inverse": false,
   "note": "رياسة الدعوة الإسماعيلية",
   "sources": [
    "source/tarikh-islam-hasan-ibrahim"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "building/al-azhar",
  "building/dar-al-hikma-cairo",
  "building/khizanat-al-suruj",
  "concept/darajat-al-dawa-al-nizariyya",
  "polity/abbasid-caliphate",
  "group/ismaili-dawa",
  "polity/fatimid-caliphate"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}