The Ismaili Imamat is a hereditary office in succession from the first Imam, Hazrat Ali, the cousin and son-in-law of Prophet Muhammad, who was married to Hazrat BibiA word of East Turkish origin which means old mother or a grandmother. It is also used in Persian and Urdu in the sense of “woman of the house”, as… Fatimat-az-Zahra, the Prophet’s daughter and only surviving child.
