Lit. ‘licentiate,’; a rank in the Fatimid Ismaili daʿwa structure; an assistant to the regional dāʿī; originally divided into two ranks: al-maʾdhūn al-muṭlaq and al-maʾdhūn al-maḥdūd, or which the latter became known as al-mukāsir. Often, the al-maʾdhūn al-muṭlaq became a dāʿī himself and was authorised as the chief licentiate to administer the oath of initiation and rules and policies of the daʿwa to initiates.
