Qualla: Anjudan https://qualla.com/anjudan en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:31 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Anjudan https://qualla.com/anjudan Anjudan: Introduction https://qualla.com/anjudan/ Tamerlane's soldiers could not find a way into the tunnels beneath the village, so they cut into an irrigation channel overhead and flooded them. It was May 1393, and the conqueror who styled himself an executor of divine will had turned his army on a settlement of fewer than a thousand people in the hills of central Iran. The village was Anjudan. It survived. More than six centuries later, it still stands in Markazi province with a population of 446, its name attached to an entire era of Ismaili history -- a period scholars call the Anjudan Revival, when a persecuted faith found shelter in a place too small for most maps to notice.

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/n/5/9/anjudan-wp/tn59-anjudan-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Anjudan: Refuge at the Crossroads https://qualla.com/anjudan/ Anjudan sits in Arak County, near the Shi'i holy centers of Qom and Kashan. Its appeal to the Nizari Ismaili Imamate in the late 14th century was partly geographic: it was far from the major centers of Sunni power in Tabriz and Herat, yet close enough to important Shi'i networks ...

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/n/5/9/anjudan-wp/tn59-anjudan-refuge-at-the-crossroads.mp3 0:06 2 full Anjudan: The Conqueror and the Tunnels https://qualla.com/anjudan/ When Timur's army reached Anjudan in May 1393, the village was already prepared. Residents had fortified their settlement and built a network of underground tunnels for escape and defense. The Persian historian Khwandamir records that the Ismaili community had been growing politi...

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/n/5/9/anjudan-wp/tn59-anjudan-the-conqueror-and-the-tunnels.mp3 0:06 3 full Anjudan: The Servant of Peace https://qualla.com/anjudan/ The Imams who led the community from Anjudan left behind writings that reveal a tradition balancing political survival with spiritual depth. Abd al-Salam Shah, who led the Imamate from 1480 to roughly 1493, received his title -- meaning "servant of peace" -- from his father, Imam...

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/n/5/9/anjudan-wp/tn59-anjudan-the-servant-of-peace.mp3 0:06 4 full Anjudan: Legacy in a Small Place https://qualla.com/anjudan/ The Anjudan period produced more than theological texts. The poet Da'i Anjudani, likely a high-ranking member of the Ismaili hierarchy, and the scholar Mawlana Malik Tayfur Anjudani were among the literary figures who flourished during this revival. The fortress of Nurabad near t...

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