The traditional leader of a modern community

Edit The Times of India 19 Jan 2014
SURAT. The 53rd Dai ul Mutlaq ali Qadar Syedna Mufaddal Bhaisaheb Saifuddin (TUS), the 70-year-old son of the late spiritual leader 52nd Dai Dr Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin shall now lead the progressive community of the Dawoodi Bohras ... They have not had any manifest Imam since the 1130s and in his absence have been led by Dai's with absolute authority, retaining many traditions of the Ismailis from the Fatimid period ... ....

The True History of Merlin the Magician by Anne Lawrence-Mathers – review

Edit The Guardian 11 Dec 2013
It turns out that Merlin isn't real. He is, in fact, a big fat hoax, made up by a writer who had run out of things to say and was getting desperate. "Geoffrey of Monmouth" sounds as if he should be a bank manager of scrupulous honesty ... By the 1130s Geoffrey clearly felt that he was getting too big for the Marches and decided to do something that would make the world take notice ... ....
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