{"id":3226,"date":"2023-02-11T03:21:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T21:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3226"},"modified":"2025-03-26T11:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T05:36:15","slug":"dawoodi-bohra-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dawoodi-bohra-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Dawoodi Bohra Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About the Dawoodi Bohra Community:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Dawoodi Bohras are members of the Muslim community\u2019s <strong>Shia sect<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>In India, they are located mainly in Gujarat and were traditionally shopkeepers and traders.<\/li>\n<li>The main language of the community is <strong>Lisan al-Dawat<\/strong>, a dialect of Gujarati with inclusions from Arabic and Urdu.<\/li>\n<li>The leader of the community is known as the <strong>Al-Dai-Al-Mutlaq.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>For over 400 years, the leader has been based out of India, including the current and 53rd leader, His Holiness Dr Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is Excommunicate?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>In practice, being excommunicated includes <strong>not being allowed to access a mosque belonging to the community or a burial dedicated to the community<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The Bombay Prevention of Excommunication Act, of 1949 was enacted to stop the practice of excommunication prevalent in certain communities.<\/li>\n<li>This is because excommunication is said to deprive the legitimate rights and privileges of its members.<\/li>\n<li>The leader of the community has the right to excommunicate its members.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Who are Shia Muslims?<\/h3>\n<p>They are the followers of a particular school of Islamic thought, which is based on the teachings of the Prophet and his family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/excommunication-dawoodi-bohra-supreme-court-8436450\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>\u00a0Excommunication in Dawoodi Bohra community: SC refers plea to the nine-judge bench<\/u><\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dawoodi Bohras are members of the Muslim community\u2019s Shia sect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}