Conclusion

Abstract

The transmutations which have occurred in the Ismaili imamate and the way it has led the Ismaili Community are mainly the result of two major factors. The first, which is of historical importance, is the migration of the Ismaili imamate from Persia to India, which led to the reactivation of the function of the Imam after a long period of absence from the social and political spheres following the fall of the Alamūt state. The migration of the Ismaili imamate to India opened many new doors for the imamate to start the engine of institutional development. A key factor in these developments was the socio-economic conditions of the Ismailis in the subcontinent and later in East Africa, which led to the introduction of legal-bureaucratic frameworks in the form of Ismaili Constitutions.