8. Syedna is known in Arab countries as "Azamat us Sultan" meaning the "great soveriegn".

Mumbai: The death of Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin, the 52nd head of the one million-strong Dawoodi Bohra sect, in January 2014, cleaved the tightly-knit community. An internecine dispute over his ...

The court had begun the final, day-to-day hearings in the suit in November 2022. Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin, the 52nd Da i al-Mutlaq, passed away in 2014 and his son, Mufaddal Saifuddin ...

MUMBAI: The narrow lanes and alleys of Zampa Bazaar in Surat are brimming with joy as around 80,000 Dawoodi Bohras from all over the world gathered there to celebrate the birthday of the 53rd Dai ...

MUMBAI: Bombay high court on Tuesday settled a 10-year-long legal battle over the question of succession to the Syedna, the spiritual leader of the million-plus Dawoodi Bohra community. A single ...

The legal battle over succession began after an uncle-nephew dispute emerged following the death of the 52nd Dai, Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin, in January 2014. Immediately after the Dai's death ...

by the 52nd Dai and his half-brother Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin in December 1965. He said in spite of the ‘nass’ conferred on him, Saifuddin, the son of the 52nd Dai, had announced himself to ...

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday dismissed a 2014 suit challenging the position and appointment of Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin as the leader of the Dawoodi Bohra Community. The court has ”only ...

claiming that he was the rightful 'Da'i-ul-Mutlaq' after the death of his half-brother Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, the 52nd Da'i of the one million-strong Dawoodi Bohra community, in 2014.

1. Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin saheb was the first Dai among Doat Mutlaqeen to complete 100 years of age.