Bohras? Who are the Bohras? I found this at Wikipedia: under the entry for “Bohra”:
Inclusion within the Islamic Community
The Dawoodi Bohras, being Ismailis and thus Jafaris, are included as Muslims in the Amman Message signed by over 500 Islamic scholars in 2005, including several Bohra princes representing the Republic of India.[2] In the introduction to the Amman Message Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad clearly includes Ismaili Bohras and Nizaris within the Jafari School of Jurisprudence: These three main divisions of Islam then developed their own schools of juridical methodology (Mathhabs) and consequently of Islamic holy law (Shari’ah): the Sunnis developed four major Madhhabs (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi‘i and Hanbali,) dating back to around 800 CE; the Shi‘a developed two major Madhhabs (the Ja‘fari Madhhab — the so-named ‘Twelvers’, named for the number of their infallible Imams; and the Zeidi Madhhab — the so-named ‘Fivers’, likewise named for the number of their imams). The Ismaili Shi’a (the ‘Seveners’—so-named because of the number of their infallible imams) have two branches: (A) the Dawudi Buhara who follow the fiqh of Qadi Nu’man and thus are basically Shafi’i with some Ja’fari fiqh under the aegis of their Chief Dai’i, the Sultan of the Buhara, and (B) the Nizaris who follow their living Imam, the Aga Khan, and (see letter of the 49th Aga Khan to the International Islamic Conference of July 2005) affirm loyalty to the Ja’fari Mathhab. The Ibadhis developed their own Madhhab, and mention must be made of the Thahiri Madhhab which developed in Muslim Andalusia (there are no Thahiris as such alive today but scholars still consider the methodology of Madhhab as valid). These together formed the so-called ‘eight Madhhabs’ of Islam.
Are they Ismailis? And is that to be considered a subset of Shi’a Islam? They are not, I take it, Ibadis (“Ibadhis”), who “developoed their own Madhhab.” To sum up: they are not Sunni Muslims so of course Sunni Muslims are quite correct in attacking them. If not disbelievers, they are hypocrites, and that’s what you do with hypocrites.
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There are so many infallible scholars and methodologies, and yet, they can’t all be right. Tricky one that.