Ali Shams al-Din I

Not to be confused with Ali Shams al-Din II, Ali Shams al-Din III, or Ali Shams al-Din IV.

Ali Shams al-Din ibn Ibrahim was the thirteenth Tayyibi Isma'ili Dāʿī al-Muṭlaq in Yemen, from 1329 to his death in 1345.

Allied with some of the Banu Hamdan tribe, he fought against the Zaydi imams. In 1332, his forces seized the fortress of Dhu Marmar. His son Abdallah became the 16th Dāʿī al-Muṭlaq in 1378.

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  Graves of the three Dāʿīs being uncovered at Hisn Af'ida
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  Hisn Af'ida hill, near al-Maḩārīq, Sanaa, where the graves of the 11th, 12th, 13th and 15th Dāʿī are located

Sources

• Daftary, Farhad (2007). The Ismāʿı̄lı̄s: Their History and Doctrines (Second ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-61636-2.