
Crown of Creeds كتاب تاج العقائد ومعدن الفوائد
.Crown of Creeds by Emissary Absolute Arabic Edition: Rule as Dāʿī al-Muṭlaq[edit] Ali ibn Hatim's death on 31 May 1209 ended the Hamadi line of Dāʿīs without heir, and so Ali succeeded him. He ruled as Dāʿī al-Muṭlaq until his death, at Sana'a, on 21 December 1215 at the age of 90 years. The position of Dāʿī al-Muṭlaq ("absolute/unrestricted missionary") was the supreme authority of the Tayyibi community in their capacity as vicegerents of the absent Imam, the eponymous at-Tayyib Abu'l-Qasim, who remained in occultation. Although his immediate successor, Ali ibn Hanzala, was from the Banu Hamdan, in 1230 Ali's son al-Husayn became the eighth Dāʿī al-Muṭlaq, and with a single interruption, the office would remain in the hands of the Banu al-Walid family continuously until 1539. Like most of his predecessors and successors, Ali enjoyed good relations with the Hamdanid dynasty ruling Dhu Marmar, as well as the Ayyubid rulers of Sana'a. His grave is in Aghmur (Haraz), Yemen. His grave was