can anyone please tell me who are khoja shia? are they different from normal shia people? i was trying to google this, and wikipedia said that they are related to ismaily religion.
can anyone please answer this for me.
thank you.
Re: who are khoja shia?
Go back 6 centuries, they were were Hindus but converted to Ismaili subsect of the Shia Islam. In 1800’s majority changed to Ithna Ashri Shias.
Check out the World Federation of Khoja website: http://www.world-federation.org/default.htm
Brief history about them: http://www.imamreza.net/eng/imamreza.php?id=3032