Musta'lī

Among the Musta'lī, the Tayyibis recognized the infant al-Tayyib as imam after the death of al-Amir in 1130. Queen Arwa of Yemen established the office of da'i al-mutlaq to direct the community on his behalf.

Persecution by a local Zaydi ruler led the Tayyibi mission to move its headquarters from Yemen to India in 1567. In 1592 a dispute over its leadership divided the followers of Dawud ibn Qutb from those of Sulayman ibn Hasan.