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Ismailis are chameleons...when they were on top their elite were Berbers (Fatimids)
Today their Aga Khan is a white guy because his mum was Swiss:
But besides the Fatimids (and the Assassins) in medieval times...they were big nothings, the true Shia power are the "Twelver Shias" (Iran, Hezbollah, Iraq, Azerbaijan, a lot of Afghanis, a lot of Pakistanis).
Other Shia big nothings: Alawites (only Assad's people in Syriaa and some isolated villages in Turkey, where they are called Alevi)
Zaidis (Closest to Sunnis) represented by the Houthi in Yemen
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