الإسماعيلية الطيبة

كان الداعي المطلق زوب بن موسى يسكن في هوث باليمن، حيث توفي. وكان معاونُه الخطاب بن الحسن. بعد وفاة عبد الله ، عيّن زوب بن موسى يعقوب وليًا للدعوة الطيبية في الهند. وكان يعقوب أول شخص من أصل هندي يحظى بهذا الشرف. وهو ابن بهارمال، وزير الملك جاياسيمها سيدهاراجا من سلالة تشولوكيا . أُرسل فخر الدين، ابن تارمال، وهو وزير آخر، إلى غرب راجستان . واستمر الدعاة المطلقون في هذا المنصب حتى وصل الداعي المطلق الرابع والعشرون، يوسف نجم الدين بن سليمان ، إلى اليمن. بسبب اضطهاد الحاكم الزيدي المحلي، انتقلت الدعوة بعد ذلك إلى الهند تحت قيادة الداعي المطلق الخامس والعشرين، سيدنا جلال شمس الدين بن حسن في عام 1567.

In 1592, the Tayyibi broke into two factions in a dispute over who should become the twenty-seventh Da'i al mutlaq: Dawood Bin Qutubshah or Sulayman bin Hassan. The followers of the former, primarily in India, became the Dawoodi Bohra, the latter the Sulaymani of Yemen. In 1621, the Alavi Bohra split from the Dawoodi Bohra community.

There is also a community of Sunni Bohra in India. In the fifteenth century, there was a schism in the Bohra community of Patan in Gujarat as a large number converted from Mustaali Ismaili Shia Islam to mainstream Hanafi Sunni Islam. The leader of this conversion movement to Sunni was Syed Jafar Ahmad Shirazi who also had the support of the governor of Gujarat. Thus this new group is known as Jafari Bohras, Patani Bohras or Sunni Bohra. Syed Jafar Ahmad Shirazi convinced the Patani Bohras to cease social relations with Ismaili Bohras. The cumulative results of these pressures resulted in a large number of Bohras converting from Shia Ismaili fiqh to Sunni Hanafi fiqh.

The Hebtiahs Bohra was a branch of Mustaali Ismaili Shi'a Islam that broke off from the mainstream Dawoodi Bohra after the death of the 39th Da'i al-Mutlaq in 1754. The Atba-e-Malak community are a branch of Mustaali Ismaili Shi'a Islam that broke off from the mainstream Dawoodi Bohra after the death of the 46th Da'i al-Mutlaq, under the leadership of Abdul Hussain Jivaji in 1840. They have further split into two more branches, the Atba-e-Malak Badar and Atba-e-Malak Vakil. The Progressive Dawoodi Bohra is a reformist sect within Mustaali Ismai'li Shi'a Islam that broke off circa 1977. They disagree with mainstream Dawoodi Bohra, as led by the Da'i al-Mutlaq, on doctrinal, economic and social issues.

At present, the largest Tayyibi faction/sub-sect is the Dawoodi Bohra, whose current leader is Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin. Taher Fakhruddin is also a claimant to the title of Dai al Mutlaq since 2016, although it is widely accepted that Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin is the leader of the Dawoodi Bohras, in all aspects and administration.