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Khoja
The Khojas ((シンド語:کوجا، خوجا، خواجا), (トルコ語:Hodja, Hoca)), (アルバニア語:Hoxha)) are a group of diverse people who converted to Islam in South Asia. The word ''Khoja'' derives from ''Khwāja'' (New Persian ''Khājé''), a Persian honorific title () of pious individuals from Central Asia, South Asia and the Middle East.
In India, most Khojas live in the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and the city of Hyderabad. Many Khojas have also migrated and settled over the centuries in East Africa, Europe and North America. The Khoja were by then adherents of Nizārī Ismā'īlīsm. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly in the aftermath of the Aga Khan Case a significant minority separated and adopted Twelver Shi'ism or Sunni Islam, while the majority remained Nizārī Ismā'īlī.
==Origin of the name==
The term ''Khwaja'', pronounced ''Khoja'' in the Gujarati and Sindhi languages, is a Persian honorific title, first bestowed by the allegedly Nizārī Ismā'īlī Sadardin ''(died c. 15th century)'' upon his followers during the lifetime of the ''Nizari Ismaili Imam Islam Shah'' (1368-1423 CE). As such, Pir Shihab al-din Shah, brother of one of the Nizari Ismaili imams, wrote regarding the origins of the Khojas that the very formation of the community came about through Pir Sadardin’s devotion to the Imam.〔Virani, Shafique N. The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: A History of Survival, A Search for Salvation (New York: Oxford University Press), 2007, p. 102.〕
Speculation exists that many Lohanas of Gujarat converted to Nizari Ismailism due to the efforts of Pir Sadardin. They gradually used the title ''Khoja.'' Before the arrival of the Aga Khan from Persia to British ruled India in the 19th century, Khojas retained many Hindu traditions, including a variation on the Vaishnavite belief in the Dashavatara
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