Today most Ismailis I have encountered are Khojas; I know one Pashtun Ismailiyya but she is a convert from Sunnism.In the mountainous regions of Syria, for example, are to be found the Druzes, in their fastness in the Jebel Druze. They are really Ismailis who did not originally follow my family in their migration out of Egypt but remained with the memory of my ancestor, Al-Hakim, the Fatimid Caliph of Egypt, but they established their doctrines on lines very similar to those of the Syrian Ismailis, who, in present times, are my followers. Similar Ismaili "islands" exist in southern Egypt, in the Yemen and of course in Iraq.
In Iran the centres are around Mahalat, westward toward Hamadan and to the south of Tehran; others are in Khorassan to the north and east around about Yezd, around Kerman and southward along the coast of the Persian Gulf from Bandar Abbas to the borders of Pakistan and Sind, and into Baluchistan. Others are in Afghanistan, in Kabul itself; there are many in Russia and Central Asia, around Yarkand, Kashgar and in many villages and settlements in Sinkiang. In India certain Hindu tribes were converted by missionaries sent to them by my ancestor, Shah Islam Shah, and took the name of Khojas; a similar process of conversion occurred in Burma as recently as the nineteenth century.
Does anyone know how the (non-Druze) populations centres have fared, particularly the Arabic-speaking ones? I know there are Syrian Ismailis, but are there still Sa3iidi (Upper Egyptian) centres or any Nizaris in the Maghrib, in Iraq and Iraq? I know there are Ismailis in Yemen, but only about Bohras (Musta3lids). Are there Nizari Ismailis there?