What is Khoja?
'''Khowaja''' or '''Khoja''' are [[Shia Islam|Shia]] (Nizari Isma'ili) muslim community of [[Sindh]], [[Pakistan]] and [[Gujarat]], [[India]]. They were of [[Baniya caste|Baniya]] and [[Lohana]] caste groups (merchants and traders) from Sindh, who converted to [[Islam]] from Hinduism under Muslim Pīr Ṣadr al-Dīn.<ref>{{Cite book|title=India: an anthropological perspective|url=https://archive.org/details/india00step|last=Tyler|first=Stephen A.|date=1986|publisher=Waveland Pr|isbn=978-0-88133-245-2|edition=Reissued|location=Prospect Heights, Ill}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137485779|title=The Persian Gulf in Modern Times|language=en|doi=10.1057/9781137485779}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Shia Islam]]