- The
ghulāt (Arabic: غُلَاة, lit. 'exaggerators, extremists') were a
branch of
early Shi'a Islam. The term
mainly refers to a wide
variety of
extinct Shi'i...
- and
follow Alawism. A sect of
Islam that
splintered from
early Shia as a
ghulat branch during the
ninth century,
Alawites venerate Ali ibn Abi Talib, the...
- name is used as a
reference in Sufi, scientific, **** legal, Ismaili, and
ghulāt circles. Most of
these groups desired to use his
legacy for
their own agendas...
- suggested. Of these, the
Khurramites were, like the Qizilbash, an
early ghulat group and
dressed in red, for
which they were
termed "the red ones" (Persian:...
- This too, was not new:
several Shi'a groups,
known as the "extremists" (
ghulāt) had
tended to
deify their imams,
starting already with Ali (r. 656–661)...
-
enforced by
later imams.
Several traditions of al-Baqir are
against the
Ghulat (lit. 'exaggerators').
These often conferred divinity on Shia
imams or had...
-
tracing back to the
Kaysanites and
Khurramites which are
considered as
Ghulat Shīʿītes.
According to
Turkish scholar Abdülbaki Gölpınarlı, the Qizilbash...
- the Bushariyya,
named after Muhammad ibn Bashir, the Kufa
exaggerator (
ghulat) who
regarded al-Kazim as
divine and
claimed to be his
interim successor...
-
crucified in Jesus's stead. However, some
medieval Muslims (among others, the
ghulāt writing under the name of al-Mufaddal ibn Umar al-Ju'fi, the
Brethren of...
-
sword to
spread the
faith and
several epistles re****ing the
beliefs of the
ghulat. In 1016 ad-Darazi and his
followers openly proclaimed their beliefs and...
