- The
Kaysanites (Arabic: كيسانية, romanized: Kaysāniyya) were a Shi'i sect of
Islam that
formed from the
followers of Al-Mukhtar. They
traced Imamate from...
- even
after the
defeat and
death of
Mukhtar in 686–687 in the form of the
Kaysanites, a now-extinct Shia sect that
traced the
imamate to Ibn al-Hanafiyya and...
- some
Kaysanites believed that he had not died but was
hidden in
Mount Radwa and
would return some day to rid the
world of injustice. Most
Kaysanites, however...
- Kasaniyya, who
continued to
trace the
imamate through his descendants. Some
Kaysanites apparently joined al-Sajjad when Ibn al-Hanafiyya died in 700 or 701....
- this
period were the now-extinct
Kaysanites and the Imamites.
Named after a
commander of al-Mukhtar, the
Kaysanites energetically opposed the Umayyads...
-
support against the Umayyads. The
Hashimiyya movement (a sub-sect of the
Kaysanites Shia) was
largely responsible for
starting the
final efforts against the...
- term for the
several denominations that
venerate or
deify Ali, like the
Kaysanites, the
Alawis or the Ahl-e Haqq/Yarsanis,
others to mean the Ahl-e Haqq...
- al-Thaqafi
later formed the
Kaysanite sect, who
traced the line of
Imamate to
Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya. The
Kaysanites had a
significant role in the...
- Hasan.
After his father's
death in 700 CE, the
Hashimiyya sub-sect of the
Kaysanites Shia
looked to Abu
Hashim as the heir of his
grandfather Ali.
After his...
-
threat had
arisen in Khorasan. The
Hashimiyya movement (a sub-sect of the
Kaysanites Shia), led by the
Abbasid family,
overthrew the
Umayyad caliphate. The...
