- The
Qarmatians (Arabic: قرامطة, romanized:
Qarāmiṭa; Persian: قرمطیان, romanized: Qarmatiyān) were a
militant Isma'ili Shia
movement centred in Al-Ahsa...
- Shī‘ah sect of the
Bedouin Qarāmita in 968. In 970 the
Fatimids again briefly took control, only to lose it
again to the
Qarāmita. The old po****tion of Banias...
-
history of
eastern Arabia, the
Jarwanids were Twelvers, and the term "
Qaramita" was used
simply as an
epithet for "Shi'ite."
Jarwanid rule came to an...
- re****ation of the Shi'i
conception of the
office of Imam; Al-Radd 'ala Usul al-
Qaramita Radd Wa'id al-Fussaq, a re****ation of the Mu'tazili
doctrine that all grave...
-
Throughout its history, Al-Jamain
faced invasions,
including attacks by the
Qaramita in the 4th
century AH and
repeated raids by the
Khafaja tribes in the early...
- The
Sheikdom of al-H****a was an
independent tribal region, set up by the
Qarāmiṭa in the 10th century. It was
situated opposite of
Qatar and
Bahrain towards...
- and much of Arabia,
interrupting the flux of
pilgrims to Mecca. In 930,
Qaramita raiders sacked Mecca, and
stole the holy
Black Stone from the Kaaba, gravely...
-
there was
turmoil due to
revolt against Abbasids ruling by
members of the
Qaramita. He set out for
Yemen in 319 H with his
party and
eventually reach Hadhramaut...
-
return as the Qa'im. This
group is said to have
formed the
nucleus of the
Qaramita sect
which regarded Muhammad as
their seventh and last Imam. Ja'far ibn...
- It is
traditionally considered that Hamdan's
followers were
named the
Qarāmiṭa (singular Qarmaṭī), "men of Qarmat",
after him. However, the
Twelver Shi'a...
