- The
Qarmatians (Arabic: قرامطة, romanized: Qarāmiṭa; Persian: قرمطیان, romanized: Qarmatiyān) were a
militant Isma'ili Shia
movement centred in Al-Ahsa...
- The
Qarmatian invasion of Iraq was a large-scale raid by the
Qarmatians of
Bahrayn against the
Abbasid Caliphate's
metropolitan region of Iraq, that began...
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January 930, when the
Qarmatians of
Bahrayn sacked the
Muslim holy city
amidst the
rituals of the Hajj pilgrimage. The
Qarmatians, a
radical Isma'ili sect...
- romanized: Abū-Tāher Bahrām Gonāve'i) was a
warlord and the
ruler of the
Qarmatian state in Bahrayn. He
became leader of the
state in 923,
after ousting...
- The
Overthrow of the
Qarmatians was an
armed uprising by the
Seljuk and
Abbasid supported Uyunids against the
ruling Qarmatian state. A
local chief known...
- The
First Qarmatian invasion of
Egypt took
place in 971, when the
Qarmatians of
Bahrayn unsuccessfully invaded Egypt,
which had
recently been conquered...
- The
Qarmatian-Hudhayl
conflicts were a
series of two
military confrontations between the Banu
Hudhayl tribe and the
armies of the
Qarmatians of Bahrain...
- The
Second Qarmatian invasion of
Egypt occurred in 974, when
Qarmatians of
Bahrayn unsuccessfully invaded Egypt, the seat (since 973) of the
Fatimid Caliphate...
-
excitement among the
Qarmatians (and in Persia) over the
conjunction of
Saturn and
Jupiter in 928.
Bahrain became the seat of the
Qarmatian Mahdi-Caliph from...
-
Modern Arab
World The
Qarmatians were
defeated in
battle in 976 by the Abbasids,
which precipitated the
decline of the
Qarmatian state.
Around 1058, a...
