- al-Jannabi (ruled 923–944), the
Qarmaṭians came
close to
capturing Baghdad in 927, and
sacked Mecca in 930, The
Qarmatians also
sacked Medina. In
their attack...
- 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
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...
- The
Second Qarmatian invasion of
Egypt occurred in 974, when
Qarmatians of
Bahrayn unsuccessfully invaded Egypt, the seat (since 973) of the
Fatimid Caliphate...
- The
Qarmatian-Hudhayl
conflicts were a
series of two
military confrontations between the Banu
Hudhayl tribe and the
armies of the
Qarmatians of Bahrain...
-
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...
- imam.
According to some
early Isma'ilis, the Seveners, as well as the
Qarmatians, a
splinter group, the
number of
imams was fixed, with
seven Imams preordained...
- The
First Qarmatian invasion of
Egypt took
place in 971, when the
Qarmatians of
Bahrayn unsuccessfully invaded Egypt,
which had
recently been conquered...
- of the
Qarmatians of Bahrayn, who did not
hesitate to
align themselves with the
Abbasid caliph and
denounce al-Mu'izz in public. The
Qarmatian leader...
-
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...
