History of Ismailism

branch of Isma'ili Shia Islam

large-scale raid by the Qarmatians of Bahrayn against the Abbasid Caliphate

12th-century Fatimid vizier

polemical tract (1011)

Ikjan (, ) is a former town near the present-day town of Beni Aziz in Algeria. Between 902 and 909 it served as the base and capital of the Kutama Berbers led by the ''dā'ī'' (missionary) Abu Abdallah al-Shi'i, who had founded an Isma'ili Shi'a state in the region on behalf of the Fatimid cause. This new movement rose in opposition to the Aghlabid dynasty, which ruled the region of Ifriqiya formally on behalf of the Abbasid Caliphs. The site of Ikjan was considered impregnable. In 909 Abu Abdallah and the Kutama armies finally overthrew the Aghlabids and set themselves up in Raqqada, laying th

15th-century Yemeni religious and political leader

10th-century Islamic scholar and writer