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Qarmatians
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The Qarmatians were an Isma'ili Shia militant movement led by a dynasty of Persian descent, centred in Al-Ahsa in Eastern Arabia, where they established a religious state in 899 CE. Its members were part of a movement that adhered to a syncretic branch of Sevener Ismaili Shia Islam, and were ruled by a dynasty founded by Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi. They rejected the claim of Fatimid Caliph Abdallah al-Mahdi Billah to imamate and clung to their belief in the coming of the Mahdi, and they revolted against the Fatimid and Abbasid Caliphates.
Key facts
- Former country.native_name
- قرامطة
- Former country.conventional_long_name
- Qarmatians
- Former country.common_name
- Qarmatians
- Former country.iso3166code
- omit
- Former country.era
- Islamic Golden Age
- Former country.government_type
- Theocracy
- Former country.event_start
- Established
- Former country.year_start
- 899
- Former country.event_end
- Overthrow
- Former country.year_end
- 1077
- Former country.event1
- Sack of Mecca
- Former country.date_event1
- 930
- Former country.event2
- al-Isfahani proclaimed to be the Mahdi
- Former country.date_event2
- 931
- Former country.event3
- Black Stone returned
- Former country.date_event3
- 952
- Former country.event4
- Defeated by the Abbasids
- Former country.date_event4
- 976
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Name and origin
- History
- Early developments
- Qarmatian Revolution
- Qarmatian society
- Collapse
- Imamate of Seven Imams
- Ismaili imams not accepted as legitimate by Qarmatians
- Qarmatian rulers in Eastern Arabia
- Substitution after Abu Tahir al-Jannabi
- See also
- References
- Sources
- External links
The Qarmatians were an Isma'ili Shia militant movement led by a dynasty of Persian descent, centred in Al-Ahsa in Eastern Arabia, where they established a religious state in 899 CE. Its members were part of a movement that adhered to a syncretic branch of Sevener Ismaili Shia Islam, and were ruled by a dynasty founded by Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi. They rejected the claim of Fatimid Caliph Abdallah al-Mahdi Billah to imamate and clung to their belief in the coming of the Mahdi, and they revolted against the Fatimid and Abbasid Caliphates.
Mecca was sacked by a Qarmatian leader, Abu Tahir al-Jannabi, outraging the Muslim world, particularly with their theft of the Black Stone and desecration of the Zamzam Well with corpses during the Hajj season of 930 CE.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Qarmatians” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.