Ghayba or al-Ghayba (Arabic: الغيبة, 'Occultation', 'Concealment') may refer to:
Occultation (Islam), Shi'ite eschatological belief in the concealment and subsequent reemergence of an Imam or Mahdi, who will establish justice and peace on earth in the end of time
Minor Occultation, first period of concealment of the Imam (874–941) in Twelver Shi'ism, during which the twelfth and last Imam Muhammad al-Mahdi (c. 868–874) is believed to have communicated regularly with his followers through four successive agents
Major Occultation, second period of concealment of the Imam (941–present) in Twelver Shi'ism, during which the hidden Imam Muhammad al-Mahdi is believed to be without agent
Kitab al-Ghayba (al-Nu'mani), sometimes simply known as al-Ghayba, a work on the occultation of Muhammad al-Mahdi by the Twelver Shi'ite scholar Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Nu'mani (died c. 970)
Kitab al-Ghayba (al-Tusi), sometimes simply known as al-Ghayba, a work on the occultation of Muhammad al-Mahdi by the Twelver Shi'ite scholar Shaykh Tusi (995–1067)
Ghayba or al-Ghayba (Arabic: الغيبة, 'Occultation', 'Concealment') may refer to: Occultation (Islam), Shi'ite eschatological belief in the concealment...
eleventh Imam, Hasan al-Askari (d. 874), who is said to be in occultation (ghayba) by divine will. This is rejected by most Sunnis, who assert that the Mahdi...
Al-osul Al-fatawa Al-Mabsut Al-Iqtisad Al Hadi Ila Tariq Al Rashad Kitab al-Ghayba Ekhtiyar Ma'refat Al- Rijal Shia Islam Ja'fari jurisprudence The Four Books...
Al-Amali by Shayhk Murtaza Al-Amali by Shaykh Tusi Kitab al-Ghayba by Shaykh Tusi Kitab al-Ghayba by Muhammad Ibn Ibrahim Ibn Jafar al-Numani Khasais of Al...
or died; their followers believed that they had gone into "occultation" (ghayba) and would return (or be resurrected) at the appointed time. These traditions...
Kitab al-Ghayba (al-Nu'mani), a work on the topic by the 10th-century Twelver Shia scholar Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Nu'mani Kitab al-Ghayba (al-Tusi)...
or ghayba Kitab al-Ghayba (al-Nu'mani), a work on the occultation by the 10th-century Shia scholar Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Nu'mani Kitab al-Ghayba (al-Tusi)...
been questioned. Some ghulāt ideas, such as the notion of the Occultation (ghayba) and return (rajʿa) of the Imam, have been influential in the development...
epistle (Risālat al-Ghayba, 'Epistle of Occultation'), in which he announced his retirement and al-Hakim's concealment or occultation (ghayba). In it, Hamza...
secret for three years, a period which Almohad chroniclers described as a ghayba or "occultation". This period likely gave Abd al-Mu'min time to secure his...
place, under which there is a cellar (sardab) that hides a well (Bi'r al-Ghayba, lit. 'well of the occultation'). Into this well, al-Mahdi is said to have...
Akhbar Al-Ridha Da'a'im al-Islam The Book of Sulaym ibn Qays al-Ghayba (al-Nu'mani) al-Ghayba (al-Tusi) Tuhaf al-Uqul Khasais of Al Aemmah Kamil al-Ziyarat...
had a young son, named Muhammad, who had entered a state of occultation (ghayba) due to the Abbasid threat to his life. As the special representative of...
principles based on rulings made by the Imams prior to the Occultation (ghayba) of the last Imam, "married with other sources of revelation (such as the...
Akhbar Al-Ridha Da'a'im al-Islam The Book of Sulaym ibn Qays al-Ghayba (al-Nu'mani) al-Ghayba (al-Tusi) Tuhaf al-Uqul Khasais of Al Aemmah Kamil al-Ziyarat...
Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik (r. 724–743), long before the reported occultation (ghayba) of the twelfth and final Shia imam Muhammad al-Mahdi in 874 CE. Some have...
reappearance of Muhammad al-Mahdi "18: The rising of as-Sufyani". Kitab al-Ghayba: The Book of Occultation (in Arabic and English). Al-Islam. 2015-07-23....
(scholars) as authorities in legal and religious matters during the Occultation (ghayba) of the Imamah Mahdi. Until the return of the hidden Imam, it is the responsibility...
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