Hamdan Qarmat ibn al-Ash'ath (Arabic: حمدان قرمط بن الأشعث, romanized: Ḥamdān Qarmaṭ ibn al-Ashʿath; fl. c. 874–899 CE) was the eponymous founder of the Qarmatian sect of Isma'ilism. Originally the chief Isma'ili missionary (dā'ī) in lower Iraq, in 899 he quarreled with the movement's leadership at Salamiya after it was taken over by Sa'id ibn al-Husayn (the future first Fatimid Caliph), and with his followers broke off from them. Hamdan then disappeared, but his followers continued in existence in the Syrian Desert and al-Bahrayn for several decades.
HamdanQarmat ibn al-Ash'ath (Arabic: حمدان قرمط بن الأشعث, romanized: ḤamdānQarmaṭ ibn al-Ashʿath; fl. c. 874–899 CE) was the eponymous founder of the...
sources, the name derives from the surname of the sect's founder, HamdanQarmat. The name qarmat probably comes from the Aramaic for "short-legged", "red-eyed"...
recent disappearance of their twelfth imam. Missionaries (da'is) like HamdanQarmat and his brother-in-law Abu Muhammad Abdan spread the network of agents...
recent disappearance of the twelfth imam. Missionaries (dā'īs) such as HamdanQarmat and Ibn Hawshab spread the network of agents to the area round Kufa...
dynasty Zurayid dynasty Hamdanid dynasty Nizari Ismaili state People HamdanQarmat ibn Faraj ibn Ḥawshab ibn al-Fadl al-Jayshani ibn Mansur al-Yaman Abu...
dynasty Zurayid dynasty Hamdanid dynasty Nizari Ismaili state People HamdanQarmat ibn Faraj ibn Ḥawshab ibn al-Fadl al-Jayshani ibn Mansur al-Yaman Abu...
dynasty Zurayid dynasty Hamdanid dynasty Nizari Ismaili state People HamdanQarmat ibn Faraj ibn Ḥawshab ibn al-Fadl al-Jayshani ibn Mansur al-Yaman Abu...
Qarmatians, a sect of Isma'ili Shias founded by the Iraqi-born HamdanQarmat. Hamdan assumed the leadership of Isma'ili missionary activity in the rural...
dynasty Zurayid dynasty Hamdanid dynasty Nizari Ismaili state People HamdanQarmat ibn Faraj ibn Ḥawshab ibn al-Fadl al-Jayshani ibn Mansur al-Yaman Abu...
dynasty Zurayid dynasty Hamdanid dynasty Nizari Ismaili state People HamdanQarmat ibn Faraj ibn Ḥawshab ibn al-Fadl al-Jayshani ibn Mansur al-Yaman Abu...
dynasty Zurayid dynasty Hamdanid dynasty Nizari Ismaili state People HamdanQarmat ibn Faraj ibn Ḥawshab ibn al-Fadl al-Jayshani ibn Mansur al-Yaman Abu...
claims. Those in Iraq and Arabia, known as Qarmatians after their leader HamdanQarmat, still held that Muhammad ibn Isma'il was the awaited Mahdi and denounced...
families and communities. Examples: the first Da'i was Dhuayb Bin Mousa (Hamdan), Dawud Bin Ajab Shah(Indian), Sulayman Bin Al Hassan (Indian) and some...
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