9th-century Islam

period of cultural flourishing in the 8th to 13th centuries

thumb|right|300px|Map of the Mihna and events associated with itThe Mihna () was a period of religious persecution instituted by the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun in 833 in which Sunni scholars were punished, imprisoned, or even killed unless they conformed to Mu'tazilite doctrine. The policy lasted for eighteen years (833–851) as it continued through the reigns of al-Ma'mun's immediate successors, al-Mu'tasim and al-Wathiq, and four years of al-Mutawakkil who reversed it in 851.

874–941 CE time period in the theology of Shia Islam

messengers of the 12th Imam in Twelver Shia Islam

Muslim traditionalist, Hadith scholar

Shia sect