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Qarmatians
Also known as Carmathians, Qarmathians, Karmathians, Qaramita
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
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Article
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.