Bajaliyya, the name of a Shiʿi group that existed in the Maghrib region of North Africa for over two centuries.

According to Ibn Ḥawqal (d. after 367/978), a group of Mūsawī Shiʿis who were followers of a certain ʿAlī b. Warṣand (d. 296/909) (cf. Madelung, 91 n. 4 who gives Warsand) lived in a region which he calls al-Sūs al-Aqṣā (‘Far Sūs’) at the western end of the Maghrib on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean (Ibn Ḥawqal, 1/91). They may be the same people who, according to reports narrated by writers in later peri…