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term used to denote a person who is perceived as harboring malice for ʿAli b. Abi Ṭāleb (q.v.) or members of his household. N ĀṢEBI (pl.  nawāṣeb), the term used to denote a person who is perceived as harboring malice for ʿAli b. Abi Ṭāleb (q.v.) or members of his household (see AHL-E BAYT). The term  nāṣebi  is also used among Shiʿites to refer to a Sunni with anti-Shiʿite views.  Introduction. In contrast to the popular tendency to venerate ʿAli b. Abi Ṭāleb and his kin among Moslems, some personalities are described in medieval literature as holding them in co…

Abū l-Khaṭṭāb Muḥammad b. Abī Zaynab Miqlāṣ al-Asadī was a Shīʿī heresiarch and rebel executed in the early ʿAbbāsid period (c. 138/755). He was a Kufan client of the tribe of Asad; details regarding his early life are uncertain. The Khaṭṭābiyya, named after him, were considered a ghulāt (radical Shīʿī) sect for their beliefs about the divinity of the prophet Muḥammad, his household, and certain other persons. The extent to which the doctrines of the Khaṭṭābiyya can be attributed to Abū l-Khaṭṭāb is unclear. The Umm al-Kitāb (“Mother of the Book”), composed by anonymous ghulāt, narrates …

The Al-Khaṭṭābiyya were a sect of the ghulāt (radical Shīʿa) founded by Abū l-Khaṭṭāb al-Asadī (d. c.138/755). Abū l-Khaṭṭāb was considered a respected disciple and representative of Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq (the sixth Twelver Shīʿī Imām, d. 148/765) in Kufa until Jaʿfar reportedly repudiated and cursed him, probably for theological, political, and legal claims made by Abū l-Khaṭṭāb in Jaʿfar’s name. ʿĪsā b. Mūsā, the ʿAbbāsid governor of Kufa (132–47/750–64), executed and crucified Abū l-Khaṭṭāb after a milita…