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Ibn Zūlāq
(373 words)
Ibn Zūlāq, Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan b. Ibrāhīm al-Laythī (306–86/919–96), was an Egyptian historian and the author of a number of biographical, historical, and topographical works on Egypt in the time of the Ikhshīdids (323–58/935–69) and early Fāṭimids (297–567/909–1171). These works, though almost entirely lost, underlie a good deal of subsequent historiography relating to this period. His continuation of Muḥammad b. Yūsuf al-Kindī’s (d. 350/961)
Umarāʾ Miṣr (“The book of Egyptian governors”) ends in the year 302/915 and his additions to the same author’s
Akhbār quḍāt Miṣr (“The …
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2022-08-02
al-Jannābī, Abū Saʿīd
(735 words)
Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥasan b. Bahrām
al-Jannābī (d. 300/913) founded the Ismāʿīlī Qarmaṭian communities on the Persian Gulf. He was of Persian origin, from the port of Jannāba (present-day Ganāva), on the Iranian coast. In the
sawād (rural district) of Kufa, he married into a family that had been converted to the Ismāʿīlī
daʿwa (mission), which was then headed by Ḥamdān Qarmaṭ and his brother-in-law Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdān (murdered 286/899). Abū Saʿīd was eventually won over to the
daʿwa. Becoming a
dāʿī (missionary) himself, he was initially active in his home region—Jannāba, Sīnīz, …
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
al-Jannābī, Abū Ṭāhir
(873 words)
Abū Ṭāhir Sulaymān b. Abī Saʿīd
al-Jannābī (d. 332/944) was the son and successor of Abū Saʿīd al-Jannābī, the founder of the Qarmaṭian community in al-Baḥrayn. Born in Ramaḍān 294/June–July 906, he was still a minor when his father was murdered in 300/913, and, with his five brothers, he remained under the tutelage of his uncle, the
dāʿī (missionary) al-Ḥasan b. Sanbar. When he reached his majority, in Ramaḍān 310/December 922–January 923, he took over the leadership and soon terrorised the population of southern Iraq. Every year from 310 to 314/923 …
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
AHL-E ḤAQQ
(4,715 words)
“People of (the absolute) Truth,” a sect found in western Persia and some regions of northeastern Iraq; the name has also been adopted by other Islamic sects (Noṣayrīs, Ḥorūfīs) and appears to be rooted in the tradition of the extremist Shiʿites (
ḡolāt).A version of this article is available in printVolume I, Fascicle 6, pp. 635-637i. AHL-E ḤAQQ“People of (the absolute) Truth,” a sect found in western Persia and some regions of northeastern Iraq; the name has also been adopted by other Islamic sects (Noṣayrīs, Ḥorūfīs) and appears to be rooted in the tradition of the extremist Shiʿites (
ḡol…
Source:
Encyclopaedia Iranica Online
Date:
2021-06-17