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(al-Nakkāra, al-Nakkārīya) “deniers”: one of the main branches ofthe Ḵh̲ārid̲j̲ī sect of the Ibāḍīya [q. v.; cf. also the article abāḍīs]. The existence of this sect has already been proved by E. Masqueray, A. de C. Motylinski and R. Strothmann; cf. however the ¶ opinion of G. Levi Delia Vida, according to whom al-Nukkār is simply “an insulting epithet applied to Ḵh̲ārid̲j̲īs in general” [cf. the article sufrīya]. The name al-Nukkār comes from the fact that the members of this sect refused to recognise the second Ibāḍī imām of Tāhert, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. ʿAbd al-…

ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Thamīnī al-Yasjanī (b. c.1130/1718, d. 1223/1808), known as Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn, was a celebrated Ibāḍī scholar from the Mzāb, a group of oases in present-day northeastern Algeria. His genealogy goes back, like that of Muḥammad b. Yūsuf Aṭfayyish (d. 1332/1914), to ʿUmar b. Ḥafṣ al-Hintātī (d. 571/1175–6), forebear of the Ḥafṣids, who ruled Tunisia from the seventh/thirteenth to the tenth/sixteenth century; by another account he was descended from the ca…