Qarmatian

Qarmatian

▪ Shīʿite sect
also spelled  Qarmathian,  Karmatian , or  Karmathian , Arabic  Qarmatī , plural  Qarāmiṭah 

      a member of the Shīʿite Muslim sect known as the Ismāʿīlites. The Qarmatians flourished in Iraq, Yemen, and especially Bahrain during the 9th to 11th centuries, taking their name from Ḥamdān Qarmaṭ, who led the sect in southern Iraq in the second half of the 9th century. The Qarmatians became notorious for an insurrection in Syria and Iraq in 903–906 and for the exploits of two Bahraini leaders, Abū Saʿīd al-Jannābī and his son and successor, Abū Ṭāhir Sulaymān, who invaded Iraq several times and in 930 sacked Mecca and carried off the Black Stone of the Kaʿbah. See also Ismāʿīlite (Ismāʿīlīte).

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