- 923–944), the
Qarmaṭians came
close to
capturing Baghdad in 927, and
sacked Mecca in 930. In
their attack on Islam's
holiest sites, the
Qarmatians desecrated...
- The
overthrow of the
Qarmatians was an
armed uprising by the
Seljuk and
Abbasid supported Uyunids against the
ruling Qarmatian state. A
local chief known...
- The
Qarmatian invasion of Iraq was a large-scale raid by the
Qarmatians of
Bahrayn against the
Abbasid Caliphate's
metropolitan region of Iraq, that began...
-
January 930, when the
Qarmatians of
Bahrayn sacked the
Muslim holy city
amidst the
rituals of the Hajj pilgrimage. The
Qarmatians, a
radical Isma'ili sect...
-
Before Abu Tahrir's rule, the
Qarmatians had
launched several raids along the
pilgrim routes crossing Arabia. In 906,
Qarmatians ambushed the
pilgrim caravan...
- seven-year war of
attrition and a
siege of the
Qarmatian capital at Qatif. The
final overthrow of the
Qarmatians started with the
revolt of Abu al-Bahlul al-Awwam...
- with the
Qarmatians that
signalled the end of
their invasions of Syria. Al-Hasan al-A'sam was born at al-Ahsa Oasis, the
capital of the
Qarmatians of Bahrayn...
- to lead the last
Qarmatian attacks on the
Abbasids in Iraq,
before being defeated and
captured early in the next year. The
Qarmatians had more success...
- imam.
According to some
early Isma'ilis, the Seveners, as well as the
Qarmatians, a
splinter group, the
number of
imams was fixed, with
seven Imams preordained...
- of the
Caliphate itself were
menaced by the
Qarmatians, a
radical Isma'ili Shi'ite sect. The
Qarmatians denounced mainstream ****
Islam for practices...
