The ghulāt (Arabic: غُلَاة, lit. 'exaggerators, extremists') were a branch of early Shiʿa. The term mainly refers to a wide variety of extinct Shiʿi sects...

follow Alawism, a religious sect that splintered from early Shi'ism as a ghulat branch during the ninth century. Alawites venerate Ali ibn Abi Talib, revered...

name is used as a reference in Sufi, scientific, Sunni legal, Ismaili, and ghulāt circles. Most of these groups desired to use his legacy for their own agendas...

exaggerated reverence for Ali, he is traditionally considered as the first of the ghulāt. In accounts collected by Sayf ibn Umar, Ibn Saba' and his followers, the...

Ghulat Ajib (Arabic: غوله عجيب) is a sub-district located in Raydah District, 'Amran Governorate, Yemen. Hamadah had a population of 4770 according to...

There are indeed numerous anti-Ghulat traditions attributed to al-Baqir. Among others, he condemned the following two Ghulat figures and their followers:...

belonged to those circles in Kufa whom later Twelver Shi'i authors would call ghulāt ('exaggerators') for their 'exaggerated' veneration of the Imams. As a money-changer...

suggested. Of these, the Khurramites were, like the Qizilbash, an early Shi'i ghulat group and dressed in red, for which they were termed "the red ones" (Persian:...

Umar, Uthman ibn Affan and their followers. Anthropotheism Goran Kurds Ghulat Kurdish people Yarsanism Woulfe Sheil, Lady Mary Leonora; Sheil, Sir Justin...

hold beliefs deemed deviant by mainstream Shīʿa Muslims were designated as Ghulat. Kharijite (literally, "those who seceded") are an extinct sect who originated...

reincarnation is accepted by a few heterodox sects, particularly of the Ghulat. Alawites hold that they were originally stars or divine lights that were...

The Dhammiyya Shia was a ghulat sect of Islam. The name Dhammiyya was derived from the Arabic word dhamm (i.e. blame). Therefore, the Arabic name Dhammiyya...

The doctrine was also current among the 8th/9th-century Shias known as ghulāt (lit. 'exaggerators'), whose elaboration of the idea may have influenced...

This too, was not new: several Shi'a groups, known as the "extremists" (ghulāt) had tended to deify their imams, starting already with Ali (r. 656–661)...

Qizilbash Sheikh Haydar / Shah Ismail / Pir Sultan / Kul Nesîmî – Safavid Islam Ghulat al-Khaṣībī / ibn Nusayr – Alawites Astarabadi (Naimi) / Imadaddin Nasimi...

lit. 'Mother of the Book') is a syncretic Shi'i work originating in the ghulāt milieus of 8th-century Kufa (Iraq). It was later transplanted to Syria by...

Qizilbash Sheikh Haydar / Shah Ismail / Pir Sultan / Kul Nesîmî – Safavid Islam Ghulat al-Khaṣībī / ibn Nusayr – Alawites Astarabadi (Naimi) / Imadaddin Nasimi...

Qizilbash Sheikh Haydar / Shah Ismail / Pir Sultan / Kul Nesîmî – Safavid Islam Ghulat al-Khaṣībī / ibn Nusayr – Alawites Astarabadi (Naimi) / Imadaddin Nasimi...

ISBN 9781556432699. Retrieved 2013-01-04. Matti Moosa (1987). Extremist Shiites: The Ghulat Sects. Syracuse University Press. p. 267. ISBN 9780815624110. Madeleine...

ancient tradition. The Qizilbash were a wide variety of Shiʻi Muslims (ghulāt) and mostly Turcoman militant groups who helped found the Safavid Empire...

crucified in Jesus' stead. However, some medieval Muslims (among others, the ghulāt writing under the name of al-Mufaddal ibn Umar al-Ju'fi, the Brethren of...

Shah Afshar, a Shia chieftain from Khorasan who reduced the power of the ghulat Shi'a and empowered a moderate form of Shi'ism,: 300  and, exceptionally...

Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4254-7916-9. Moosa, Matti (1988). Extremist Shiites: The Ghulat Sects. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-2411-0. Shi'a Minorities...

Qizilbash Sheikh Haydar / Shah Ismail / Pir Sultan / Kul Nesîmî – Safavid Islam Ghulat al-Khaṣībī / ibn Nusayr – Alawites Astarabadi (Naimi) / Imadaddin Nasimi...

tracing back to the Kaysanites and Khurramites which are considered as Ghulat Shīʿītes. According to Turkish scholar Abdülbaki Gölpınarlı, the Qizilbash...

be an incarnation of God, and superior to Muhammad, but their image as a Ghulat (lit. 'exaggerators' or 'extremists') subsect of Shia Islam is incorrect...

al-Sayyari, even though he has been widely accused of connections to the Ghulat (lit. 'exaggerators' or 'extremists'), and a letter ascribed to the Twelver...

Qizilbash Sheikh Haydar / Shah Ismail / Pir Sultan / Kul Nesîmî – Safavid Islam Ghulat al-Khaṣībī / ibn Nusayr – Alawites Astarabadi (Naimi) / Imadaddin Nasimi...

Tablet (short and cryptic Hermetic text cited by Jabir) History of chemistry Ghulāt (label for early Shi'ite heterodox sects like the Jabirians) Abū Bakr al-Rāzī...

Qizilbash Sheikh Haydar / Shah Ismail / Pir Sultan / Kul Nesîmî – Safavid Islam Ghulat al-Khaṣībī / ibn Nusayr – Alawites Astarabadi (Naimi) / Imadaddin Nasimi...