Hamdan Qarmat ibn al-Ash'ath (Arabic: حمدان قرمط بن الأشعث, romanized: Ḥamdān Qarmaṭ ibn al-Ashʿath; fl. c. 874–899 CE) was the eponymous founder of the...

sources, the name derives from the surname of the sect's founder, Hamdan Qarmat. The name qarmat probably comes from the Aramaic for "short-legged", "red-eyed"...

recent disappearance of their twelfth imam. Missionaries (da'is) like Hamdan Qarmat and his brother-in-law Abu Muhammad Abdan spread the network of agents...

recent disappearance of the twelfth imam. Missionaries (dā'īs) such as Hamdan Qarmat and Ibn Hawshab spread the network of agents to the area round Kufa...

had a history of radical Islamic thought since the 9th century, with Hamdan Qarmaṭ as one of its teachers. It was in this religious centre that Hasan developed...

al-Husayn al-Ahwazi to the environs (sawād) of Kufa. The latter converted Hamdan Qarmat and founded the "Qarmatian" sect of Iraq. The anti-Isma'ili writer Akhu...

dynasty Zurayid dynasty Hamdanid dynasty Nizari Ismaili state People Hamdan Qarmat ibn Faraj ibn Ḥawshab ibn al-Fadl al-Jayshani ibn Mansur al-Yaman Abu...

dynasty Zurayid dynasty Hamdanid dynasty Nizari Ismaili state People Hamdan Qarmat ibn Faraj ibn Ḥawshab ibn al-Fadl al-Jayshani ibn Mansur al-Yaman Abu...

anti-Fatimid polemic works. According to this version, Isma'ili da'is, led by Hamdan Qarmat and his brother-in-law Abdan, spread their network of agents to the...

Isma'ili missionary (dā'ī) Abu Muhammad Abdan, the brother-in-law of Hamdan Qarmat, the overall leader of the Isma'ili movement in Iraq. In the period...