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 Shia Islam as a ghulat branch during the ninth century. Alawites venerate Ali ibn Abi Talib, the...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

Community | Britannica". Moosa, Matti (1 February 1988). Extremist Shiites: The Ghulat Sects. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-2411-0. Baskel, Zekeriya...

enforced by later imams. Several traditions of al-Baqir are against the Ghulat (lit. 'exaggerators'. These often conferred divinity on Shia imams or had...