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...
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Alawites (category Ghulat 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, the...
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Ghulat Ajib (Arabic: غوله عجيب) is a sub-district located in Raydah District, 'Amran Governorate, Yemen. Hamadah had a population of 4770 according to...
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Ja'far al-Sadiq (section Ghulat)
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...
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Abd Allah ibn Saba' (category Ghulat leaders)
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...
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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:...
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Umar, Uthman ibn Affan and their followers. Anthropotheism Goran Kurds Ghulat Kurdish people Yarsanism Woulfe Sheil, Lady Mary Leonora; Sheil, Sir Justin...
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Community | Britannica". Moosa, Matti (1 February 1988). Extremist Shiites: The Ghulat Sects. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-2411-0. Norman H. Gershman...
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Al-Mufaddal ibn Umar al-Ju'fi (category Ghulat leaders)
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...
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Reincarnation (section Ghulat sects)
reincarnation is accepted by a few heterodox sects, particularly of the Ghulat. Alawites hold that they were originally stars or divine lights that were...
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