the ghulāt have at times been compared to those of the late antique gnostics, but the extent of this similarity has also been questioned. Some ghulāt ideas...

imam seem to have appeared first among the ghulāt. Heinz Halm records him as a representative of a Ghulat group from the city of Seleucia-Ctesiphon (al-Madā'in)...

regarded by the members of other ghulāt sects such as the Mukhammisa, and several of the writings attributed to him contain ghulāt ideas. He was even accused...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

refer to: Umm al-Kitab (Shi'i book), a syncretic Shi'i work originating in ghulāt circles and preserved in the Isma'ili tradition al-Fatiha, the first Surah...