Ghiyath al-Din al-Ghuri quits the Karramiyya

فارق غياث الدين الغوري مذهب الكرامية

c. 1199 CE · 596 AH

Ghazna

Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad, lord of Ghazna and half of Khurasan, quit the Karramiyya — the creed his house had long carried till they were known by it — for the Sunna, then drove the Karramis from his lands and ordered them killed 1.

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119012001210 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

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Ghazna

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Summary

Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad al-Ghuri, lord of Ghazna and of part of Khurasan, left the Karramiyya school, which he had followed for a long time, and turned to the Sunni school. He then began ordering the Karramiyya to be killed and expelled from his lands. 1

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  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 264
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