ابتداء أمر القرامطة

ابتداء أمر القرامطة

278 ھ

In 278 AH al-Tabari records the beginning of the affair of the Qarmatians. It began when a man came from the Khuzestan region to the Sawad of Kufa; he showed asceticism and settled at a place called al-Nahrayn, then he told those who sat with him that he was calling to an imam of the Family of the Prophet ¹. According to al-Mas'udi, a Qarmati appeared in Syria in 289 AH and fought wars with Tughj and the armies of the Egyptians; al-Muktafi went out to al-Raqqa, the Qarmatians were taken in 291, and Dhikrawayh ibn Mihrawayh fell upon the pilgrims in 294 until he was killed and brought into Madinat al-Salam ²