Isma'ilite

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• Ismāʿīlīte — ▪ Islamic sect       a sect of the Shīʿites (one of the major branches of Islām) that was most active as a religio political movement in the 9th–13th century through its subsects, the Fāṭimids, the Qarāmiṭah (Qarmatians), and the Assassins.… …   Universalium

• Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn al- — ▪ Persian scholar in full  Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al Ḥasan al Ṭūsī  born Feb. 18, 1201, Ṭūs, Khorāsān [now Iran] died June 26, 1274, Baghdad, Iraq       outstanding Persian philosopher, scientist, and mathematician.       Educated first in Ṭūs …   Universalium

• Shīʿite — ▪ Islam Introduction Arabic  Shīʿī,  collective  Shīʿah        member of the smaller of the two major branches of Islam, distinguished from the majority Sunnis (Sunnite). Early development       Early in the history of Islam, the Shīʿites were a… …   Universalium

• assassin — /euh sas in/, n. 1. a murderer, esp. one who kills a politically prominent person for fanatical or monetary reasons. 2. (cap.) one of an order of Muslim fanatics, active in Persia and Syria from about 1090 to 1272, whose chief object was to… …   Universalium

• Niẓām al-Mulk — orig. Abū ʽAlī Ḥasan ibn ʽAlī born с 1018/19, Ṭūs, Khorāsān, Iran died Oct. 14, 1092, Nahāvand Persian vizier of the Turkish Seljūq dynasty sultans. He worked for the rulers of the Ghaznavid dynasty before serving Alp Arslan as governor of… …   Universalium

• Ḥasan-e Ṣabbāḥ — ▪ Islamic religious leader died 1124, Daylam, Iran       leader of an Islamic sect, the Nizārī Ismāʿīlites, and commonly believed to be the founder of the order known as the Assassins (Assassin).       Ḥasan studied theology in the Iranian city… …   Universalium

• Arabia, history of — Introduction       history of the region from prehistoric times to the present.       Some time after the rise of Islam in the first quarter of the 7th century AD and the emergence of the Arabian (Arab) Muslims as the founders of one of the great …   Universalium

• Egypt — /ee jipt/, n. 1. Arab Republic of. a republic in NE Africa. 64,791,891; 386,198 sq. mi. (1,000,252 sq. km). Cap.: Cairo. Arabic, Misr. Formerly (1958 71), United Arab Republic. 2. an ancient kingdom in NE Africa: divided into the Nile Delta… …   Universalium

• Islāmic world — Introduction  prehistory and history of the Islamic community.       Adherence to Islām is a global phenomenon: Muslims predominate in some 30 to 40 countries, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and along a belt that stretches across northern… …   Universalium

• Islam — Islamic /is lam ik, lah mik, iz /, Islamitic /is leuh mit ik, iz /, adj. /is lahm , iz , is leuhm, iz /, n. 1. the religious faith of Muslims, based on the words and religious system founded by the prophet Muhammad and taught by the Koran, the… …   Universalium

• Fāṭimid dynasty — (909–1171) Ismāʽīli Shīʽite dynasty of North Africa and the Middle East. Its members traced their descent from Fātimah, a daughter of the Prophet Muhammad. As Shīʽite Muslims, they opposed the Sunnite caliphate of the Abbāsid dynasty, which they… …   Universalium