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Karmathians

LC control no.sh 85071658
LC classificationBP195.K3 BP195.K32
Topical headingKarmathians
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Variant(s)Carmathians
Ḳarāmiṭa
Ḳarmaṭīs
Qarāmiṭa
Qarmathians
See alsoIslamic sects
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Found inEncyclopedia of Islam, 2nd ed., Feb. 10, 2017 (Ḳarāmiṭa, Ḳarmaṭīs; Ismaili sect; originally reported to be followers of Ḥamdān Ḳarmaṭ, which was the basis for their name; active in the 9th century, at least until the 11th; located in Mesopotamia and eastern Arabia)
Crisis and Continuity at the Abbasid Court, 2013, via Google Books, Feb. 10, 2017 p. 16 footnote (Qarāmiṭa, sometimes called, the Carmathians in older scholarship; Ismaili group with considerable followers among the Bedouin of the Syrian desert and northwest Arabia in 899 AD)