Baqliyya - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Baqliyya - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Halm, Heinz

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060918
Doc. NO	:	ALei1315
Main Entry	:	Halm, Heinz
Title & Author	:	Baqliyya - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Halm, Heinz
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(353 words)
Abstract	:	The Baqliyya was an extremist Shīʿī, probably Carmathian (Qarmaṭī), sect mentioned in Iraq in early ʿAbbāsid times. The Kitāb al-aghānī of Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī (d. 356/967) mentions a figure from the time of the caliph al-Manṣūr (r. 136–58/754–75), a boon companion of the heretic ʿAbdallāh b. Muʿāwiya, a certain al-Baqlī (whose name derived from Arabic baql , “vegetables, greens”), who held that “mankind is like the vegetable: when it dies it never comes back” (Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī 11:231). This
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1315.pdf