Ahmad al-Wafi
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Abū Aḥmad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl, was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the eight of the Isma'ili Imams, succeeding his father, Muhammad ibn Isma'il. Abd Allah traveled thr
House and Mausoleum of Abd Allah, Salamiyah
"Qabr Mubarak" Imam Abd Allah, Salamiyah
Mosque of Imam Abd Allah, Salamiyah, Syria, renovated by the Dawoodi Bohras
Qarmatians
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The Qarmatians were an Isma'ili Shia militant movement led by an Arabized dynasty of Persian descent. Claiming an Alid descent, the Qarmatians were centred in al-Ahsa in Eastern Arabia, where they est
Ahmad al-Wafi
…save the fact that his posterity was still living at the time of the Fatimid Imam–Caliph Abd Allah al-Mahdi Billah in Salamiyah and were slain by the Qarmatians in 290/902. Before dying in about 212/827–828, Abd Allah had designated his son Ahmad as his successor. Family tree of Muhammad…
Gold dinar minted by the Qarmatians during their occupation of Palestine in the 970s