Kaysaniyya

الكيسانية

Draft card for the Kaysaniyya, the early Shi'i sect that held to the imamate of Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah after al-Husayn; treated in the cited heresiography, the page not yet checked.

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Era
The Umayyad Period
Region
Levant & Iraq
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People and things also explored

Alevism· Ibadiyya· The Ismaili Da'wa· The Ja'fari school· Zaydiyya· Al-Kadhimiya Mosque (Kazimayn shrine)· Imam Husayn Shrine, Karbala· Ahl al-Ahwa (the people of deviant opinions in Islam, and the rules on their testimony, narration and prayer behind them)

Sources

  • Maqalat al-Islamiyyin, al-Ash'ari (ed. Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid)
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islam.museum contributors. “Kaysaniyya”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/group/kaysaniyya/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.

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Alevism

Alevism is an Anatolian religious-cultural current centred on devotion to Ali and the ahl al-bayt; scholars distinguish its modern formation as a category from its roots in the ghulat and Nusayri currents treated by the classical heresiographies.