Al-Mufaddal ibn Umar al-Ju'fi
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Al-Mufaddal ibn Umar al-Ju'fi
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Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʿUmar al-Juʿfī, died before 799, was an early Shi'i leader and the purported author of a number of religious and philosophical writings. A contemporary of the Imams Ja'far al-Sadiq and Musa al-Kazim (745–799), he belonged to those circles in Kufa whom later Twelver Shi'i authors would call ghulāt ('exaggerators') for their 'exaggerated' veneration of the Imams. As a money-changer, al-Mufaddal wielded considerable financial and political power. He was likely also r
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8th-century Shi'i ghulat leader
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2024-04-13T14:18:14Z
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