Umm al-kitab (Shi'i book)
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Umm al-kitab (Shi'i book)
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The Umm al-Kitāb is a syncretic Shi'i work originating in the ghulāt milieus of 8th-century Kufa (Iraq). It was later transplanted to Syria by the 10th-century Nusayris, whose final redaction of the work was preserved in a Persian translation produced by the Nizari Isma'ilis of Central Asia. The work only survives in Persian. It contains no notable elements of Isma'ili doctrine, but given the fact that Isma'ili authors starting from the 10th century were influenced by early ghulāt ideas such as
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Syncretic early Shi'i (ghulāt) work
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2024-02-04T16:10:13Z
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