Musha'sha'
The Musha'sha' (also spelled Mosha'sha';
The Musha'sha' were founded and led by Muhammad ibn Falah, an Iraqi-born theologian who believed himself to be the earthly representative of Ali and the Mahdi. From the middle of the 15th century to the 19th century, they came to dominate much of western Khuzestan in southwestern Iran.
Beginning in 1436, Ibn Falah
Successors of Ibn Falah were in continual conflict with the
According to the order's Islamic eschatology, the Mahdi will appear at the end times in Yemen to lead the forces of good in a struggle against the forces of evil, who will be based in Syria and Greater Khorasan. The Musha‘sha’iyyah believed that the end times were imminent and that they would need to defeat the Safavids and gain control of Iran in order to fulfill the prophecy heralded by ibn Falah.
The Musha‘sha’iyyah gradually abandoned their heretical beliefs and were absorbed to mainstream Twelver Shī‘ah orthodoxy. Like other mystical Shī‘ah sects[
Unreferenced sources indicate that their rule ended towards the 19th century with the rise to power of the
See also
- List of Shi'a Muslim dynasties
References
- ^ a b Luft 1993, p. 673.
- ^ Bosworth 1996, p. 277.
- ^ Matthee 2015, p. 450.
- ^ Bosworth 1996, p. 279.
- ^ Britannica
- ^ a b c
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Sources
- ISBN 0-7486-2137-7.
- ISBN 978-90-04-09419-2.
- Matthee, Rudi (2015). "Relations between the Center and the Periphery in Safavid Iran: The Western Borderlands v. the Eastern Frontier Zone". The Historian. 77 (3): 431–463. S2CID 143393018.
Further reading
- Akopyan, A. V.; Mosanef, F. (2015). "The Coinage of the Mus̲h̲aʿs̲h̲aʿ" (PDF). Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society. 223: 13–20. ISSN 1818-1252.
- ISBN 978-1-933-82323-2.
- ISBN 978-0-857-73181-4.
- Sanikidze, George (2021). "The Evolution of the Safavid Policy towards Eastern Georgia". In Melville, Charles (ed.). Safavid Persia in the Age of Empires: The Idea of Iran. Vol. 10. London: I.B. Tauris. pp. 375–404.
- Borgomale, H. L. Rabino di (1950). "Coins of the Jalā'ir, Ḳara Ḳoyunlu, Musha'sha', and Āḳ Ḳoyūnlū dynasties". The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society. Sixth Series. 10 (37/38): 94–139. ISSN 0267-7504.