Editing Ismailism (section)

===The Qarmatians===
{{Main|Qarmatians}}
While many of the Isma'ili were content with the Da'i teachings, a group that mingled Persian nationalism and [[Zoroastrianism]] surfaced known as the Qarmatians. With their headquarters in [[Bahrain]], they accepted a young Persian former prisoner by the name of [[Abu'l-Fadl al-Isfahani]], who claimed to be the descendant of the Persian kings<ref name="autogenerated123">{{cite book |title=Imagining the End: Visions of Apocalypse |author=Abbas Amanat, Magnus Thorkell |page=123}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Women and the Fatimids in the World of Islam |page=26 |author=Delia Cortese, Simonetta Calderini}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Early Philosophical Shiism: The Ismaili Neoplatonism |author=Abū Yaʻqūb Al-Sijistānī |page=161}}</ref><ref name="autogenerated2">{{cite book |title=The Other God: Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy |author=Yuri Stoyanov}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Classical Islam: A History, 600–1258 |page=113 |author=Gustave Edmund Von Grunebaum}}</ref> as their Mahdi, and rampaged across the Middle-East in the tenth century, climaxing their violent campaign by stealing the [[Black Stone]] from the [[Kaaba]] in [[Mecca]] in 930 under [[Abu Tahir al-Jannabi]]. Following the arrival of the Al-Isfahani, they changed their [[qibla]] from the [[Kaaba]] in [[Mecca]] to the Zoroastrian-influenced fire. After their return of the Black Stone in 951 and a defeat by the Abbasids in 976 the group slowly dwindled off and no longer has any adherents.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/islam/shia/qarma.html |title=Qarmatiyyah |access-date=2007-04-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070428055134/http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/islam/shia/qarma.html |archive-date=28 April 2007 }}</ref>