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Author Mai Mohammed Al Khalifa's historical account, The Qarmatians From Concept to State, is a fascinating reinvestigation of 7th-10th century Islamic and Middle East history in Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Bahrain. Until recently, Bahrainis referred to their madhab (religious school) and self-identified as 'Abu Sa'idis' in reference to Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi (d. 913 CE), founder of the independent Qarmatian state in Bahrain, based on principles of 'brotherly love' camaraderie that provided the world with a unique political and socio-economic model of Islam for a century-and-a-half (ca.…mehr

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Author Mai Mohammed Al Khalifa's historical account, The Qarmatians From Concept to State, is a fascinating reinvestigation of 7th-10th century Islamic and Middle East history in Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Bahrain. Until recently, Bahrainis referred to their madhab (religious school) and self-identified as 'Abu Sa'idis' in reference to Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi (d. 913 CE), founder of the independent Qarmatian state in Bahrain, based on principles of 'brotherly love' camaraderie that provided the world with a unique political and socio-economic model of Islam for a century-and-a-half (ca. 899-1078 CE).Most frequently remembered for their bands of fast-roving horsemen committed to a Spartan, desert code and Abu Tahir al-Jannabi's (d. 944 CE) infamous seizure of the hajar al-aswad ('black stone') from the ka'bah in Mecca, the Qarmatians merit serious, dispassionate academic consideration for the viable state and equitable human society evolved under Hamdan Qarmat in al-Kufah and Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi in Bahrain. Their mode of living presaged vital concerns of our era including: socialization of wealth and means of production; gender-equality; group-/ democratic decision making (under the Islamic principle of shura); and abolition of private property, in a system of social status and merit according to ethical conduct and service to community. This uniquely Bahraini perspective raises the provocative possibility that the political-and socio-economic model of the Qarmatians might have been closer than anything under the Umayyads or 'Abbasids to the original Islam and initial dar al-hijrah ('house of emigration') of the first Muslim community established by the Prophet Muhammad in Medina (Yathrib) between 622-632 CE.Author Mai Mohammed Al Khalifa, historian and founder of the Shaikh Ebrahim bin Mohammed Al-Khalifa Center for Culture & Research, is the Chairperson of the Board of the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage and the Minister of Culture of Bahrain.
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Mai Mohammed Al Khalifa, historian and founder of the Shaikh Ebrahim bin Mohammed Al-Khalifa Center for Culture and Research, is the Chairperson of the Board of the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage and the Minister of Culture of Bahrain. Her published works include: 'Abdullah bin Ahmad: Indefatigable Warrior (2012); Muhammad bin Khalifa: the Legend and the History (1996, 2000); Charles Belgrave, Biography and Memoirs (2000); From the Sawad of al-Kufah to Bahrain: the Qarmatians, from Concept to State (1999); One-hundred Years of Formal Education in Bahrain, the Early Years of the Establishment (1999); Sabzabad and the Men of the Bahiyah State (1998); and, Ibrahim bin Muhammad Al Khalifa, Sheikh of the Literati of Bahrain (1993).Abdullah Richard Lux, professor of Arabic and Islamic studies, is former Director of Translation at the Centre for Arab Unity Studies (CAUS) in Beirut and previous Executive Editor of Contemporary Arab Affairs (Routledge, UK).