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Druze religious leader Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Ahmad al-Sammuqi ( Arabic : أبو الحسن علي بن أحمد السموقي , romanized : Abu al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Sammuqī ; 979 - died 1043), better known as Baha al-Din al-Muqtana ( Arabic : بهاء الدين المقتنى , romanized : Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-Muqtanā ), was an 11th-century Isma'ili missionary, and one of the founders of the Druze religion. His early life is obscure, but he may have been a Fatimid official. By 1020 he was one of the chief disciples of the founder of the Druze faith, Hamza ibn Ali . The disappearance of Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah , considered by the Druze to be the manifestation of God , in 1021, inaugurated a period of anti-Druze persecution. Al-Muqtana took over the leadership of the remnants of the Druze movement in 1027, and led the missionary activity (the " divine call ") of the widely scattered Druze communities until 1042, when he issued his farewell epistle ( Risālat al-Ghayba , 'Epistle of Occultation '), in which he announced his retirement and the closing of the divine call due to the imminence of the end times . The Druze have been a closed community ever since. Al-Muqtana's epistles comprise four of the six books of the Druze scripture, the Epistles of Wisdom .
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Baha'uddin 'Ali ibn Ahmad ibn ad-Dayf , also known as Al-Muqtana Baha'uddin , Baha'uddin al-Muqtana , Bahā'a ad-Dīn , Bahā'a ad-Dīn , Ali ibn Ahmad , Baha' al-Din , Ali ibn ad-Dayf , Ali b ad-Tai or Baha'u d-Din as-Samuqi (born 979 – died 1043 CE) was an 11th-century Ismaili , and founding leader of the Druze . He was born in a small village called Sammuqa near Aleppo in Syria and belonged to the Arab tribe of Tayy . Al-Muqtana is considered a founder of the Druze Faith , the primary exponent of the Divine call and author of several of the Epistles of Wisdom . The Tawhid Faith: Pioneers and their shrines .
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Al-Muqtaná Bahā' al-Dīn ( ), also known as al-Muqtaná Bahā' al-dīn ibn al-Hassan ʻAlī Aḥmad ( المقتنى بهاء الدين أبي الحسن علي بن أحمد ) or Baha' al-Din al-Samuqi (born 979 – died 1043) was an 11th-century Isma'ili , and founding leader of the Druze . He was born in a small village called Sammuqa near Aleppo in Syria and belonged to the Arab tribe of Tayy . Al-Muqtana is considered a founder of the Druze faith, the primary exponent of the divine call and author of several of the Epistles of Wisdom . The Tawhid Faith: Pioneers and their shrines .
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Abu'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Sammuqī ( ), better known as Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-Muqtanā ( ; died after 1042), was an 11th-century Isma'ili missionary, and one of the founders of the Druze religion.His early life is obscure, but he may have been a Fatimid official.By 1020 he was one of the chief disciples of the founder of the Druze faith, Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmad .The disappearance of Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah , considered by the Druze to be the manifestation of God , in 1021, inaugurated a period of anti-Druze persecution.Al-Muqtana took over the leadership of the remnants of the Druze movement in 1027, and led the missionary activity (the " divine call ") of the widely scattered Druze communities until 1042, when he issued his farewell epistle ( Risālat al-Ghayba , 'Epistle of Occultation '), in which he announced his retirement and the closing of the divine call due to the imminence of the end times .The Druze have been a closed community ever since.Al-Muqtana's epistles comprise four of the six books of the Druze scripture, the Epistles of Wisdom .
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “an 11th-century ismaili”. Today it says “an 11th-century isma'ili missionary”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Druze religious leader Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Ahmad al-Sammuqi ( Arabic : أبو الحسن علي بن أحمد السموقي , romanized : Abu al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Sammuqī ; 979 - died 1043), better known as”. It now reads “Druze religious leader Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Ahmad al-Sammuqi ( , ; 979 - died 1043), better known as”. Read the current article and compare.
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an 11th-century ismaili
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an 11th-century isma'ili missionary
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