Footnotes

Sultan Sahak: Founder of the Ahl-i Haqq

by Matti Moosa


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1. Ivanow, Truth-Worshippers, 10.

2. See Frédéric Macler's note in Adjarian, "Gyorans et Thoumaris," 297 n. 1, 305; and Ivanow, Truth-Worshippers, 8, 9, n. 1, and 20.


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3. Ivanow, Truth-Worshippers, 8-9.

4. Ibid., 48-49, 51-53.

5. Ibid., 12, 125; Khan, "The Sect of Ahl-i Haqq (Ali Ilahis)," 31, 32, 38-39; Minorsky, Notes Sur la Secte des Ahlé-Haqq, 24; and al-Azzawi, al-Kaka'iyya fi al-Tarikh, 41.

6. Adjarian, "Gyorans et Thoumaris," 297.

7. Minorsky, Notes Sur la Secte des Ahlé-Haqq, 36; Khan, "The Sect of Ahl-i Haqq (Ali Ilahis)," 32; and Tadhkira, in Ivanow, Truth-Worshippers, 63.

8. Tadhkira, 62-66; Ivanow, Truth-Worshippers, 121; and Saranjarn, trans. Pittman, in "The Final Word of the Ahl-i Haqq," 159-60.

9. Khan, "The Sect of Ahl-i Haqq (Ali Ilahis)," 32; and Minorsky, Notes Sur la Secte des Ahlé-Haqq, 25.

10. Tadhkira, in Ivanow, Truth-Worshippers, 124.

11. Ivanow, Truth-Worshippers, 155.

12. Ibid.

13. Al-Kulayni, al-Usul min al-Kafi, 1:181-85. For more information on this subject, see chapter 9 of this book.

14. Tadhkira, in Ivanow, Truth-Worshippers, 124. For detailed information about Safi al-Din, his religious guide Zahid of Gilan, and the Safawi Order, see chapter 3 of this book.

15. Ibid., 130-31. Cf. Shah Nama-ye Haqiqat, 1:474-79.

16. Ivanow, Truth-Worshippers, 130-31.

17. For the question of whether Shaykh Safi al-Din was Shiite, see chapter 3 of this book.

18. Hasan Ibn Ali Muhammad al-Tabari, Kamil-i Baha-i, 7; and Ivanow, Truth-Worshippers, 25, 61-62.

19. Khan, "The Sect of Ahl-i Haqq (Ali Ilahis)," 32.

20. Tadhkira, in Ivanow, Truth-Worshippers, 144.

21. For more information see Ivanow, Truth-Worshippers, 57-69.

22. Amir, Habib al-Siyar, (1315/1897), 3:220 and 4:421; and al-Shaibi, al-Fikr al-Shi'i, 396. Cf. Ivanow, Truth-Worshippers, 170 n. 20.

23. Tadhkira, in Ivanow, Truth-Worshippers, 6, 37, 137, 146, 157, 170 n. 20; and Shah Nama-ye Haqiqat, 1:462-65, on Benyamin.

24. Minorsky, Notes Sur la Secte des Ahlé-Haqq, 12 and Tadhkira, in Ivanow, Truth-Worshippers, 167.

25. Tadhkira, in Ivanow, Truth-Worshippers, 167-68.

26. Ivanow, Truth-Worshippers, 13.

27. Minorsky, Notes Sur la Secte des Ahlé-Haqq, 19.

28. Khan, "The Sect of Ahl-i Haqq (Ali Ilahis)," 39.

29. Saranjam, trans. Pittman, in "The Final Word of the Ahl-i Haqq," 155-56; and Tadhkira, in Ivanow, Truth-Worshippers, 120.

30. Ivanow, Truth-Worshippers, 13.

31. Tadhkira, in Ivanow, Truth-Worshippers, 122.

32. I personally heard such stories from the Iraqi army commander at the city of Muhammara when I visited the battle front there in March 1981.

33. Ivanow, Truth-Worshippers, 122.

34. Tadhkira, in Ivanow, Truth-Worshippers, 137-38.

35. Ibid., 146. Cf. Shah Nama-ye Haqiqat, 1:534-35, on Muhammad Beg.

36. Tadhkira, in Ivanow, Truth-Worshippers, and Shah Nama-ye Haqiqat, 536-38.

37. Tadhkira, in Ivanow Truth-Worshippers, 13 and 168.

38. Ivanow, Truth-Worshippers, 37.

39. Ibid.


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40. Stead, "The Ali Ilahi Sect," 185.

41. Khan, "The Sect of Ahl-i Haqq (Ali Ilahis)," 34.


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