The article dwells on the religious trends of the period referring to the governance of the Samanides and the Gaznevids i.e. Karmats and Ismailites. The author singles out two central problems: historic and political relations between Karmats and Ismailitesand political goals of these trends, on the one hand, the Samanides and the Gaznevids, on the other hand.
The author criticizes the points of view of many mediaeval and modern scholars who identify the sects of the Karmats and the Ismailites considering them as the successors of one and the same tenet.
Karmats, Ismailites, the Gaznevids, the Samanides, Islam, cultural-political life of X-th – XII-th centuries, sects
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