ahmad al- ahsa'i

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Ahmad al- Ahsa'i

in full Shaykh Amad ibn Zayn al-Dn Ibrahim al-As born 1753, Al-Hasa, Arabia died 1826, near Medina Founder of the heterodox Shite Muslim Shaykh sect of Iran. He traveled widely in Persia and the Middle East. In 1808 he settled in Yazd, Persia, where he attracted followers with his interpretation of Shism. He claimed knowledge from visions of Muhammad and the imams and contended that the imams were originally beings of divine light who participated in the creation of the world. Orthodox Shite theologians declared him an apostate in 1824; he died two years later on pilgrimage to Mecca, but the Shaykh sect survived him