Ghayba or al-Ghayba ( ar, الغيبة, link=no, 'Occultation', 'Concealment') may refer to:
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Occultation (Islam)
Occultation ( ar, غَيْبَة, ') in Shia Islam refers to the eschatological belief that Mahdi, a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, has already been born and subsequently concealed, but will reemerge to establish justice and peace ...
, Shi'ite eschatological belief in the concealment and subsequent reemergence of an Imam or Mahdi, who will establish justice and peace on earth in the end of time
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Minor Occultation
The Minor Occultation ( ar, ٱلْغَيْبَة ٱلصُّغْرَىٰ, '), also known as the First Occultation ( ar, ٱلْغَيْبَة ٱلْأُولَىٰ, '), refers in Twelver Shia Islam to a period of nearly seventy years (874–941 CE, ...
, first period of concealment of the Imam (874–941) in Twelver Shi'ism, during which the twelfth and last Imam Muhammad al-Mahdi () is believed to have communicated regularly with his followers through four successive agents
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Major Occultation
In Twelver Shia Islam, the Major Occultation ( ar, ٱلْغَيْبَة ٱلْكُبْرَىٰ, ', 329 AH-present, 941 CE-present) is the second occultation of the Hidden Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi, which is expected to continue until his rise in ...
, second period of concealment of the Imam (941–present) in Twelver Shi'ism, during which the hidden Imam Muhammad al-Mahdi is believed to be without agent
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(al-Nu'mani), sometimes simply known as , a work on the occultation of Muhammad al-Mahdi by the Twelver Shi'ite scholar Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Nu'mani (died )
* (al-Tusi), sometimes simply known as , a work on the occultation of Muhammad al-Mahdi by the Twelver Shi'ite scholar
Shaykh Tusi
Shaykh Tusi ( fa, شیخ طوسی), full name ''Abu Jafar Muhammad Ibn Hassan Tusi'' ( ar, ابو جعفر محمد بن حسن طوسی), known as Shaykh al-Taʾifah ( ar, links=no, شيخ الطائفة) was a prominent Persian scholar of the ...
(995–1067)
See also
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Rajʿa ('return'), the concomitant concept of return after occultation
*, a work written in 1021 by the Druze leader
Hamza ibn Ali
Hamza ibn ‘Alī ibn Aḥmad ( ar, حمزة بن علي بن أحمد; 985 – c. 1021) was an 11th-century Ismaili missionary and founding leader of the Druze. He was born in Zozan in Greater Khorasan in Samanid-ruled Persia (modern Khaf, Ra ...
after the disappearance of the Fatimid Imam-caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (985–1021), announcing al-Hakim's occultation
*, a work written in 1042 by Hamza ibn Ali's pupil
Baha al-Din al-Muqtana
Abu'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Sammuqī ( ar, أبو الحسن علي بن أحمد السموقي), better known as Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-Muqtanā ( ar, بهاء الدين المقتنى; died after 1042), was an 11th-century Isma'ili mission ...
, announcing the suspension of Druze missionary activity due to the imminence of the end times
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