Qasimiyya (Zaydi)
A living tradition within Zaydi Shia Islam. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Qasimiyya (Zaydi) is a living tradition within Zaydi Shia Islam. Also written Qāsemīya, Hadawi line (through al-Hadi).
Origin
No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. The Zaydi legal community adhering to the doctrine of al-Qasim b. Ibrahim al-Rassi (d. 246/860), whose followers spread Zaydism in western Tabaristan - Ruyan, Kalar and Chalus - during his lifetime, and which Encyclopaedia Iranica identifies as the school 'which had been adopted by the Zaydīs in Rūyān and eastern Daylamān' before al-Utrush's converts formed the Nasiriyya. Its transmission into Yemen is recorded in the same article: al-Qasim's grandson Yahya al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq was 'the founder of the Zaydī imamate in the Yemen', and al-Hadi's own grandson 'transmitted his ancestor's legal doctrine among the Caspian Zaydīs'. The Yemeni Zaydi mainstream therefore descends from this line rather than from a separate origin. No founder is listed: al-Qasim is the eponym and doctrinal authority, and the article does not describe him founding a community under this name. No founding year is asserted.
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Citation
English
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John Shaqi. “Qasimiyya (Zaydi).” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-qasimiyya-zaydi.
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}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.