Abū l-Qāsim Khān Kirmānī Ibrāhīmī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Lawson, Todd
Leiden
Brill
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Abū l-Qāsim b. Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn Khān Kirmānī Ibrāhīmī (1897-1969) was the fifth leader of the Iranian Shīʿī esoteric movement founded by Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsāʾī (1166-1241/1753-1826) known eponymously as the Shaykhiyya. He bore the honorifics Ḥājj and Sarkār Aqā ("lord and chief"), was known mainly by the latter. He was born in Kirmān on 23 Dhū l-Ḥijja 1314/25 May 1897. In 1360/1942 he acceded without conflict or complaint to the leadership of this quietist, inward-looking Shīʿī religious madhhab (religious school),