الموروث اللامادي الإسماعيلي في مجال كتامة الدعوة : قاعدة إيكجان و أحوازها أنموذجا

Abstract EN

The coming of Obeid Allah, the Shiite, to the lands of Kutama in the year 280 AH /893 CE falls within the new strategy that the Ismaili movement has adopted, displacing their activities into the surroundings of the empire, after being oppressed by the Abbasid caliphs in the Orient.

He had stepped up his effort, until he established the Fatimid caliphate in the year 296AH/ 909AD.

The new politics required the Ismaili da'i to move with his full weight to Ifriqiya.

However, the length of his stay in the area of Ikjan, and his direct contact with its inhabitants, left a clear imprint on many of its revenues and behaviors, the sedimentation of which extended for many centuries.

Within the above context, the present research paper investigates the social dimension of the local history of the Kutama tribe.

It seeks to dive into the depths of the Ismaili immaterial heritage in the region of Ikjan terms of its origins, aspects, current situation, and the levels of local interaction with it, based on the oral tradition, aspects of popular culture, as well as Shiite and Sunni historical texts.