Coming Back for More, Part XII: Mushegh Asatryan on Early Islamic Reincarnationism among the Ghulāt
The Iraqi Shiite movements known as the <em<ghulāt or ‘extremists’ held many ‘extreme’ theological and cosmological views, none more so than their belief in cyclical reincarnation into a range of entities from rocks to exalted superhuman entities. Mushegh Asatryan is our guide as we explore the texts of the earliest reincarnationists of the Believers' movement.
