# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/al-muqtana-baha-uddin
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:47:00.324Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/al-muqtana-baha-uddin"
name: "Al-Muqtana Baha'uddin"
slug: "al-muqtana-baha-uddin"
description: "Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Ahmad al-Sammuqi, better known as Baha al-Din al-Muqtana, was an 11th-century Isma'ili missionary, and one of the founders of the Druze religion. His early life is obscure, but he may have been a Fatimid official. By 1020 he was one of the chief disciples of the founder of the Druze faith, Hamza ibn Ali. The disappearance of Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, considered by the Druze to be the manifestation of God, in 1021, inaugurated a period of anti-Druze persecution. Al-Muqtana took over the leadership of the remnants of the Druze movement in 1027, and led the missionary activity of the widely scattered Druze communities until 1042, when he issued his farewell epistle, in which he announced his retirement and the closing of the divine call due to the imminence of the end times. The Druze have been a closed community ever since. Al-Muqtana's epistles comprise four of the six books of the Druze scripture, the Epistles of Wisdom."
tagline: "11th-century Ismaili, and founding leader of the Druze"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shrine_of_Baha'_ad-Din%2C_in_Beit_Jann.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "979"
deathDate: "1043"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.46
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.491794666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Baha al-Din al-Muqtana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "المقتنى بهاء الدين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "المقتنى بهاء الدين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "المقتنیٰ بہاء الدین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "בהאא א-דין"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A2edd%C3%AEn_el-Mukten%C3%A2"
    title: "Bahâeddîn el-Muktenâ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4702959"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump