Ahl al-Haq

The English translation of the Arabic terminology is People of the Truth. I came across them when I was skimming through Matti Moosa's book about the Ghulat groups. 


Ali Hussain left the following comment:

I’ve just come across another ghullat group based in Iran:

Ahl-i Haqq – People of the truth. Also known as Ali Ilahis, “deifiers of Ali.” Members of a sect centred in northwest Iran, incorporating certain Shi’i and Sufi ideas, associated with Sultan Sohak (fourteenth or fifteenth century). Believe in seven successive incarnations of God, hierarchy of angels, metempsychosis, no single primary scripture. Resemble Sufi dervishes in some practices, such as dhikr sessions, master-disciple relations, and initiation rites.

Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam

For further reading, 'the islamaili society' have written an article on them, scroll down to 'IV. An Ali-Ilahi Fragment, by W. Ivanow' http://www.ismaili.net/Source/0723.html