Interesting article from 2000 by Patricia Crone about groups of essentially anarchist Muslims from southern Iraq in the ninth century.

Famous 9th Century Muslim scholar and Mu'tazilite, Al-Kindi
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9th Century Muslim Anarchists.pdf
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