Mokanna.

Mokanna. HAKIM BEN ATTAH, called AL-MOKANNA, 'The Veiled,' was the founder of a sect in Khorassan, who first appeared in the 8th century, during the reign of Almahdi, the third Abasside calif. He commenced his career as a soldier. In a fight, an arrow pierced one of his eyes, and in order to hide this deformity he henceforth constantly wore a veil, a habit attributed by his followers to the necessity of shrouding from the eye of the beholder the dazzling rays which issued from his divine countenance. Mokanna set himself up as an incarnation of God. Among other miracles, he is said to have caused a moon or moons to issue from a deep well. Mokanna found many adherents, and his little band increased so that ere long he was able to seize upon several fortified places. But Almahdi marched against him, and after a long siege took his stronghold of Kash (780 A.D.), when, together with the remnant of his army, the veiled one took poison.