Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity among the Daudi Bohras, Jonah Blank, pp. 26, University of Chicago Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-226-05676-0, ... A more dangerous source of confusion, in the early years at least, was that of the ghulats. The term ghulat (exaggerator) was coined by early Shia as a label of abuse for extremists who pushed the envelope of devotion to the imams past the limits of Islamic orthodoxy ...