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Wahhabi clerics consider the celebration of the Muhammad's birthday inconsistent with Islam. Most Sunnis and Shias disagree. [5] The idea originated with the government of the Islamic republic of Iran. [6] Every year, the Islamic republic of Iran holds an international conference of Shia and Sunni scholars and other Muslim participants.
According to a CIA 2018 study, Lebanese Sunni Muslims constitute an estimated 30.6% of Lebanon's population. [2] The Lebanese Sunni Muslims are highly concentrated in Lebanon's capital city - Beirut (West Beirut /or Beirut II), as well as Tripoli, Sidon, Western Beqaa, and in the countryside of the Akkar, Arsal.
The Lebanese Druze constitute 5% [20] of the population and can be found primarily in Mount Lebanon and the Shouf District. Under the Lebanese political division (Parliament of Lebanon Seat Allocation) the Druze community is designated as one of the five Lebanese Muslim communities (Sunni, Shia, Druze, Alawi, and Ismaili).
Many authorities supported the fatwa, including the secretary general of the Lebanese Ummah Movement, Abdul Nasser Al-Jabri; the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, Hammam Saeed; [27] [28] Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umri; [29] Sheikh Maher Mezher, the head of the Sunni society to support the resistance in Lebanon; [30] secretary general of ...
Shia day of Celebration: Birth of Abbas, 36 A.H. According to some scholars on 4th Shabaan 9 Rajab March 6, 2020 Shia day of Celebration: Birth of Janab E Ali Asghar 10 Rajab March 7, 2020 Shia day of Celebration: Birth of Imam Mohammad Taqi, 195 A.H. 13 Rajab: March 10, 2020 Shia day of Celebration: Birth of Imam Ali Public holiday in Iran: 13 ...
Mawlid (Arabic: مولد) also known as Eid-e-Milad an-Nabi (Arabic: عید ميلاد النبي, romanized: ʿīd mīlad an-nabī, lit. 'feast of the birth of the prophet') is an annual festival commemorating the birthday of the Islamic prophet Muhammad on the traditional date of 12 Rabi' al-Awwal, the third month of the Islamic calendar.
Here’s what to know about when, how, and by whom Nowruz, also known as Persian New Year, is celebrated—as well as how it began about 3,000 years ago.
Relations between Iran and Lebanon have historical roots that precede the establishment of modern Lebanon. In the 16th century, the Safavid dynasty adopted Shiism as the official religion, deviating from the prevailing Sunni Islam in the region, enlisted Shiite clerics from Jabal Amel, a region in south Lebanon which already had a Shiite community established since the 11th century, to promote ...