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The mourning of Muharram (Arabic: عزاء محرم, romanized: ʿAzāʾ Muḥarram; Persian: عزاداری محرم, romanized: ʿAzādārī-i Muḥarram) is a set of religious rituals observed by Shia Muslims during the month of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar. These annual rituals commemorate the death of Husayn ibn Ali ...
Ashura is a day of mourning and grief for Shia Muslims. [20] [27] It was observed as such by their imams, [28] [29] [30] who also frequently encouraged the Shia community to follow suit. [31] For instance, a tradition attributed to the Shia imam Ali al-Rida (d. 818) describes Ashura as a day of grieving and somber resignation from material ...
Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani (Arabic: علي الحسيني السيستاني, romanized: ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Sīstānī; born 4 August 1930) is an Iranian-born Iraqi Islamic scholar. A Grand Ayatollah and marja, al-Sistani is considered the leading religious leader of Twelver Shia Muslims. Born in Mashhad to a sayyid family, al-Sistani ...
v. t. e. Islamic funerary found at the Domvs Romana in Rabat, Malta – c. 11th century. Funerals and funeral prayers in Islam (Arabic: جنازة, romanized: Janāzah) follow fairly specific rites, though they are subject to regional interpretation and variation in custom. In all cases, however, sharia (Islamic religious law) calls for burial ...
Shia Islam in the Americas. The Islamic Center of America, the largest and the oldest mosque (founded in 1963) in the US, located in Dearborn, Michigan [1] Memphis Al-Rasool Mosque, a Shia mosque in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. A 2009 survey by the Pew Research Center estimated that 10-13% of Muslims worldwide adhere to Shia Islam, with a ...
The slogan of the Houthi movement (officially called "Ansar Allah"), a Shia Islamist political and military organization in Yemen, reads "God Is the Greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel, A Curse Upon the Jews, Victory to Islam" (Arabic: الله أكبر, الموت لأمريكا, الموت لإسرائيل, اللعنة علی اليهود, النصر للإسلام, romanized ...
t. e. Shi‘a Islam, also known as Shi‘ite Islam or Shia, is the second largest branch of Islam after Sunni Islam. Shias adhere to the teachings of Muhammad and the religious guidance of his family (who are referred to as the Ahl al-Bayt) or his descendants known as Shia Imams. Muhammad's bloodline continues only through his daughter Fatima ...
Shia Islam. Shia Islam (/ ˈʃiːə /) or Shi'a Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib (656–661 CE) as his successor (Arabic: خليفة, romanized: khalifa) and the Imam (Arabic: امام, lit. 'spiritual and political leader') after him, most notably at the event ...