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WikiShia provides the visitors and readers with information about Shia's twelve Imams and their families as well as the political, social and cultural aspects of their lives. [4] The aim, as is mentioned in the About Page, [ 5 ] is to explain all concepts and issues related to knowing Twelver Shia (Imamiya) (including issues in history ...
ʿAlī Ḥusaynī Sīstānī (Persian: علی حسینی سیستانی; Arabic: علي الحسيني السيستاني; born 4 August 1930) is an Iranian Islamic scholar and the dean of the Hawza of Najaf in Iraq. A Grand Ayatollah and marja, Sistani is considered one of the leading religious leaders of Twelver Shia Muslims. Sistani has been ...
Twelver Shia Muslims commemorate significant events in the lives of their Imams throughout the year. These commemorations, known as ma'ātem, are observed according to the Islamic lunar calendar ().
Portal:Shia Islam/DYK/10 ... that Sheikh Morteza Ansari 's Makasib , authored more than 150 years ago, is still taught in Shia seminaries? ...that according to the research of Zameer Akhtar Naqvi , the letter dispatched in the 61 Hijra by Hussain ibn Ali to the King of Rajasthan is still preserved with the royal family of Rajasthan presently ...
Shia Islam [a] is the second-largest branch of Islam.It holds that Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib (r. 656–661) as his successor (khalifa) as the imam, that is the spiritual and political leader of the Muslim community.
The Four Deputies (Arabic: ٱلنُّوَّاب ٱلْأَرْبَعَة, an-Nuwwāb al-ʾArbaʿah) were the four individuals who are believed by the Twelvers to have successively represented their twelfth Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi, during his Minor Occultation (874–941 CE).
The weakness of the Abbasid regime allowed the creation of a number of Shi'a regimes in the remoter corners of the Islamic world, such as the Zaydi states in Tabaristan (in 864) and Yemen (in 897), [5] but most notably, it provided the opportunity for the massive spread of the clandestine millennialist Isma'ili missionary movement, which gave birth to the Qarmatians and the Fatimid Caliphate.
[6] [17] [note 4] The Lingayats always wear the ishtalinga held with a necklace. [ 17 ] [ web 1 ] The istalinga is made up of a small blue-black stone coated with fine durable thick black paste of cow dung ashes mixed with some suitable oil to withstand wear and tear.