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| 1 | Nizaris |
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| 2 | Ismail bin Jafar |
| Ismail bin Jafar was the eldest son of the sixth Shia Imam, Jafar as-Sadiq. He died before his father, and this caused a split among the Shia. Those who believe that Ismail was the rightful sucessor to Jafar are known as Ismailis or (Seveners), while other Shias are known as Twelvers. The ... | |
| 3 | Hawza |
| Hawza is an academy or school of traditional Islamic studies. Traditionally, it is a term used in Shia Islam to represent Islamic academies ... | |
| 4 | Mohsen Kadivar |
| Mohsen Kadivar (محسن کدیور) is an Iranian Shia cleric and activist who was jailed for 15 months because of his writings ... | |
| 5 | Tabatabai |
| Tabatabai are one of the only few remaining families from the descendants of Hassan ibn Ali, the second imam of shias, populated majorly in Iran and Iraq ... | |
| 6 | Shi'a Islam |
| The Shia (it is advised not to write ‘Shiite’ or any such variation; write Shia Muslims (as...). Shia Muslims accept Ali, the son-in-law and cousin of the Prophet Muhammad, as the legal successor of... descendants of Ali as Imams, or spiritual successors of the Prophet. Shia Muslims live in all parts of ... | |
| 7 | Ali Adbul-Amir Allawi |
| Ali Allawi is the current Iraqi Minister of Trade, part of the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council in September 2003. A Shia Muslim, Allawi was part of the Iraqi exile community... Iraqi Shia," a statement released in 2002 ... | |
| 8 | 745 |
| Years: 741 742 743 744 - 745 - 746 747 748 749 Decades: 710s 720s 730s - 740s - 750s 760s 770s Centuries: 7th century - 8th century - 9th century Events Births November 10 - Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (d. 799) Deaths ... | |
| 9 | Hezbollah (disambiguation) |
| Hezbollah of Lebanon, a Shia political party with allegedly terrorist activities Hezbollah of Turkey, unrelated to the above, is a Kurdish Islamic Sunni group in Turkey Hezbollah is a political notion in Iran ... | |
| 10 | Khudayer Abbas |
| Khodayyir Abbas is the current Iraqi Minister of Health, part of the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council in September 2003. A Shia Muslim and surgeon, he is a member of the Daawa Party ... | |
| 11 | Nizari |
| A sub-sect of the Sevener Shia Muslim Ismaili sect. Nizaris differ from Mustaalids in that they believe that the successor-Imam to the Fatimid caliph al-Mustansir was his elder son Nizar, rather his younger son al-Mustaali ... | |
| 12 | Kazimain |
| city. The coordinates of Kazimain are 33.38 N, 44.34 E. It is a holy city in Shia Islam and is named after the seventh Shia Imam, Musa al-Kazim who is buried there, along with his grandson and the ninth Shia Imam, Muhammad at-Taqi. The area that now constitutes Kazimain was originally the location of a ... | |
| 13 | Ibrahim Mohamed Bahr al-Uloum |
| Ibrahim Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum (b. 1954) is the current Iraqi Minister of Oil, part of the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council in September 2003. A Shia Muslim, al-Ulloum is the son of Shia cleric Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum. al-Ulloum was educated in the United States, earning a ... | |
| 14 | 669 |
| second Shia Imam ... | |
| 15 | 766 |
| Years: 762 763 764 765 - 766 - 767 768 769 770 Decades: 730s 740s 750s - 760s - 770s 780s 790s Centuries: 7th century - 8th century - 9th century Events November 16 - Nicetas appointed Patriarch of Constantinople Births January 1 - Ali al-Rida, Shia Imam (d. 818) Deaths ... |