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  2. Shia Islam - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Twelver Shi'ism - Wikipedia

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    Nikāḥ al-Mut'ah, Nikah el Mut'a (Arabic: نكاح المتعة, also Nikah Mut'ah literally, "marriage of pleasure"), [182] or sighah, is a fixed-time marriage which, according to the Usuli Shia schools of Shari'a (Islamic law), is a marriage with a preset duration, after which the marriage is automatically dissolved. It has many conditions ...

  4. List of Shia dynasties - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of Shia Muslim dynasties. North Africa and Europe. Idrisid dynasty (788–985 CE) — - Zaīd ī [1] (disputed) ...

  5. History of Shia Islam - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  6. Twelver theology - Wikipedia

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    According to Islam, every choice of an orientation, ideal or a spiritual qibla is a kind of worship. He adds that Tawhid in practice is the individual's growing unified through worship of God alone by means of rejecting all kinds of counterfeit worship (such as worship of carnal desires, money or prestige) and in society's growing unified ...

  7. Imamate in Shia doctrine - Wikipedia

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    In Shia Islam, the Imamah (Arabic: إمامة) is a doctrine which asserts that certain individuals from the lineage of the Islamic prophet Muhammad are to be accepted as leaders and guides of the ummah after the death of Muhammad.

  8. Imamate in Twelver doctrine - Wikipedia

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    In Shia Islam, the figure of imam dominates the belief system. [9] Necessarily a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad , [ 10 ] imam is the supreme leader that combines both temporal and religious authorities, [ 11 ] for the two were combined in Muhammad. [ 12 ]

  9. Origin of Shia Islam - Wikipedia

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    Shiism began for the first time with a reference made to the partisans of Ali the first leader of the Ahl al-Bayt (Household of the prophet). [8] In the early years of Islamic history there was no "orthodox" Sunni or "heretical" Shiite, but rather of two points of view that were drifting steadily until became manifest as early as the death of Muhammad the prophet of Islam.