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Lebanese Shiite Muslims (Arabic: المسلمون الشيعة اللبنانيون), communally and historically known as matāwila (Arabic: متاولة, plural of متوال mutawālin; [2] pronounced as متوالي metouali or matawali in Lebanese Arabic [3]), are Lebanese people who are adherents of Shia Islam in Lebanon, which plays a major role alongside Lebanon's main Sunni, Maronite ...
Lebanese Shia clerics (17 P) F. Lebanese former Shia Muslims (3 P) Pages in category "Lebanese Shia Muslims" The following 112 pages are in this category, out of 112 ...
Islam in Lebanon has a long and continuous history. According to an estimate by the CIA, it is followed by 69.3% of the country's total population, up from about 30% of population in 1950s (excluding Druzes). [3] Sunnis make up 31.9%, [4] Twelver Shia make up 32%, [5] next to smaller percentages of other Shia branches, such as Alawites and ...
Lebanon is an eastern Mediterranean country that has the most religiously diverse society within the Middle East, recognizing 18 religious sects. [2] [3] The recognized religions are Islam (Sunni, Shia, Alawites, and Isma'ili), Druze, Christianity (the Maronite Church, the Greek Orthodox Church, the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, evangelical Protestantism, the Armenian Apostolic Church, the ...
According to a CIA 2018 study, Lebanese Sunni Muslims constitute an estimated 30.6% of Lebanon's population. [1] 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.
Adham Khanjar – Lebanese national hero; Mohammad Zgheib – 1948 Arab–Israeli War war hero; Hisham Jaber – former military governor of Beirut; Imad Mughniyah – former head of Hezbollah's external security apparatus; Sana'a Mehaidli – Lebanese martyr; Samir Kuntar – Lebanese militant and a former member of the Palestine Liberation Front
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El-Assaad or Al As'ad (Arabic: الأسعد) is an Arab feudal political family who originated from Najd and is a main branch of the Anizah tribe. [1] Unrelated to Syrian or Palestinian al-Assads, the El-Assaad dynasty that ruled most of South Lebanon for three centuries and whose lineage defended the local people of the Jabal Amel (Mount Amel) principality – today southern Lebanon – for ...