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Syed Aqeel Gharavi was born in Banaras, India, in 1964 but his whole family migrated to Najaf when he was very young. In Najaf, he got his primary education and after some years he went to India where he completed his secondary education from a college in Banaras.
Shia Ulema Council Pakistan formerly Tehreek-e-Jafaria Pakistan was a part of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal coalition of Islamist political parties that won 11.3% of the popular vote and 53 out of 272 seats in the legislative elections held on 20 October 2002.
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.
Ahlulbayt Television Network is the first exclusively English-language Shia Islamic television channel. [1] The channel was launched with much fanfare on Sky in the UK on 17 August 2009 and two months later on the Galaxy 19 platform covering North America from its London headquarters.
Pages in category "Shia media" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... IFilm (TV channel) K. Karbala TV; S. Salaam TV; Shafaqna
The Union of Muslim Ulama, which was unique because of its combined Sunni-Shia membership, strove to eliminate tensions between the two communities. For that reason, it organized mass rallies to propagate its views to the broadest audience possible. In 1987 the union was led by Shaykh Mahir Hammud (a Sunni) and Shaykh Zuhayr Kanj (a Shia).
The Shia clergy are the religious leaders of Shia Islam. Shia Islam places great importance on the guidance of clergy , and each branch of Shi'ism maintains its own clerical structure. The most well-known Shia clergy belongs to the largest branch of Shia Islam, Twelver Shi'ism .
Syed Sajid Ali Naqvi (Urdu: سید ساجد علی نقوی) is a Pakistani Shia Islamic scholar from Rawalpindi, Pakistan. He is the founder & leader of Islami Tehreek Pakistan also Patron-in-Chief of Shia Ulema Council. His main objective is to create an Islamic rule and has advocated for the rights of Shias in Pakistan. [1]