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Imam (/
ɪˈmɑːm/; Arabic: إمام,
imām; pl.: أئمة, a'immah) is an
Islamic leadership position. For **** Muslims,
Imam is most
commonly used as the
title of...
- says that
Imams possess divine knowledge and
authority (Ismah) as well as
being part of the Ahl al-Bayt, the
family of Muhammad.
These Imams have the role...
- The
Twelve Imams (Arabic: ٱلْأَئِمَّة ٱلْٱثْنَا عَشَر, al-ʾAʾimmah al-ʾIthnā ʿAšar; Persian: دوازده امام, Davâzdah Emâm) are the
spiritual and political...
- al-Mahdī) is
believed by the
Twelver Shia to be the last of the
Twelve Imams and the
eschatological Mahdi, who will
emerge in the end of time to establish...
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Twelver Shias, the
Mahdi is
believed to be
Imam Muhammad al-Mahdi,
twelfth Imam, son of the
eleventh Imam,
Hasan al-Askari (d. 874), who is said to be...
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Rashidun caliph who
ruled from 656 CE to 661, as well as the
first Shia
imam. He was the
cousin and son-in-law of the
Islamic prophet Muhammad. Born to...
- n**** (divinely
inspired designation of each
Imam by the
previous Imam) and isma (the
infallibility of the
Imams), as well as that of
taqiya (religious dissimulation...
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Imam Hasan al-Askari (c. 846–874), the
eleventh Shia
Imam Hasan al-Basri (c. 642–728),
early and
influential Islamic scholar from
Basra (Iraq)
Imam H****an...
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Imam Shamil (Arabic: الشيخ شامل, romanized: al-Šaykh Šāmil; Avar: Шейх Шамил, romanized: Sheykh Shamil; Chechen: имам Шемал, romanized:
imam Shemal; Kumyk:...
- The
Imams of Yemen,
later also
titled the
Kings of Yemen, were
religiously consecrated leaders (
imams)
belonging to the
Zaidi branch of Shia Islam. They...
