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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.
Shia Islam (/ ˈʃiːə /) is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib (656–661 CE) as his successor (Arabic: خليفة, romanized:khalifa) as Imam (Arabic: امام, lit. 'spiritual and political leader'), most notably at the event of Ghadir Khumm, but that after the Prophet ...
Shia Islam originated as a response [citation needed] to questions of Islamic religious leadership which became manifest as early as the death of Muhammad in 632 CE. The issues involved not only whom to appoint as the successor to Muhammad, but also what attributes a true successor should have.
6 dni temu · Shi’i, member of the smaller of the two major branches of Islam, the Shi’ah, distinguished from the majority Sunnis and characterized especially by the belief that the spiritual and political leadership of the Muslim community was designated to pass through the lineage of Ali, Muhammad’s cousin and son-in-law.
28 wrz 2024 · Islamic world - Sunnis, Shiites, Sects: The historicists came to be known as Sunnis and their main opponents as Shīʿites. These labels are somewhat misleading because they imply that only the Sunnis tried to follow the Sunnah of Muhammad. In fact, each group relied on the Sunnah but emphasized different elements.
29 wrz 2017 · Every tenth day of the Islamic hijri calendar, the same scenes of mourning, sorrow and self-flagellation are repeated by Shiite Muslims across the globe: men beating themselves with chains; others slapping their bare chests in a powerful rhythm; bodies bleeding; women weeping; and crowds chanting.
For most of their early history the Shiites lived as a persecuted Muslim minority scattered throughout the Islamic lands. In the tenth century c.e., however, the Shiites briefly gained political control of almost all the Muslim world, with each part ruled by one Shiite group or another.
