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...

Imamate and Wilayat, in Sunni doctrine Sayyid ul Sadaatiyya doctrine, under the household of Hazrat Ishaan (Dakik Family) Imamate in Shia doctrine, the...

to make Himself known. By verse 2:124, Shia believe that the position of Imamate is higher than prophethood. Shia believe that Imam is God's Witness for...

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The Imamate in Nizari Isma'ili doctrine (Arabic: إمامة) is a concept in Nizari Isma'ilism which defines the political, religious and spiritual dimensions...

result, the imamate often came to be passed down in hereditary fashion, especially as the Imams of Yemen abandoned Zaydi doctrines for Sunni ones in the 18th...

The doctrine of the Imamate in Isma'ilism differs from that of the Twelvers because the Isma'ilis had living Imams for centuries after the last Twelver...

untenable, so the notion of Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists (Velayat-e faqih) was derived by Ruhollah Khomeini. Imamate in Shia doctrine v t e v t e...

of time, reminiscent of the Isma'ili Shia. Kaysanites– who believed in the Imamate of Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah after the death of Husayn Ibn 'Ali Ibn...

إِمَامِيَّة), is the largest branch of Shīʿa, comprising about 85% of all Shīas. The term Twelver refers to its adherents' belief in twelve divinely ordained leaders...

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succession to Muhammad in Islam, the nature of the Imamate, the status of the twelfth Shia Imam, and other areas in which Shia Islam differs from Sunni...

Al Bahrani wrote on Twelver doctrine, affirmed free will, the infallibility of prophets and imams, the appointed imamate of `Ali, and the occultation...

the hereditary nature of imamate in al-Baqir's doctrine closed the field to outside claimants. Nass is often accompanied in Shia sources by inheritance...

different Shia groups developed different Imamate theories with the most popular current form alleging having 12 imams with the last one in occultation...

than political, imamate of al-Sadiq was accompanied by his teaching of the taqiya doctrine (religious dissimulation) to protect the Shia against prosecution...

Aghlabids in North Africa and a number of other victories, al-Mahdi Billah successfully established a Shia political state ruled by the Imāmate in 910.[non-primary...

Ghadir Khumm, following the revelation of verse 5:67 in the Quran. According to Twelver Shia doctrine, the subsequent rulers after Muhammad are considered...

been poisoned by the Umayyads. After his death, the mainstream Shia accepted the imamate of his eldest son, the equally quiescent Muhammad al-Baqir. Some...

(imam) of the supporters of Ali . Developed by the later Shia Imams, the Shia doctrine of Imamate explains that Muhammad was succeeded by Ali and then by...

in Yemen until the creation of Yemen Arab Republic in 1962. While the rulers ostensibly conformed to Hadawi law (thus the "imamate"), the doctrines had...

in person or more commonly in dreams and visions. The accounts of these encounters are popular among the Shia. The Shia literature about the doctrine...

Imamat, or belief in the divine guide, is a fundamental belief in the Twelver Shia doctrine and is based on the concept that God would not leave humanity...

(April 1893 – December 1963): In a Fatwa Sheikh Shaltut declared worship according to the doctrine of the Twelve Shia to be valid and recognized the...

in favor of al-Kazim, who spent the first ten years of his imamate under al-Mansur. This succession crisis nevertheless weakened the mainstream Shia,...

persecution of the Shias by the Sunnis. To protect themselves in times where their life were in jeopardy, Shias used the doctrine of Taqiyya and were...

rejects the Imamate in Shia doctrine. The ontology of the Ikhwan is based on Neo-Platonism, linking ideas to a higher reality than sensory things. In line with...

interpretations of the Quran to vindicate the imamate of al-Mahdi. In this period, possibly after 295 (908), Shia traditionists also settled the number of...

Occultation (Arabic: غَيْبَة, ghayba) in Shia Islam refers to the eschatological belief that the Mahdi, a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad,...

Shiism as built on the idea of the Imamate was to be replaced. However, neither the Sunni Ottomans nor the major Shia scholars of the time accepted his...