two major sects, Sunni and Shia Islam, each with its own sub-sects. Large numbers of Shia Arab Muslims live in some Arab countries including Lebanon...

Shia Islam is practiced by a minority of Muslims in the United Arab Emirates. It is also practiced among expatriate Muslim communities living in the country...

Turkey and among Muslims in the United States. Shia Muslims make up approximately 10-13% of the world Muslim population. Within Shia Islam about 85% are...

the CIA World Factbook estimated that Shia Muslims constitute 31.2% of Lebanon's population in 2022. Between 1921 and 1988, Shiites maintained the highest...

Shia Muslims. In the Americas, Pew estimated a population of just under 4.6 million Muslims overall in 2009, with a small portion of those being Shia...

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among Muslims globally, followed by Bengalis and Punjabis. Likewise, they comprise the majority of the population of the Arab world. Although Arabs account...

The following is a list of notable Shia Muslims. Ali ibn Ridwan – Egyptian Muslim physician, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher Haider Alhassen Al-ʻIjliyyah...

for the breakdown between Sunni and Shia Muslims among noncitizen residents, media estimates suggest less than 20 percent of the noncitizen Muslim population...

community, Twelver Shias form the majority of the population in the countries of Iran, Iraq, Bahrain, Azerbaijan, half the Muslims in Lebanon, and substantial...

memory. Shia Islam is followed by 10–15% of all Muslims. Although there are many Shia subsects in the Muslim world, Twelver Shi'ism is by far the largest...

is the majority and official religion in the United Arab Emirates, professed by 74.5% of the population as of 2020. 63.3% are Sunni, 6.7% are Shia, while...

number of Muslims in the world. The majority of India's Muslims are Sunni, with Shia making up around 15% of the Muslim population. Islam spread in Indian...

funding, Shia Islam is openly and freely demonised and Shia Muslims are oppressed in the country, their prayers and gatherings are broken up, and the state...

Circassians. Upwards of 99% of Israel's Muslims are Sunnis and the remainder are Ahmadis. Despite Shias constituting the second-largest Islamic sect, there...

of Shia groups. Gujarati Muslims are very prominent in industry and medium-sized businesses and there is a very large Gujarati Muslim community in Mumbai...

different traditions. As in the rest of the world, the Sunni Muslims are in the majority. Shia Muslims, especially those in the Iranian immigrant community...

part of Islam in Iran and continue today when Ayatollah Khomeini also called for unity between Sunni and Shia Muslims. Sunni Muslims are the second-largest...

who moved the capital of the early caliphate from Medina to Kufa (or Najaf) two decades after the death of Muhammad. In 2015, Shia Muslims made up around...

Society in Arab Sind. E. J. BRILL. p. 126. ISBN 90-04-08551-3. Ibn Athir, Vol. 3, pp. 45–46, 381, as cited in: S. A. N. Rezavi, "The Shia Muslims", in History...

Sunni and Shia are different sects among Muslims and the difference of opinions have resulted in many Fatwas, non-binding but authoritative legal opinion...

as Australian Muslims, from all forms of Islam, constituted 813,392 people, or 3.2% of the total Australian population. That total Muslim population makes...

all Shia Muslims under one banner. On the other hand, this concept shows the increasing political weight of Shia in the Middle East. Areas in the Shia Crescent...

from the Twelver Shia, who accept Musa al-Kazim, the younger brother of Isma'il, as the true Imām. After the death of Muhammad ibn Isma'il in the 8th century...

January 2022. Of the total Muslim population, 10-13% are Shia Muslims and 87-90% are Sunni Muslims. Most Shias (between 68% and 80%) live in just four countries:...

surveys in 2022 showed that, depending on how the question was asked, 38% to 56% identified as Shia Muslims, 5% identified as Sunni Muslims, and roughly...

madhhabs. The Alawites are the biggest Muslim minority sect (10% of the country's population), followed by Isma'ili and Twelver Shia Muslims. Some Sufi...

majority of British Muslims in the United Kingdom adhere to Sunni Islam, while smaller numbers are associated with Shia Islam. During the Middle Ages, there...

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...