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...

imam. Imamate in Shia doctrine, the doctrine of the leadership of the Muslim community in Shia Islam. For specific Shia sects, see: Imamate in Twelver...

rate, this hereditary nature of imamate thus closed the field to outside claimants. Nass is often accompanied in Shia sources by inheritance of secret...

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

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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...

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...

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...

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