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...

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...

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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...

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...

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...

إِمَامِيَّة), is the largest branch of Shīʿa, comprising about 90% of all Shīas. The term Twelver refers to its adherents' belief in twelve divinely ordained leaders...