Twelver Shīʿism (Arabic: ٱثْنَا عَشَرِيَّة; ʾIthnā ʿAshariyya), also known as Imāmiyya (Arabic: إِمَامِيَّة), is the largest branch of Shīʿa Islam, comprising...

Ayatollah are in use for Twelver clerics. Islamist Shīʿīsm (Persian: تشیع اخوانی) is a new denomination within Twelver Shīʿīsm greatly inspired by the...

as the divine guide of humankind in his time. These are the Twelve Imams in Twelver Shi'ism. The last of these imams, Muhammad al-Mahdi, is believed to...

Yahya). The Zaydis on the Caspian Sea were forcefully converted to Twelver Shi'ism in the 16th century. The Zaydis in Yemen had initially lived in the...

over the identity of these imams. In Twelver Shi’ism, Muhammad is believed to have been succeeded by a line of twelve imams from his descent, who also inherited...

heresy. In the tradition of Twelver Shia Islam, the twelfth and final Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi, who is also considered by Twelver Shia to be the prophesied...

mid-fifteenth century, the Twelver Safawiyya changed in character, evolving into an extreme and intolerant form of Twelver Shi'ism, becoming militant under...

prophet Muhammad in the Twelver branch of Shia Islam, including that of the Alawite and Alevi. According to Twelver theology, the Twelve Imams are exemplary...

Mavani, Hamid (2013). Religious Authority and Political Thought in Twelver Shi'ism: From Ali to Post-Khomeini. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-62440-4. Bernheimer...

followers of Twelver Shīʿa Islam, however the British judge upheld that the Khojas were Ismāʿīlī and so those Khojas split off to follow Twelver Shi'ism. In the...