Muslims, Shiʿite
Shiʿite Muslims make up the second largest sect of the Islamic community after the Sunni Muslims, and they are the predominant Muslim population in Azerbaijan, Bahrain, ...
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Twelver Shiʿism
There are two major branches of Islam. After the death of the prophet Muhammad (c. 632 CE), Muslims who followed Abu Bakr, ʿUmar, and ʿUthman as the temporal and ...
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Islam: Shiism
FOUNDED: 632 C.E.RELIGION AS A PERCENTAGE OF WORLD POPULATION: 2.2 percent
Overview
One of the two major branches of Islam, Shiism represents about 15 percent of the worldwide Muslim pop...
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