As for the foremost one in the matter of Islam and faith, it was Ali ibn Abi Talib '" Other Sunnis and all Shi ' a Muslims maintain that the second person to publicly accept Muhammed as the messenger of God was Ali ibn Abi Talib, the first being Muhammad's wife Khadija.

Although Arab Muslim intellectual life was still centered in Baghdad, Shi ' a Islam, predominated in the Samanid areas at this time.

Daim al-Islam is a book on the rulings of Islam followed by Ismaili Muslims who adhere to the Shi ' a Ismaili Fatimid fiqh.

The book emphasizes what importance Islam has given to manners and etiquette along with the worship of God, citing the traditions of the first four Imams of the Shi ' a Ismaili Fatimid school of thought.

A Miniature ( illuminated manuscript ) | miniature from Padshahnama depicting the surrender of the Shi ' a Islam | Shi ' a Safavid dynasty | Safavid garrison of Kandahar in 1638 to the Mughal Empire | Mughal army of Shah Jahan commanded by Kilij Khan.

Lebanon ’ s majority Shi ' a Islam in Lebanon | Shi ’ a areas as of July 2006, where Hezbollah is most prominent.

The Sunni branch of Islam does not have imams in the same sense as the Shi ' a, an important distinction often overlooked by those outside of the Islamic faith.

In Twelver Shi ' a Islam, however, Jihad is one of the 10 Practices of the Religion.

Drafted by a treaty and a bill of sale, and constituted between 1820 and 1858, the Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu ( as it was first called ) combined disparate regions, religions, and ethnicities: to the east, Ladakh was ethnically and culturally Tibetan and its inhabitants practised Buddhism ; to the south, Jammu had a mixed population of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs ; in the heavily populated central Kashmir valley, the population was overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, however, there was also a small but influential Hindu minority, the Kashmiri brahmins or pandits ; to the northeast, sparsely populated Baltistan had a population ethnically related to Ladakh, but which practised Shi ' a Islam ; to the north, also sparsely populated, Gilgit Agency, was an area of diverse, mostly Shi ' a groups ; and, to the west, Punch was Muslim, but of different ethnicity than the Kashmir valley.

The mystic interpretation of themes in poetry which were contrary to Islamic teachings became popular after the Safavid dynasty rise to power and the establishing of Twelver school of Shi ' a Islam as the official religion of Iran.

Khomeini was a marja (" source of emulation ") in Twelver Shi ' a Islam, author of more than forty books, but is primarily known for his political activities.

Adherents of Shia Islam are called Shi ' ites or Shias.

The influence of revolutionary Shi ' ite Islam grew apace in the region, particularly in countries with large Shi ' ite populations, especially Iraq.

Indian influences are seen in the practice of Shi ' i Islam in Trinidad.

Sufis generally hold to a much more inclusivist and tolerant view of other faiths and religious systems than traditional Sunni and Shi ' a Islam.

** Prince Aly Khan, Imam of Ismaili Shi ' a Islam ( d. 1960 )

* Ali ibn Abi Talib ( 600 – 661 ), cousin of Muhammad, fourth caliph of Islam, first Shi ' a Imam

* Husain ibn ' Ali, Shi ' i religious leader and grandson of the prophet of Islam, enters martyrdom.

* Ja ‘ farī, an alternative name for Twelver, the largest branch of Shi ' a Islam, to the exclusion of other branches, Ismā ‘ īlī and Zaydi.

In modern Shi ` ah Islam, scholars play a more prominent role in the daily lives of Muslims than in Sunni Islam ; and there is a hierarchy of higher titles of scholastic authority, such as Ayatollah.

Qin Shi Huang also followed the school of the five elements, earth, wood, metal, fire and water .（ 五德終始說 ） Zhao Zheng's birth element is water, which is connected with the colour black.

In a mythical version of this story, presented in Wang Jia's 4 < sup > th </ sup > century AD work Shi Yi Ji, Yu is assisted in his work by a yellow dragon and a black turtle ( not necessarily related to the Black Tortoise of Chinese mythology ).

Back at school in New York City, Chinese officials Marshall Kai Ti Chan and his assistant Mei Ying inform Jones of the Heart of the Dragon, a black pearl buried with the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi.

Constellations of the three schools were distinguished with different colors: white, black and yellow for stars of Wu Xian ( astronomer ) | Wu Xian, Gan De and Shi Shen respectively.

* It has also been reported that the people of Semnan have historically refused to wear black clothing for the mourning of the dead, this does not include the religious mournings of Muharram or the deaths and martyrdoms of Shi ' a Imams and figures.

In many Shi ' a countries, a black turban is worn only by male sayids, men who descend from Muhammad through his daughter Fatimah and his son-in-law Ali.

Shi subsequently becomes head of the government.

Ahmed Chalabi, a secular Shi ' ite Iraqi-American and mathematician by training, became head of the group.

* In the computer game Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom, the Qin Dynasty campaign has the player as the head architect of Qin Shi Huang, in charge of overseeing the construction of the capital, the Lingqu canal, the Great Wall, as well as his tomb and the terracotta army, although the game takes liberties with the time frames in which these events actually took place.

He was an active member of London's Shi ' a community and was the head of AhlulBayt Centre in South London.

The Shi ' a had hoped that their imam would be named head of the Caliphate, inaugurating the era of peace and prosperity the millennialists had believed would come.

Liu Yao was captured and executed ; his sons agreed to join Shi Le forces, and Shi Le became de-facto head of the Southern Xiongnu state.

* May 17-A suicide car bomb in Baghdad kills the head of Iraq's Governing Council Abdul-Zahra Othman Mohammad, a prominent Shi ' ite politician from Basra also known as Izzedin Salim.

Two different styles are common: most Shi ' ar, particularly those of the aristocracy, have feathers sprouting in a triangular shape away from the face, one peak on the top of the head and one peak on each side slightly over the shoulder ; the other commonly seen " hairstyle " is bushy on both sides and very flat on the top.

* In Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, a Shi ' ar warship is a location when the heroes head to obtain an M ' Kraan Crystal.

As the non-Han continued fleeing Yecheng, Shi Min realized that he would not be able to use the Hu ( 胡 Xiongnu ), so he issued an order to the Hans according to which each civil servant who would kill one Hu ( 胡 ) and brought his head to him will be promoted in rank by three degrees, and a military officer will be transferred to the service at his Supreme Command.

In 350, under a pressure from Shi Min, still a nominal head of the state Shi Jian changed the name of his state from Zhao to Wei ( 衛 ) and the imperial clan name from Shi to Li ( 李 ).

He did so and sent Shi Zhi's head to Ran Min, and Ran Min had Shi Zhi's head be burned on a busy street in Yecheng.

Sam battles the head of the Shi ' ar Imperial Guard, Gladiator to a standstill, despite being overpowered, thus facing his doubts about his abilities, only to be left behind as the rest of the X-Men were taken into space to save the Shi ' ar Empire.

Shortly after, he moved back to Qom to head the provincial branch of Organization for Islamic Evangelization ( saazmaan-e tablighaat-e eslaami ), which sent clerics to the whole country for speeches during the holy Shi ' a months of Muharram, Safar, and Ramadan, and also published periodicals, which sometimes contained critiques of extremist or conservative factions of the hawza.

* For the hardline Iranian Twelver Shi ' a cleric and head of Judiciary System of Iran between 1989 and 1999, see Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi

Seizing the advantage presented by the infighting, the Qing dispatched their navy with Shi Lang at the head, destroying the Zheng fleet at the Penghu Islands.

Prince Ao's head of household Shi Dan ( 史丹 ), a relative of Emperor Yuan's grandmother and a senior official respected by Emperor Yuan, managed to convince Emperor Yuan that Crown Prince Ao was trying to stop Emperor Yuan himself from overgrieving, but the seed of dissatisfaction was sown.