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

* Fatima bint Asad, Muhammad's aunt, the mother of first Shi ’ a Imam Ali bin Abu Talib, and the mother-in-law of Muhammad's daughter, Fatima Zahra

* Islamic Centre, Estreham Road ( Shi ’ a )

The tomb mound is located at the foot of Mount Li as an earthen pyramid, and Qin Shi Huangdi ’ s necropolis complex was constructed as a microcosm of his imperial palace or compound.

There, he made plans for the capture of the fortress, which was surrounded by a fertile valley whose inhabitants were mainly fellow Shi ’ i Muslims, the support of whom Hasan could easily gather for the revolt against the Seljuqs.

Iraqis with a Shi ’ a background felt underrepresented in Garner ’ s selection for government.

Three of the five officials appointed as key members in Iraq ’ s new government were of Sunni background, one official was form a mixed Sunni-Shi ’ a background, and only one of the officials was of pure Shi ’ a background.

The Shi ’ a felt left out and underrepresented, considering they comprise over 60 % of the Iraqi population.

Two main issues dominated his term in office: conscription and Shi ’ i discontent.

On the other side, Shi ’ is found it repugnant and the various tribes who wished to be autonomous found it threatening.

Further complicating al-Askari ’ s term was the growing Shi ’ i discontent in Iraq with massive protests occurring across the country in response to a book written by a Sunni official criticizing the Shi ’ i majority as well as the promotion of the commanding officer of an army unit that opened fire on Shiite demonstrators during a rally.

Al-Askari resigned as prime minister in December 1927 as a result of the cool reception the draft treaty received among the Iraqi people and the growing discontent in the Shi ’ i majority.

Accepting Shang Yang ’ s earlier emphasis on the standardization of weights and measures, the Qin Shi Huang would also accept Shang Yang ’ s philosophy that no individual in the state should be above the law ( by ensuring harsh punishments for all cases of dissent ) and that families should be divided into smaller households.

A group called the Church of Shi ' ar Enlightenment later approached the Xavier Institute, claiming the Hellfire Club was a breakaway sect, and asking to examine whether or not Jean really is the Phoenix God.

Built on the ruins of the previous Xavier Institute, the school is rechristened the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning and is built with state of the art Shi ' ar Technology, gifted to him by the current Emperor of the Shi ' ar Empire Gladiator ( Kallark ) who's son Kid Gladiator is enrolled ( presumably to learn control over his vast powers ).

At this time, Ifriqiya was in ferment, the Zirid ruler al-Muizz ibn Badis, was openly contemplating breaking with his Shi ' ite Fatimid overlords in Cairo, and the jurists of Kairouan were agitating for him to do so.

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.

The minority Shi ' a and majority Sunni both agree on the essential details for the performance of these acts, but the Shi ' a do not refer to them by the same name ( see Ancillaries of the Faith, for the Twelvers, and Seven pillars of Ismailism ).

... As for our culture, it is based on the Holy Quran, the Sunna and the legal rulings of the faqih who is our source of imitation ...</ div > Hezbollah follows the Islamic Shi ' a theology developed by Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

Environment-current issues: government water control projects have drained most of the inhabited marsh areas east of An Nasiriyah by drying up or diverting the feeder streams and rivers ; a once sizable population of Shi ' a Muslims, who have inhabited these areas for thousands of years, has been displaced ; furthermore, the destruction of the natural habitat poses serious threats to the area's wildlife populations ; inadequate supplies of potable water ; development of Tigris-Euphrates Rivers system contingent upon agreements with upstream riparian Turkey ; air and water pollution ; soil degradation ( salination ) and erosion ; and desertification.

While Iran has outlawed homosexuality, Iranian Shi ' a thinkers such as Ayatollah Khomeini have allowed for transsexuals to change their sex so that they can enter heterosexual relationships.

* 1276 – While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song Dynasty court hold the coronation ceremony for the young prince Zhao Shi, making him Emperor Duanzong of Song.

It pardoned Shi Jianqiao for murdering Sun Chuanfang, because she did it in revenge since Sun executed her father Shi Congbin, which was an example of Filial piety to one's parents in Confucianism.

The mountainous territory of Mount Lebanon has long been a shelter for minority and persecuted groups, including its historic Maronite Christian majority along with Druze, and local Shi ' a Muslims.

Amal and Hezbollah are the main rivals for the organized Shi ' a vote, and the PSP ( Progressive Socialist Party ) is the leading Druze party.

* 2006 – Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi ' as in 1982.

This might be from one to another denomination within the same religion, for example, Christian Baptist to Methodist or Catholic, Muslim Shi ' a to Sunni.

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.

Most Iranians had a deep respect for the Shi ' a clergy or Ulema, and tended to be religious, traditional, and alienated from the process of Westernization pursued by the Shah.

The rule of the Al Saud faces political opposition from four sources: Sunni Islamist activism ; liberal critics ; the Shi ' ite minority – particularly in the Eastern Province ; and long-standing tribal and regional particularistic opponents ( for example in the Hejaz ).

A star catalogue is featured in one of the chapters of the late 2nd-century-BC history work Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian ( 145-86 BC ) and contains the " schools " of Shi Shen and Gan De's work ( i. e. the different constellations they allegedly focused on for astrological purposes ).

In 1928, the warlord Shi Yousan set fire to the monastery, burning it for over 40 days, destroying a significant percent of the buildings, including many manuscripts of the temple library.

A dharma gathering was held from August 19 to August 20, 1999, in Shaolin Monastery for Shi Yongxin's assumption of office as abbot.

Wade – Giles (; ; Wade – Giles: Wei < sup > 2 </ sup >- Shi < sup > 4 </ sup > P ' in < sup > 1 </ sup >- yin < sup > 1 </ sup >), sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a romanization system for the Mandarin Chinese language.

* 1098: the Dongpo Academy of Hainan, China is built in honor of the Song Dynasty Chinese official and poet Su Shi, who was exiled there for criticizing reforms of the New Policies Group.

* 1080 – The Chinese poet Su Shi is exiled from court for writing poems criticizing the various reforms of the New Policies Group.

The Taliban also opposed Shi ' ism and have been accused by human rights groups of indiscriminately killing thousands of Shia.

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

Shi ' a and Shiism are forms used in English, while Shi ' ite or Shiite, as well as Shia, refer to its adherents.

* Zayd ibn Ali, Fifth Zaidi Shia Imam, ( in a Shi ' ite revolt in Kufa )

An estimated 80-89 % of the population practice Sunni Islam and belong to the Hanafi Islamic law school while 10-19 % are Shi ' a, majority of the Shia follow the Twelver branch with smaller numbers of Ismailis.

There is generally greater latitude for Shia ulamā, insofar as the principle of independent reasoning ( ijtihād, from the same root as mujtahid ) in matters of religious law remains valid in Shi ' i jurisprudence, whereas it is deemed to have ended in Sunnism as far back as the 10th century ( though it is now reckoned that this perception of the desuetude or " closing of the door " of ijtihad did not always apply ).

( Not necessarily the belief of all sects and schools of thought within the body of Shia Islam as various Shi ' ite sects have opposing views )

It is widely considered the third holiest city of Shi ' a Islam and the center of Shia political power in Iraq.

Shi ' i Muslims see his being killed at the hands of Muawiyah's army as significant because of a well-known hadith, present in both the Shia and Sunni books of hadith, narrated by Abu Hurayrah and others, in which the Prophet is recorded to have said: " Rejoice Ammar!

Shi ' as corroborate the revelation of the Quranic verse 5: 55 with the incident widely narrated in both Sunni and Shia narrations ( ahadith ) where Ali gave his ring in charity to a beggar while bowing in prayer, and cite the verses use of the word إ ِ ن َّ م َ ا to indicate that the subjects are specific, not general.

In Shia Islam three attitudes towards rulers predominated — political cooperation with the ruler, political activism challenging the ruler, and aloofness from politics — with " writings of Shi ' i ulama through the ages " showing " elements of all three of these attitudes.

That the revolution replaced the monarchy and Shah Pahlavi with Islamism and Khomeini, rather than another leader and ideology, is credited in part to the spread of the Shia version of the Islamic revival that opposed Westernization, saw Ayatollah Khomeini as following in the footsteps of the beloved Shi ' a Imam Husayn ibn Ali, and the Shah in those of Husayn's foe, the hated tyrant Yazid I.

On the other hand Twelver Shi ` ism, the largest denomination of Shia Islam, recognizes the Imamat of the descendants of Ismail's younger brother Musa al-Kazim.

Moreover, concessions are made to Shia jurisprudence in cases arising strictly between Shi ' ites.

Shia mourners in countries with a significant Shi ' a majority flagellate themselves with chains or whips, which in extreme cases may causing bleeding.

Ja ' far Al-Sadiq was considered by many Shia ( follower ) of ' Ali ibn Abi Talib to be the sixth Shi ' a imam, however, the Shi ' ahs were considered heretics and rebels by the Umayyad caliphs.

Shia Muslims believe that he converted to Shi ' ism and abdicated, by saying that he could " smell the blood of Ahl ul-Bayt " from the throne.

The provincial capital is the city of Karbala, a holy city for Shi ' ah Muslims, which houses the shrine of Imam Hussein ( AS ), a greatly revered figure in Shia Islam.

As the reason of this turning from Zaydis to Twelver Moojen Momen suggests that since the Buyids were not descendants of Ali, the first Shia Imam, Zaydis Shi ' ism doctrine would have urged them to install an Imam from Ali's family.

Among the Shi ' a minority, some have their origins in different parts of South Asia, while others are adherents of the Shia Ismaili sect from East Africa.

114 people die when a car bomb explodes in a Shia district of Baghdad called Kadhimiya, near a shrine where two of Shi ' ite Islam's most revered Imams are buried.

** A series of suicide bombings kill 74 Shia worshippers at two Shi ' ite mosques in the town of Khanaqin in religiously-mixed Diyala, destroying the structures.

Iran was in many ways a natural ally of Shia in Lebanon as it was far larger than Lebanon, oil-rich, and both Shi ' a-majority and Shi ' a-ruled.