Twelver Shi’ism, the largest branch of Shi’ite Islam, tends to be viewed as fundamentally authoritarian, particularly as seen through the lens of the ideology of the Iranian government.. Aun Hasan Ali ...

The previous articles centered on the origins of Shiite Islam and its political history to examine the Shiite basis for ...

While the first three parts of the series explored the history of Shiite Islam and how the lack of an earthly imam formed ...

Against the background of long-standing narratives in which Twelver Shi‘ism is viewed as fundamentally authoritarian, this talk builds upon recent scholarship in the fields of Religious Studies and ...

In 1960, Sheikh Mahmoud Shaltut, then Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Islamic Institute and the undisputed supreme Sunni authority of the time, issued a fatwa recognising both Twelver Shiism and Zaidism as ...

In Twelver Shi’ism, the Mahdi is the last imam in the line, believed to have born in the Muslim year 260 A.H. (873-874 A.D.) and to have entered a state of occultation, ...