Adherents of Shi?a Shi'a Islam are called Shi?a Muslims, Shi?ites, or simply Shi?a or Shia.
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Adherents of Shi?a Shi'a Islam are called Shi?a Muslims, Shi?ites, or simply Shi?a or Shia.
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Shi?a Shi'a Islam is based on a hadith report concerning Muhammad's pronouncement at Ghadir Khumm.
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Occultation is an eschatological belief held in various denominations of Shi?a Shi'a Islam concerning a messianic figure, the hidden and last Imam known as "the Mahdi", that one day shall return on Earth and fill the world with justice.
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Shi'a Islam is responsible for the esoteric interpretation of the Quran.
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Shi'a Islam is the possessor of divine knowledge and therefore the "Prime Teacher".
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Shi'a Islam's rule was the longest of any caliph in any Islamic empire.
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Connection between the Indus Valley and Shi?a Shi'a Islam was established through the early Muslim conquests.
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Shi'a Islam supported ?Ali, and died in the Battle of the Camel alongside Sindhi Jats.
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Shi'a Islam was a poet and few couplets of his poem in praise of ?Ali have survived, as reported in Chachnama:.
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