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Also Known As Shīʿism • Shiʿah • Shīʿī • Shīʿah • Shiʿite • Shīʿa

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Najaf: shrine of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib
Qom, Iran: Dome of the Shrine of Fāṭimah
Battle of Karbala
Mausoleum of Öljeitü
Ruhollah Khomeini
ʿĀshūrāʾ taʿziyyah (passion play)
Muslims at a taʿziyyah, a passion play commemorating the martyrdom of al-Ḥusayn, in Jaipur, India.
Geographical distribution of the religions of the world in the early 1980s.
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Ismāʿīl I
shah of Iran
Mausoleum of Öljeitü
Öljeitü
Il-Khanid ruler of Iran
al-Aḥsāʾī
Muslim religious leader
al-Ḥillī
Muslim theologian
Shaykh Ḥaydar
Ṣafavid leader
Shāh Shojāʿ
king of Afghanistan

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