Tradition Islam
Twelver Shiism
شيعة اثنا عشرية ar شیعه دوازدهامامی fa
Branch of Shia Islam admitting 12 imams as the successors of Muhammad
- Also called Twelvers, Ithna Ashariyyah, Twelver Shi'ism
A path that branches,
meets and parts.
Schools and lineages
Branches · 3
Many paths. Shared histories.
3 branches recorded under Twelver Shiism, one step down, as the records give them.
What this means
Association and branching, in both directions. Traditions overlap, split and re-merge; this is not a single-origin family tree, and being listed under another tradition is not the same as being recognised by it.
Does not imply a clean single-origin family tree · that the parent recognises the branch
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Recorded as a branch of
Traditions whose own records say they belong to it
2 traditions name Twelver Shiism as their own — an affiliation, so kept apart from the tree.
Figures · 16
Begin with a figure
What this means
Records whose own statements name this tradition — 16 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.
An affiliation recorded on a person is a third party’s record, often of one period of a life — not that person’s belief at every point in it.
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Ruhollah Khomeini24 September 1902 CE – 3 June 1989 CE · Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989 -
Mohammad Reza I of Iran26 October 1919 CE – 27 July 1980 CE · Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979 -
Ismail I17 July 1487 CE – 23 May 1524 CE · founder and first shah of Safavid Iran -
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Nader Shah22 October 1688 CE – 19 June 1747 CE · Shah of Iran (r. 1736–47) and founder of the Afsharid dynasty -
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Yunus Emrec. 1241 CE – c. 1321 CE · Turkish folk poet and Sufi mystic -
Ali al-Rida12 April 770 CE – 5 September 818 CE · eighth of the Twelve Shia Imams (766–818) -
Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar14 March 1742 CE – 17 June 1797 CE · founder of the Qajar Dynasty (1796–1797) -
Muhammad al-Baqir8 May 677 CE – 26 January 733 CE · Fifth of the Twelve Shia Imams -
Hussein-Ali Montazeri22 September 1922 CE – 20 December 2009 CE · cleric and Deputy Supreme Leader of Iran from 1985 to 1989 -
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Morteza Motahhari31 January 1919 CE – 1 May 1979 CE · Iranian politician (1919-1979) -
Shaykh Saduq918 CE – 991 CE · Buyid shiite scholar -
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Abu al-Qasim Khoei19 November 1899 CE – 8 August 1992 CE · Iranian Islamic scholar
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Places · 1
Places and sites
What this means
Records whose own statements name this tradition — 1 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.
A place that names a tradition may be a temple or a whole province. Either way it is not a count of believers, and not evidence of practice in every period.
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Institutions · 2
Offices and houses
What this means
Records whose own statements name this tradition — 2 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.
A ruling house that names a tradition is a family’s recorded affiliation, not its subjects’ practice; an office is a line of holders, not a family.
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Connections
How Twelver Shiism connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 1
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
2 statements on this record
- 2 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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