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But it inevitably changed the nature of the Shiah.

It was concerned solely with the internal affairs of the Shiah.

Had the line died out, and, if so, did this mean that the Shiah was deprived of mystical guidance?

Some of the more attractive traits of the Shiah were submerged.

The various branches of the Shiah traced the divine succession differently.

It is supported by the Shiah community and has ties to Hezbollah.

Isfahan became the official scholastic center of the Shiah.

They saw it as a total perversion of the Shiah, and, indeed, of all religion.

This was particularly evident in the Shiah.

Even though the Shiah had become a mythological faith, that did not mean that it was irrational.

The Shiah, however, gradually evolved ideas that seemed even closer to Christian incarnation.

Now the Shiah was becoming establishment.

They comprise both the Sunni and the Shiah groups and include converts.

But the shah was also anxious to sever the connection between Iran and the Shiah.

The myth of Occultation depoliticized the Shiah once and for all.

In their turn, the Mutazilites gravitated toward the Shiah.

This matches the beliefs of Shiah Muslims.

He has also made a contribution to the shrine of the Shiah Imam Ali.

The Shiah needed a Reformation.

In January, however, after this blatant attack on the Shiah, the leadership passed to the ulema.

Ismail was a follower of Shiah faith and declared it to be the faith of the state.

Ishmael learned that Raniya's father was a Shiah, the town's spiritual leader, a man respected for his religious learning.

At the end of Muharram 1978, the shah yet again cast himself as the enemy of the Shiah.

The Turis, being Shiah Muslims, never liked the Afghan rule.

The Shiah was also associated with some wilder speculations, which most Muslims regarded as "extreme" (ghuluww).

After the book published, many Shia' scholars wrote answers to the book.

Answering the requests of Canadian Shia' communities he migrated, with his family, to Vancouver the next year.

It is said that Jafar Sadiq, the sixth Shia' Imam and the founder of Shi'a Islamic fiqh, cursed him.

More recently, Sunni- and Shia- affiliated hackers have attacked and counter-attacked hundreds of websites in a vast struggle over cyberspace that has been characterized as an outbreak of cybersectarianism.