He is considered the leader of the Seminary of Qom, Iran.

There is thus little prospect of an alternative Shiite power center emerging out of the chaos in Iraq.

It is the largest mosque in the world by dimension and the second largest by capacity.

Will it be a united Sunni Shia Eid .. or an Eid spread over a few days while the long beards and turbans battle it out?

From the campaign's page on Facebook, Abdularahna Aljaser shares his opinion on the appearance of a Shia figure, Alsaffar Unfortunately, Alsaffar is now considered one of those who could be trusted!!

Dubai's ex police chief says US President Barack Obama is of Shia origin due to IranDeal ShiaScare https t.co TuZJ6DK9t5 Holly Dagres ( hdagres) January 20, 2016

A bomb explosion killed 20 people in a Shi'ite mosqe in the Iranian south eastern city, Zahedan.

Al Ahmad trending worldwide on Twitter According to Human Rights Watch, Al Ahmad was arrested for his comments on a video he posted on YouTube, on July 7, 2011, criticising the long term detention of security suspects without charge or trial. Ironically, Saudi authorities have not announced any charges against Al Ahmad, who was jailed eight months ago and who had taught at Imam Muhammad bin Sa'ud University in Riyadh.

DrBassemYoussef Today it is a Shia tomorrow a Sufi, and then a Copt, a before him a Bahai. Afterwards it will be a Muslim who doesn't agree with the way you want to implement Sharia (Islamic teachings) with your ideology and then it will be someone whose look you don't like

And, while its western neighbor Iraq is a fellow Shia majority state, Iraq s Arab Shia make no secret of their distaste for the Persians and their claim to Shia prominence.

So far, King Abdullah has shown no sign of opting for a policy of inclusion not even a token gesture, such as a Shia minister.

A document from December 2006, as defined by The Australian , describes a plan by a Shia militia commander to kidnap US soldiers in Baghdad in late 2006 or early 2007.

A group of Shiite members also returned in July after a boycott which gained them an investigation into the bombing of a Shiite mosque, along with reconstruction and improved security.

In the early 1950s people answering the Iraq census didn't know whether to pick Sunni or Shia coz many were mixed. Iyad El Baghdadi ( iyad_elbaghdadi) January 13, 2016

Mr. Khalid Ahmed Al Eleq, a citizen of Saudi Arabia born on 25 December 1974, is a Shia religious cleric usually resident in Tarut, Turkia, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia.

To believe that sectarian fighting started because of a foolish US decision, and ended because of a subsequent wise one, is to ignore the role of sectarianism in a country that straddles the Sunni and Shia worlds and the Turkic and Arab worlds.

Sheik Dia al Shakarchi, a leading Shi ite theologian, argues that democracy is not only compatible with Islam, but is essential to it.

One of the cables reveal that the sister of a well known Shia cleric approached Saudi Arabia for donations. Al Sadr charity foundation is named after Mosa Al Sadr, who is the founder of the Lebanese Shia party AMAL, a group closely affiliated with Hizbullah.

In this respect, the source alleges that it is not the first time that a Saudi citizen who is a Shia Muslim has been detained without charges for long periods after returning from religious studies in Iran. This practice allegedly persists despite the lifting of the ban on travelling to Iran in 2001.

To believe that sectarian fighting started because of a foolish US decision, and ended because of a subsequent wise one, is to ignore the role of sectarianism in a country that straddles the Sunni and Shia worlds and the Turkic and Arab worlds. These divisions, obscured by Saddam s totalitarianism, never went away.

You d need an interpreter first of all to translate and I can assure you that yours truly, an Atheist, would have more to talk about with the Sufi and Twelver than the Sufi and Twelver would with the Wahhabi, or even with each other.