What is Shia Islam? - Twelverism

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Explains Twelver Shi'ism from the succession dispute after Muhammad through the twelve imams and the occultation, an even-handed overview of beliefs often caricatured elsewhere.

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Twelver Shia Islam: its history, imams and beliefs.

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Part of Making the Muslim World (Islamic History)

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