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shia, shi’a, shi’i (hence, shiism or تشيع – ta-šayyo’ ) : literally, follower – the Muslims (mainly in Iran, Iraq, and the Persian Gulf kingdom of Bahrain) of the branch of Islam comprising sects believing in Imam Ali and another eleven Imams as the divinely-ordained successors of Prophet Mohammad and in the concealment and messianic return, in the latter-day, of the last of them, that is Imam Mahdi; hence, the twelvers
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