The term bāb (Arabic: باب, lit. 'gateway') was used in early Shia Islam for senior disciples, and authorised deputies, of the current Imam. Less commonly...

(also known as Bab, Baba, or Seth) ancient Egyptian God Bab (Shia Islam), a term designating deputies of the Imams in Shia Islam Báb (Sayyid `Alí Muḥammad...

successor as caliph of the Islamic community should be Abu Bakr, whereas a second group of Muslims, who would come to be known as the Shias, believed that his...

other symbols. Bábism (Persian: بابیه, romanized: Babiyye), also known as the Bábi Faith, is a monotheistic religion founded in 1844 by the Báb (b. 'Ali Muhammad)...

Báb's mother. Later, Khadijih became a Baháʼí. In the 1790s in Iraq, Shaykh Ahmad (1753–1826) began a religious school of thought within Shia Islam....

of the Muʿtazila school by Islamic scholars such as Muhammad Abduh. Shīʿa Islam is the second-largest denomination of Islam, comprising around 10–15% of...

adhering to Shia Islam, which an overwhelming majority of those following the Twelver branch of Shia Islam. Approximately 12% adhere to Sunni Islam, most of...

(Arabic: إِمَامِيَّة), is the largest branch of Shīʿa Islam, comprising about 85 percent of all Shīʿa Muslims. The term Twelver refers to its adherents'...

beliefs and Islamic Sufi doctrine introduced to Kurdistan by Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir in the 12th century. Bábism stems from Twelver Shia passed through...

Both Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims agree on the three holiest sites in Islam being, respectively, the Masjid al-Haram (including the Kaaba), in Mecca;...