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Jamāl ad-Dīn al-Ḥasan bin Yūsuf bin ʿAli ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī (جمال الدين الحسن بن يوسف الحلي; December 1250 – December 1325), known by the honorific title al-Allāmah al-Ḥillī (العلامة الحلي, ”The Sage of Hillah”) was an Iraqi Arab scholar and one of the most influential Twelver Shi'i Muslim authors of all time and an expert in Twelver theology as well as a mujtahid.[1]

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  1. 77 relations: Akhbar (Shia Islam), Al-Bahrani, Al-Hurr al-Amili, Alavi (surname), Ali, Ali ibn Tawus al-Hilli, Alids, Arabs, Ash'arism, Astrology in the medieval Islamic world, Avicenna, Avicennism, Öljaitü, Baghdad, Basra, Biographical evaluation, Brill Publishers, Determinism, Encyclopaedia of Islam, Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, Fiqh, Free will, H. A. R. Gibb, Hadith, Hajj, Hillah, Ibn Arabi, Ibn Taymiyya, Ijtihad, Il khan, Ilkhanate, Illuminationism, Imam, Imamate in Shia doctrine, Iraq, Islam, Islamic Golden Age, Islamic philosophy, Ja'fari school, Kalam, Kashf al-Yaqin, Logic in Islamic philosophy, Maragheh observatory, Martijn Theodoor Houtsma, Mashhad, Mathematics in the medieval Islamic world, Metaphysics, Minhaj al-Karamah, Mongol invasion of Persia and Mesopotamia, Mu'tazilism, ... Expand index (27 more) »

  2. 1325 deaths
  3. 13th-century Muslim scholars of Islam
  4. 14th-century Muslim scholars of Islam
  5. Burials at Imam Ali Mosque
  6. Critics of Ibn Taymiyya
  7. Legal scholars
  8. People from Hillah

Akhbar (Shia Islam)

In Twelver Shia Islam, Akhbar refers to the transmission of hadith, which are traditions regarding the actions and teachings of Muhammad, and his twelve successors.

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Al-Bahrani

Kamal al-Din Maytham ibn Ali (translit; 1238–1299), commonly known by the al-Bahrani (translit), was a leading thirteenth-century Twelver Shia theologian, author and philosopher.

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Al-Hurr al-Amili

Muḥammad bin al-Ḥasan bin ʿAlī bin al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥurr al-ʿĀmilī al-Mashgharī (مُحَمَّد ٱبْن ٱلْحَسَن ٱبْن عَلِيّ ٱبْن ٱلْحُسَيْن ٱلْحُرّ ٱلْعَامِلِيّ ٱلْمَشْغَرِيّ; 1033/1624 - 1104/1693), commonly known as Al-Ḥurr Al-ʿĀmilī (ٱلْحُرّ ٱلْعَامِلِيّ), was a prominent Twelver Shia muhaddith.

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Alavi (surname)

Notable people with the surname Alavi include.

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Ali

Ali ibn Abi Talib (translit) was the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and was the fourth Rashidun caliph who ruled from 656 to 661, as well as the first Shia imam.

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Ali ibn Tawus al-Hilli

Sayyed Radhi ud-Deen Ali ibn Musa ibn Tawus al Hasani wal Husaini (1193-1266 AD) commonly called Sayyed Ibn Tawus was a Shiite jurist, theologian, historian and astrologer. Al-Allama al-Hilli and ali ibn Tawus al-Hilli are 13th-century Arab people, 13th-century Muslim scholars of Islam, Burials at Imam Ali Mosque and Iraqi Shia Muslims.

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Alids

The Alids are those who claim descent from Ali ibn Abi Talib (عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600–661 CE), the fourth Rashidun caliph and the first imam in Shia Islam.

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Arabs

The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.

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Ash'arism

Ash'arism (translit) is a school of theology in Sunni Islam named after Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari, a Shāfiʿī jurist, reformer (mujaddid), and scholastic theologian, in the 9th–10th century.

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Astrology in the medieval Islamic world

Some medieval Muslims took a keen interest in the study of astrology, partly because they considered the celestial bodies to be essential, partly because the dwellers of desert-regions often travelled at night, and relied upon knowledge of the constellations for guidance in their journeys.

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Avicenna

Ibn Sina (translit; – 22 June 1037 CE), commonly known in the West as Avicenna, was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world, flourishing during the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers.

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Avicennism

Avicennism is a school of Islamic philosophy which was established by Avicenna.

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Öljaitü

Öljaitü, also known as Mohammad-e Khodabande (24 March 1282 – 16 December 1316), was the eighth Ilkhanid dynasty ruler from 1304 to 1316 in Tabriz, Iran.

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Baghdad

Baghdad (or; translit) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab and in West Asia after Tehran.

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Basra

Basra (al-Baṣrah) is a city in southern Iraq.

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Biographical evaluation

Biographical evaluation (ʿilm ar-rijāl; literally meaning 'Knowledge of Men', but more commonly understood as the Science of Narrators) refers to a discipline of Islamic religious studies within hadith terminology in which the narrators of hadith are evaluated.

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Brill Publishers

Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals.

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Determinism

Determinism is the philosophical view that all events in the universe, including human decisions and actions, are causally inevitable.

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Encyclopaedia of Islam

The Encyclopaedia of Islam (EI) is a reference work that facilitates the academic study of Islam.

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Fakhr al-Din al-Razi

Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (فخر الدين الرازي) or Fakhruddin Razi (فخر الدين رازی) (1149 or 1150 – 1209), often known by the sobriquet Sultan of the Theologians, was an influential Iranian and Muslim polymath, scientist and one of the pioneers of inductive logic.

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Fiqh

Fiqh (فقه) is Islamic jurisprudence.

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Free will

Free will is the capacity or ability to choose between different possible courses of action.

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H. A. R. Gibb

Sir Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb (2 January 1895 – 22 October 1971), known as H. A. R.

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Hadith

Hadith (translit) or Athar (أثر) is a form of Islamic oral tradition containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the prophet Muhammad.

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Hajj

Hajj (translit; also spelled Hadj, Haj or Haji) is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims.

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Hillah

Hillah (ٱلْحِلَّة al-Ḥillah), also spelled Hilla, is a city in central Iraq on the Hilla branch of the Euphrates River, south of Baghdad.

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Ibn Arabi

Ibn ʿArabī (ابن عربي,; full name: أبو عبد الله محـمـد بن عربي الطائي الحاتمي,; 1165–1240) was an Andalusi Arab scholar, mystic, poet, and philosopher, extremely influential within Islamic thought.

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Ibn Taymiyya

Ibn Taymiyya (ٱبْن تَيْمِيَّة; 22 January 1263 – 26 September 1328)Ibn Taymiyya, Taqi al-Din Ahmad, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam. Al-Allama al-Hilli and Ibn Taymiyya are 13th-century Arab people.

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Ijtihad

Ijtihad (اجتهاد) is an Islamic legal term referring to independent reasoning by an expert in Islamic law, or the thorough exertion of a jurist's mental faculty in finding a solution to a legal question.

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Il khan

Il Khan (also il-khan, ilkhan, elkhan, etc.), in Turkic languages and Mongolian, is a title of leadership.

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Ilkhanate

The Ilkhanate or Il-khanate, ruled by the Il-Khans or Ilkhanids (translit), and known to the Mongols as Hülegü Ulus, was a Mongol khanate founded in the southwestern territories of the Mongol Empire.

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Illuminationism

Illuminationism (Persian حكمت اشراق hekmat-e eshrāq, Arabic: حكمة الإشراق ḥikmat al-ishrāq, both meaning "Wisdom of the Rising Light"), also known as Ishrāqiyyun or simply Ishrāqi (Persian اشراق, Arabic: الإشراق, lit. "Rising", as in "Shining of the Rising Sun") is a philosophical and mystical school of thought introduced by Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi (honorific: Shaikh al-ʿIshraq or Shaikh-i-Ishraq, both meaning "Master of Illumination") in the twelfth century, established with his Kitab Hikmat al-Ishraq (lit: "Book of the Wisdom of Illumination"), a fundamental text finished in 1186.

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Imam

Imam (إمام,;: أئمة) is an Islamic leadership position.

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Imamate in Shia doctrine

In Shia Islam, the Imamah (إمامة) is a doctrine which asserts that certain individuals from the lineage of the Islamic prophet Muhammad are to be accepted as leaders and guides of the ummah after the death of Muhammad.

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Iraq

Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Islamic Golden Age

The Islamic Golden Age was a period of scientific, economic and cultural flourishing in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 13th century.

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Islamic philosophy

Islamic philosophy is philosophy that emerges from the Islamic tradition.

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Ja'fari school

The Jaʿfarī school, also known as the Jafarite school, Jaʿfarī fiqh (الفقه الجعفري) or Ja'fari jurisprudence, is a prominent school of jurisprudence (fiqh) within Twelver and Ismaili (including Nizari) Shia Islam, named after the sixth Imam, Ja'far al-Sadiq.

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Kalam

Ilm al-kalam or ilm al-lahut, often shortened to kalam, is the scholastic, speculative, or philosophical study of Islamic theology (aqida).

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Kashf al-Yaqin

Kashf al-Yaqin or Kashf al-Yaqin fi Faḍā'il Amīr al-Mu'minīn (Arabic: کشف الیقین) (English: Certainty Uncovered) is a short book on the life of Imam Ali ('Alī Ibn Abī Ṭālib'), the first Imam of the Shia Islam, which was written by the Shi'ite scholar Allamah Al-Hilli.

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Logic in Islamic philosophy

Early Islamic law placed importance on formulating standards of argument, which gave rise to a "novel approach to logic" (منطق manṭiq "speech, eloquence") in Kalam (Islamic scholasticism).

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Maragheh observatory

The Maragheh observatory (Persian: رصدخانه مراغه), also spelled Maragha, Maragah, Marageh, and Maraga, was an astronomical observatory established in the mid 13th century under the patronage of the Ilkhanid Hulagu and the directorship of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, a Persian scientist and astronomer.

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Martijn Theodoor Houtsma

Martijn Theodoor Houtsma (15 January 1851, in Irnsum, Friesland – 9 February 1943, in Utrecht), often referred to as M. Th.

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Mashhad

Mashhad (مشهد) is the second-most-populous city in Iran, located in the relatively remote north-east of the country about from Tehran.

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Mathematics in the medieval Islamic world

Mathematics during the Golden Age of Islam, especially during the 9th and 10th centuries, was built upon syntheses of Greek mathematics (Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius) and Indian mathematics (Aryabhata, Brahmagupta).

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Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the basic structure of reality.

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Minhaj al-Karamah

Minhaj al-Karamah fi Ma'rifat al-Imamah ("The Miraculous Way of Knowledge of the Imamate"), also known as Minhāj al-Istikāmah fī Isbātu al-Imamah, is a theological treatise written by a prominent Shia scholar Allamah Al-Hilli.

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Mongol invasion of Persia and Mesopotamia

The Mongol conquest of Persia comprised three Mongol campaigns against Islamic states in the Middle East and Central Asia between 1219 and 1258.

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Mu'tazilism

Mu'tazilism (translit, singular translit) was an Islamic sect that appeared in early Islamic history and flourished in Basra and Baghdad.

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Muhaqqiq al-Hilli

Najm ul-Din Abul-Qasim Ja'far bin al-Hasan bin Yahya bin al-Hasan bin Sa'id, famous as al-Muhaqqiq al-Hilli and al-Muhaqqiq al-Awwal (1205 – 1277) was an influential Arab Shi'i Mujtahid born in the city of al-Hilla, Iraq. Al-Allama al-Hilli and Muhaqqiq al-Hilli are Iraqi Shia Muslims and people from Hillah.

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Mulla Sadra

Ṣadr ad-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī, more commonly known as Mullā Ṣadrā (ملا صدرا; صدر المتألهین; c. 1571/2 – c. 1635/40 CE / 980 – 1050 AH), was a Persian Twelver Shi'i Islamic mystic, philosopher, theologian, and ‘Ālim who led the Iranian cultural renaissance in the 17th century.

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Nahj al-balagha

(lit) is the best-known collection of sermons, letters, and sayings attributed to Ali ibn Abi Talib, the fourth Rashidun caliph, the first Shia imam, and the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Nahj al-Haqq wa Kashf al-Sidq

Nahj al-Haqq wa Kashf al-Sidq (نهج الحق وكشف الصدق — "Way of rightness and discovering truth") is a book written by Allamah Al-Hilli (Died: 726).

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Najaf

Najaf or An-Najaf or Al-Najaf (ٱلنَّجَف) or An-Najaf al-Ashraf (ٱلنَّجَف ٱلْأَشْرَف), is the capital city of Najaf Governorate in central Iraq about 160 km (99 mi) south of Baghdad.

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Najm al-Din al-Qazwini al-Katibi

Najm al-Dīn 'Alī ibn 'Umar al-Qazwīnī al-Kātibī (born AH 600 / 1204 CE, died AH 675 / 1276 CE) was a Persian Islamic philosopher and logician of the Shafi`i school.

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Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi (1201 – 1274), also known as Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (نصیر الدین الطوسی; نصیر الدین طوسی) or simply as (al-)Tusi, was a Persian polymath, architect, philosopher, physician, scientist, and theologian. Al-Allama al-Hilli and Nasir al-Din al-Tusi are 13th-century Muslim scholars of Islam.

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Persian language

Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.

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Physics in the medieval Islamic world

The natural sciences saw various advancements during the Golden Age of Islam (from roughly the mid 8th to the mid 13th centuries), adding a number of innovations to the Transmission of the Classics (such as Aristotle, Ptolemy, Euclid, Neoplatonism).

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Polemic

Polemic is contentious rhetoric intended to support a specific position by forthright claims and to undermine the opposing position.

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Principles of Islamic jurisprudence

Principles of Islamic jurisprudence (translit) are traditional methodological principles used in Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) for deriving the rulings of Islamic law (sharia).

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Quran

The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah).

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Religious law

Religious law includes ethical and moral codes taught by religious traditions.

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Salah

Salah is the principal form of worship in Islam.

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Sharia

Sharia (sharīʿah) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and hadith.

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Shia Islam

Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.

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Shia Islam in Iraq

Shia Islam in Iraq (الشيعة في العراق) has a history going back to the times of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the first imam of Shia Islam and fourth caliph of Sunni Islam who moved the capital of the early caliphate from Medina to Kufa (or Najaf) two decades after the death of Muhammad.

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Shihab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi

"Shihāb ad-Dīn" Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardī (شهاب‌الدین سهروردی, also known as Sohrevardi) (1154–1191) was a Persian philosopher and founder of the Iranian school of Illuminationism, an important school in Islamic philosophy.

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Sophist

A sophist (sophistēs) was a teacher in ancient Greece in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE.

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Sunni Islam

Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.

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Tadhkirat al-Fuqahā

Tadhkirat al-Fuqahā (Memorandum for Jurists) is a book on Shiite jurisprudence written by Allamah Al-Hilli.

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Tafsir

Tafsir (tafsīr; Explanation) refers to exegesis, usually of the Quran.

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The Book of Healing

The Book of Healing (also known as) is a scientific and philosophical encyclopedia written by Abu Ali ibn Sīna (also known as Avicenna) from medieval Persia, near Bukhara in Maverounnahr.

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Twelve Imams

The Twelve Imams (ٱلْأَئِمَّة ٱلْٱثْنَا عَشَر,; دوازده امام) are the spiritual and political successors to the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the Twelver branch of Shia Islam, including that of the Alawite and Alevi.

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Twelver Shi'ism

Twelver Shīʿism (ٱثْنَا عَشَرِيَّة), also known as Imāmiyya (إِمَامِيَّة), is the largest branch of Shīʿa, comprising about 90% of all Shīas.

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Twelver theology

The theology of Twelver Shi'ism contains the five principles of Shia Islam known as Uṣūl al-Dīn (أصول الدين "Principles of the Faith").

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Umayyad Caliphate

The Umayyad Caliphate or Umayyad Empire (al-Khilāfa al-Umawiyya) was the second caliphate established after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and was ruled by the Umayyad dynasty.

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See also

1325 deaths

13th-century Muslim scholars of Islam

14th-century Muslim scholars of Islam

Burials at Imam Ali Mosque

Critics of Ibn Taymiyya

People from Hillah

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Allama_al-Hilli

Also known as Abu Mansur Hassan bin Yusuf Al-Hilla, Allama Hilli, Allamah Al-Hilli, Allamah Hilli, Allameh Helli, Allameh Hilli, Yousef Ebne Motahhar Helli.

, Muhaqqiq al-Hilli, Mulla Sadra, Nahj al-balagha, Nahj al-Haqq wa Kashf al-Sidq, Najaf, Najm al-Din al-Qazwini al-Katibi, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Persian language, Physics in the medieval Islamic world, Polemic, Principles of Islamic jurisprudence, Quran, Religious law, Salah, Sharia, Shia Islam, Shia Islam in Iraq, Shihab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi, Sophist, Sunni Islam, Tadhkirat al-Fuqahā, Tafsir, The Book of Healing, Twelve Imams, Twelver Shi'ism, Twelver theology, Umayyad Caliphate.