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Shia Islam

second-most populous Islamic denomination

31 dated entries naming Shia Islam, drawn from 30 separate years between 601 CE and 2020 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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7th century

  • 601September 13 – Ali, central figure in Shia Islam (d. 661)source

8th century

  • 767Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi`i, Muslim imam (d. 820)source

9th century

  • 820Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi‘i, Muslim imam (b. 767)source
  • 874Muhammad al-Mahdi, the child of the eleventh Shi'i Twelver Imam Hasan al-Askari, begins his Imamate. His first period of occultation, known as the Minor Occultation, also begins (ends 941 CE).source

10th century

  • 901Abu 'Abdullah al-Shi'i leads the rebellion of the Kutama Berbers (a movement of the Shiʿite Fatimids), against the Aghlabid emirate in Ifriqiya (modern Tunisia).source
  • 909March 18 – The Fatimid Dynasty founded by Shiite Muslims in Ifriqiya (modern Tunisia) gains suzerainty over the Aghlabid Dynasty in North Africa. Emir Ziyadat Allah III escapes to the Near East, unable to secure any help from the Abbasid Caliphate to regain his emirate.source
  • 911A rebellion of the Kutama Berbers against the Fatimid Caliphate occurs. The Kutama tribesmen were previously the main supporters of the Shia regime.source
  • 911February 28 – Abu Abdallah al-Shi'i, Muslim Shia missionarysource
  • 939Ali ibn Babawayh Qummi, Twelver Shi'a scholarsource
  • 948Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid, Twelver Shia theologian (approximate date)source
  • 965Sharif al-Murtaza, Buyid Shia scholar (d. 1044)source
  • 970Al-Sharif al-Radi, Persian Shi'ite scholar and poet (d. 1015)source
  • 991Ibn Babawayh, Persian Shi'ite scholarsource
  • 995Shaykh Tusi, Persian Shia scholar (d. 1067)source
  • 996October 14 – Caliph Al-Aziz Billah dies at Bilbeis in Egypt after a 21-year reign in which he has expanded his Shiite caliphate at the expense of the Byzantines, using Turkish mercenaries (Mamelukes). He is succeeded by his 11-year-old son Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah as ruler of the Fatimid Caliphate (until 1021).source

11th century

  • 1015Al-Sharif al-Radi, Persian Shi'ite scholar (b. 970)source
  • 1017The Sunnis of Kairouan (modern Tunisia) revolt against the Shi'ite Zirid dynasty. The city is quickly retaken and sacked.source
  • 1022Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid, Twelver Shia theologiansource
  • 1041The Zirid dynasty rejects Shi'ite obedience and Fatimid domination, and recognizes the Abbasids as their overlords.source
  • 1044Sharif al-Murtaza, Buyid Shia scholar (b. 965)source
  • 1067December 2 – Shaykh Tusi, Persian Shia scholar (b. 995)source
  • 1073Shaykh Tabarsi, Persian Shia scholar (d. 1153)source

12th century

  • 1125Ibn al-Khashshab, Seljuk Shi'i magistrate (qadi)source

13th century

  • 1238al-Bahrani, Arab Shia scholar and philosopher (d. 1280)source

14th century

  • 1311December 26 – Al-Mahdi Muhammad bin al-Mutahhar, the Shi'ite Muslim Imam of the Zaidiyyah state in Yemen, leads Zaidi troops to victory in a battle in the Sheref district against the Sunni Muslim Rasulid sultanate that dominates most of Yemen. A 10-year ceasefire agreement is brokered between Zaidiyyah and the Rasulid Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Da'udsultan.source
  • 1391November 2 – Al-Nasir Muhammad Salah al-Din, Imam of the Zaydi sect of Shia Islam in Yemen, dies at San'a from injuries sustained from being thrown off of his mule. Nasir's death is not announced for two months while his son Al-Mansur Ali bin Salah ad-Din becomes the new Imam but three other claimants attempt to claim the office as well.source

19th century

  • 1850The first portion of the Oudh Bequest is transferred from Oudh State in the British Raj to the Shia Islam holy cities of Najaf and Karbala, in Persia.source

21st century

  • 2004March 2 – A series of bombings occur in Karbala, Iraq, killing over 140 Shia Muslims commemorating the Day of Ashura.source
  • 2006February 22 – 2006 al-Askari mosque bombing: Explosions occur at the al-Askari Shrine in Samarra, Iraq. The attack on the shrine, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, causes the escalation of sectarian violence in Iraq into a full-scale war (the Iraqi Civil War of 2006–2008).source
  • 2014June 5 – A Sunni militant group now calling itself the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (also known as ISIS, ISIL or Daesh) begins an offensive through northern Iraq, aiming to capture the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad and overthrow the Shiite government led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.source
  • 2020May 12 – Gunmen storm a maternity hospital and kill 24 people, including two newborn babies, in Dashte Barchi, a majority-Shia neighborhood of Kabul, Afghanistan. In a separate incident in Kuz Kunar, 32 people are killed at a funeral by a suicide bomber.source

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