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Twelver Shi'ism

branch of Shia Islam admitting 12 imams as the successors of Muhammad

10 dated entries naming Twelver Shi'ism, drawn from 10 separate years between 745 CE and 1022 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.

Also written as Twelver, Twelvers in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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8th century

  • 745Musa al-Kadhim, seventh Twelver Shī‘ah imām (d. 799)source
  • 765Ali al-Ridha, Shī‘ah Imām and Muslim scholar (d. 818)source
  • 766Abdullah al-Aftah, Shī‘ah Imam and Muslim scholarsource
  • 799September 4 – Musa al-Kadhim, seventh Twelver Shī‘ah Imam (b. 745)source

9th century

  • 811Muhammad al-Jawad, ninth Twelver Shī'ah Imām (d. 835)source
  • 835Muhammad al-Jawad, 9th Twelver Shī'ah Imām (b. 811)source
  • 869Muhammad al-Mahdi, Muslim Twelver Shī‘ah Imāmsource
  • 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

  • 948Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid, Twelver Shia theologian (approximate date)source

11th century

  • 1022Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid, Twelver Shia theologiansource

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