Imam is an Islamic leadership position.
Shia, also transliterated Shiah and Shiʿah, is a branch of Islam which holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor and the Imam (leader) after him, most notably at the event of Ghadir Khumm, but was prevented from the caliphate as a result of the incident at Saqifah. This view primarily contrasts with that of Sunni Islam, whose adherents believe that Muhammad did not appoint a successor and consider Abu Bakr, who they claim was appointed Caliph through a Shura, i.e. community consensus in Saqifa, to be the first rightful Caliph after the Prophet.
In Shia Islam, the imamah is the doctrine that the figures known as imams are rightfully the central figures of the ummah; the entire Shi'ite system of doctrine focuses on the imamah. Shi'ites believe that the Imams are the true Caliphs or rightful successors of Muhammad, and further that Imams are possessed of divine knowledge and authority (Ismah) as well as being part of the Ahl al-Bayt, the family of Muhammad. These Imams have the role of providing commentary and interpretation of the Quran as well as guidance.
Zayd ibn 'Alī was the grandson of Husayn ibn Ali, and great-grandson of Ali. Zayd was born in Medina in 695. He was the son of Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin. Ibn Qutaybah in his book "al-Ma'ārif", republished in 1934 in Egypt, writes that one of the wives of the 4th Shia Imam was from Sindh and that she was the mother of Zayd ibn Ali. A similar claim has also been made in the book "Zayd Shaheed" by Abd al-Razzaq al-Hasani, published in Najaf. Zayd ibn Ali's mother Jodha, known by Muslim chroniclers as Jayda al-Sindhi.
Muḥammad al-Baqir, full name Muhammad bin 'Ali bin al-Husayn bin Ali bin Abi Talib, also known as Abu Ja'far or simply al-Baqir (677-733) was the fifth Shia Imam, succeeding his father Zayn al-Abidin and succeeded by his son Ja'far al-Sadiq. He was the first Imam descended from both grandsons of Muhammad: Hasan ibn Ali and Husayn ibn Ali. He is revered by Shiite Muslims for his religious leadership, and respected by Sunni Muslims for his knowledge and Islamic scholarship as a jurist in Medina.
'Alī ibn Mūsā ar-Riḍā, also called Abu al-Hasan, Ali al-Reza or in Iran (Persia) as Imam Reza, was a descendant of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, and the eighth Shi'ite Imam, after his father Musa al-Kadhim, and before his son Muhammad al-Jawad. He was an Imam of knowledge according to the Zaydi (Fiver) Shia school and Sufis. He lived in a period when Abbasid caliphs were facing numerous difficulties, the most important of which was Shia revolts. The Caliph Al-Ma'mun sought out a remedy for this problem by appointing Al-Ridha as his successor, through whom he could be involved in worldly affairs. However, according to the Shia view, when Al-Ma'mun saw that the Imam gained even more popularity, he decided to correct his mistake by poisoning him. The Imam was buried at the Imam Reza shrine in a village in Khorasan, which afterwards gained the name Mashhad, meaning the place of martyrdom.
{{Infobox person | name = Ali ibn Husayn
علي بن حسين (Arabic) | honorific_suffix = 4th Imam of Twelver and 3rd Imam of Ismaili | image = Baghi tomb.jpg | alt = | caption = The historical tomb of Al-Baqi' was destroyed by Wahhabis in 1925. Imam Ali ibn Husayn is one of four Shia Imams buried here. | birth_name = | birth_date = c. 4 January 659
(5 Sha'aban 38 AH) Or | birth_place = Kufa, Iraq or Medina, Hejaz | death_date = c. 20 October 713 (aged 54)
(25 Muharram 95 AH) | death_place = Medina, Umayyad Empire | death_cause = Poisoning by Al-Walid I | resting_place = Jannatul Baqi, Saudi Arabia | resting_place_coordinates = 24°28′1″N39°36′50.21″E
The Twelve Imams are the spiritual and political successors to the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the Twelver or Athnā‘ashariyyah branch of Shia Islam, including that of the Alawite and the Alevi sects.
Sabé Sports de Bouna is an Ivorian football club based in Bouna.
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Payam Vahdat Khorasan Football Club is an Iranian football club based in Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan. They compete in the 3rd Division. The club is more commonly known as Payam Mashhad when it was based in Mashhad from 1976 to May 2011. The club was moved to Nishapur from May to November 2011, however due to lack of support in Nishapur, the club moved back to Mashhad. In April 2013 Ali Sheykh Eslami bought Payam Imam Reza Football Club and renamed the club "Payam Vahdat Khorasan Football Club".
Timité Oussou Sekou is an Ivorian association footballer. He is a classic Centre forward, but can also play as a Supporting Striker.
Ali Traoré is an Ivorian-born French professional basketball player for Strasbourg IG of the LNB Pro A. He also represented the France national basketball team internationally. Standing at 2.08 m, he plays at the center position.
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The Imamate in Nizārī Ismā'īlī doctrine is a concept in Nizari Isma'ilism which defines the political, religious and spiritual dimensions of authority concerning Islamic leadership over the nation of believers. The primary function of the Imamate is to establish an institution between an Imam who is present and living in the world and his following whereby each are granted rights and responsibilities.
Al-Risalah al-Dhahabiah is a medical dissertation on health and remedies attributed to Ali ibn Musa al-Ridha (765–818), the eighth Imam of Shia. He wrote this dissertation in accordance with the demand of Ma'mun, the caliph of the time. It is revered as the most precious Islamic literature in the science of medicine, and was entitled "the golden treatise" as Ma'mun had ordered it written in gold ink. The chain of narrators is said to reach Muhammad ibn Jumhoor or al-Hassan ibn Muhammad al-Nawfali who is described as "highly esteemed and trustworthy" by al-Najjashi.
17th Ali ibn Abi Taleb Division was a division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps during the Iran–Iraq War. It covered Qom, Zanjan, Semnan, and Markazi provinces.
Ali Imam or Syed Ali Imam (1924–2002) was an artist from Pakistan.
Cheick Timité is an Ivorian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 1 club Amiens SC.
Timité Bassori is an Ivorian filmmaker, actor, and writer. His lone feature-length film, Woman with the Knife (1969), is considered a classic of African cinema, and is slated to be restored as part of the African Film Heritage Project, an initiative to preserve 50 African films through the collaboration of the groups FEPACI, UNESCO, Cineteca di Bologna, and Martin Scorsese's The Film Foundation. The film is earmarked to be shown along with 4 other restored films at the 2019 film festival FESPACO.
