Shiite Islam offers Iranians a standard it views as just. Iran calls itself an Islamic republic. Many Iranians may appreciate ...

The competition for caliph would split the faith. After Mohammed died, some thought his favorite son-in-law, Ali, should serve. A supporter of Ali was rendered as Shiaat Ali, which became “Shia ...

Indeed, Abdulhamid was planning to instate Ali Haydar as the emir when he reached maturity, a plan that came to an end with the caliph's overthrow in 1909 after the Young Turk Revolution.

It was also the day that Hussein ibn Ali died in battle, in Karbala, Iraq, in A.D. 680. ... He was killed in A.D. 661, which allowed his opponent Muawiya to become caliph.

Hasan, the son of Ali, who had briefly assumed the role of caliph after his father's death, was compelled by Muawiya to abdicate. Many early sources attribute Hasan's death years later to a poisoning.

Shaukat Ali, the Indian Moslem leader at the Indian Round Table Conference here, who has been reported to be the leading figure in the movement to proclaim the Turkish ex-Sultan Abdel-Mejid as ...