Flashcards: Shia Muslims

Muhammad Baqir Majlesi (1616–1698 AD) (Persian: علامه مجلسی‎‎ Allameh Majlesi; also Romanized as: Majlesi, Majlessi, Majlisi, Madjlessi), known as Allamah Majlesi or Majlesi-ye Thani (Majlesi the Second), was a renowned and very powerful Iranian Twelver Shi'a cleric, during the Safavid era.

Jamkaran (Persian: Jamkarān‎‎; also Romanized as Jamkarān, Jamgarān, Jam-i-Karān, and Jam‘karān) is a village in Qanavat Rural District, in the Central District of Qom County, Qom Province, Iran.

The Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist, also called the Governance of the Jurist (Persian: ولایت فقیه‎‎, Vilayat-e Faqih; Arabic: ولاية الفقيه‎‎, Wilayat al-Faqih), is a post-Age-of-Occultation theory in Shia Islam which holds that Islam gives a faqīh (Islamic jurist) custodianship over people.

The Imam Reza shrine (Persian: حرم امام رضا‎‎) in Mashhad, Iran is a complex which contains the mausoleum of Imam Reza, the eighth Imam of Twelver Shiites.

Nimr Baqir al-Nimr (Arabic: نمر باقر النمر‎‎ Nimr Bāqr an-Nimr; 21 June 1959 – 2 January 2016; also Romanized Bakir al-Nimr, al-Nemr, al-Namr, al-Nimer, al-Nemer, al-Namer), commonly referred to as Sheikh Nimr, was a Shia Sheikh in al-Awamiyah in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province whose arrest and execution created diplomatic tension between Shia and Sunni governments.

The Tehran Eight was a political union of Shi'a Afghan Mujahideen mainly of the Hazara ethnic group, supported by Iran during the Soviet war in Afghanistan.

Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi (Persian: ناصر مکارم شیرازی‎‎, born 3 December 1926 in Shiraz, Iran) is an Iranian Shia marja' and religious leader.

Fadā'iyān-e Islam (Persian: فدائیان اسلام‎‎, also spelled as Fadayan-e Islam or in English "Fedayeen of Islam" or "Devotees of Islam") is a Shiʿite fundamentalist group in Iran with a strong activist political orientation, founded in 1946, and a registered political party since 1989.

Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad ibn Mahdi al-Hussaini al-Shirazi (Arabic: آية الله العظمى السيد محمد بن مهدي الحسيني الشيرازي‎‎; August 31, 1928 – December 17, 2001), commonly known as Mohammad Al-Shirazi, was a Shia Muslim author, politician and religious leader.

Grand Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani (born February 19, 1919) is an Iranian Twelver Shia Marja.

Abbas Qomi (Persian: عباس قمی‎‎) also known as Muhaddith Qomi (Persian: محدث قمی‎‎) was a Shia scholar, historian, and hadith narrator.

Shaykh Tusi (Persian: شیخ طوسی‎‎), full name Abu Jafar Muhammad Ibn Hassan Tusi (Persian: ابوجعفر محمد بن حسن طوسی‎‎), known as Shaykh al-Taʾifah (Arabic: شيخ الطائفة‎‎) was a prominent Persian scholar of the Twelver school of Shia Islam.

Hasan bin Mousa Al-Nawbakhty (Arabic: الحسن بن موسى النوبختي‎‎) was a Shia Muslim scholar, lived in the 3rd and 4th Hijri century.

Ali Mohammed Baqir al-Nimr (Arabic: علي محمد باقر النمر‎‎) is a Saudi Arabian who as a teenager participated in the Saudi Arabian protests during the Arab Spring.

Qasim ibn al-Hasan (Arabic: القاسم بن الحسن‎‎) ( Sha'aban 7, 47 AH /September 19, 668 CE– Muharram 10, 61 AH /October 10, 680 CE), was the son of Hassan ibn Ali and grandson of Ali ibn Abi Talib and Fatimah.

Sayyid Musa al-Sadr (Persian: Seyyed Musā Sadr ; سید موسى صدر‎‎, Arabic: السيد موسى الصدر‎‎; 4 June 1928 – disappeared in Libya on 31 August 1978) was an Iranian-Lebanese philosopher and Shi'a religious leader from a long line of distinguished clerics tracing their ancestry back to Jabal Amel.

Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i or Seyed Mohammad Hossein Tabataba'i (Persian: علامه سید محمد حسین طباطبائی‎‎, 16 March 1903 – 7 November 1981) was one of the most prominent thinkers of philosophy and contemporary Shia Islam.

Sayyid Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari (Azerbaijani: Məhəmməd Kazım Şəriətmədari, Persian: محمد کاظم شریعتمداری‎‎), also spelled Shariat-Madari (5 January 1905 – 3 April 1986), was an Iranian Grand Ayatollah.

Al-‘Abbās ibn ‘Ali (Arabic: العباس بن علي‎‎, Persian: عباس فرزند علی‎‎) also Qamar Banī Hāshim (the moon of Banu Hashim), (born 4th Sha‘bān 26 AH – 10 Muharram 61 AH; approximately May 15, 647 – October 10, 680) was the son of Imam Ali, the first Imam of Shiite Muslims and the fourth Caliph of Sunni Muslims, and Fatima bint Hizam, commonly known as Mother of the Sons (Persian: 'أم البنين'‎‎).

Hussein-Ali Montazeri (22 September 1922 – 19 December 2009; Persian: حسینعلی منتظری‎‎‎) was a prominent Iranian scholar, Islamic theologian, Shia Islamic democracy advocate, writer and human rights activist.

Sheikh Yasser al-Habib (Arabic: ياسر الحبيب born 20 January 1979) is a Muslim Shia cleric, the founder and the head of the London-based Khoddam Al-Mahdi Organization, as well as Al-Muhassin mosque in Fulmer, Buckinghamshire.

Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadl-Allāh (also Sayyed Muhammad Hussein Fadl-Allāh; Arabic: محمد حسين فضل الله‎‎; 16 November 1935 – 4 July 2010) was a prominent Shia cleric from a Lebanese family, but born in Najaf, Iraq, Fadlallah studied Islam in Najaf before moving to Lebanon in 1952.

Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Ebrahim Jannaati (Persian: محمد ابراهيم جناتی ‎‎, born 1933 in Shahrood, Iran) is an Iranian Twelver Shia Marja.

Sakinah (Arabic: سـكـيـنـة‎‎, "Calmness, Peace of Mind"), née Ruqayyah bint Al-Husain (Arabic: رقـيـة بـنـت الـحـسـيـن‎‎) (20 Rajab, 56 AH – 5 Rabi' al-thani, 60/61 AH; 676–680/681), was the daughter of Al-Husayn ibn 'Alī (Arabic: الـحـسـيـن ابـن عـلي‎‎) and Rubab bint Imra’ al-Qais ibn ‘Adī bin Aws (Arabic: إمـرئ الـقـيـس ابـن عـدي بـن أوس‎‎).

Ali ibn Abu'l-Hayja 'Abdallah ibn Hamdan ibn al-Harith al-Taghlibi (Arabic: سيف الدولة أبو الحسن ابن حمدان‎‎), more commonly known simply by his laqab (honorific epithet) of Sayf al-Dawla ("Sword of the Dynasty"), was the founder of the Emirate of Aleppo, encompassing most of northern Syria and parts of western Jazira, and the brother of al-Hasan ibn Abdallah ibn Hamdan (better known as Nasir al-Dawla).

The Shabak people (Arabic: الشبك‎‎) are an ethno-religious group who live mainly in the villages of Ali Rash, Khazna, Yangidja, and Tallara in the Sinjar District of the Nineveh Province in northern Iraq.

Suraqah al-Bariqi (Arabic: سراقة بن مرداس البارقي‎‎; died 698) was a companion of Muhammad and was a member of the Tribe Bariq.

Kuthayyir ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥman (c. 660 – c. 723), commonly known as Kuthayyir ‘Azzah (Arabic: كثيّر عزّة‎‎) was an Arab 'Udhri poet of the Umayyad period from the tribe of Azd.

Shia (/ˈʃiːə/; Arabic: شيعة‎‎ Shīʿah, from Shīʻatu ʻAlī, followers of Ali), is a branch of Islam which holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor (Caliph).

Narjis (Arabic: نرجس ‎‎) was reportedly the wife of Imam Hasan al-Askari (232–260 AH, c. 846 – c. 874 CE) and the mother of the final Imam of Twelver Shia Islam.

Sayyid Baraka (1343–1403) was a holy man of the commercial city of Tirmidh, and spiritual teacher and friend to the 14th century warlord Timur.