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Twelver Shiʿites

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/21369

Also known as Imāmīs

Names

  • Arabic: إمامية اثنا عشرية = Imāmiyya Athnāʿashariyya 1

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Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.1 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997

Sources

  • 1Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 2:56 [Arabic].
    • Imāmīs of the 'Twelver' sect: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), II, 324-5 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, “Twelver Shiʿites” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/21369.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; and matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
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