EXEGESIS ii. In Shiʿism Shiʿite exegetes, perhaps even more than their Sunni counterparts, support their distinctive views by reference to…

ḤAYYA ʿALĀ ḴAYR AL-ʿAMAL, a religious formula, meaning “Come to the best of actions,” included in the call to prayer…

FORĀT B. EBRĀHĪM KŪFĪ, Shiʿite(most probably Imami) Koran commentator and Hadith scholar. The dates of his birth and death are…

NOṢAYRIS, followers of Nusayrism, a syncretistic religion with close affinity to Shiʿism, whose adherents live mostly in Syria and southeastern…