Twelvers

Twelvers, or Twelver Shia's (Arabic: اثنا عشرية ‎شيعة) are Shia Muslims that believe that God appointed twelve guides after Prophet Muhammad. These are:

• Ali ibn abi Talib (Ameerul Mu'mineen)
• Hasan ibn Ali (al-Mujtabaa)
• Husayn ibn Ali (ash-Shaheed)
• Ali ibn Husayn (Zaynul Aabideen)
• Muhammad al-Baqir
• Jafar as-Sadiq
• Musa al-Kadhim
• Ali ar-Ridha
• Muhammad at-Taqi, al-Jawaad
• Ali al-Haadi, an-Naqi
• Hasan al-Askari
• Muhammad al-Mahdi

A picture of a mosque that follows the Twelver sect of Shia Islam.

About 85% of Shia Muslims are Twelvers. Most of them can be found in Iran (90%), Azerbaijan (85%), Bahrain (80%), Iraq (65%), Lebanon (35%), and Kuwait (35%). There are also minorities in Pakistan (20%), Afghanistan (18%), and Saudi Arabia (10-15%).^[1]

Related pages

Shia Muslims

References

1. "International Crisis Group. The Shiite Question in Saudi Arabia, Middle East Report N°45, 19 September 2005" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 December 2008. Retrieved 1 April 2009.

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