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Twelver Islam is the predominant branch of Shia Islam and Iran's state religion.
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Here is a primer on the basic differences between Sunni and Shia Islam.
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How does the division between Sunni and Shia Islam play out in Britain today?
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The Houthi rebels are from a branch of Shia Islam quite distinct from Iran's.
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The latest attack struck an area where one of Shia Islam's holiest shrines is located.
1
Twelver Islam is the predominant branch of Shia Islam and Iran's state religion.
2
Here is a primer on the basic differences between Sunni and Shia Islam.
3
How does the division between Sunni and Shia Islam play out in Britain today?
4
The Houthi rebels are from a branch of Shia Islam quite distinct from Iran's.
5
The latest attack struck an area where one of Shia Islam's holiest shrines is located.
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Taft is where one can see what could be called full-contact Shiism.
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Its population included many followers of Shiism, Iran's dominant Islamic sect.
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But on the periphery of Shiism there was always Sufism, tempering its severities.
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Shiism became a sophisticated tradition.
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Henri Corbin, the late historian of Iranian Shiism, has compared the discipline of tawil to that of harmony in music.
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Sufism and Shiism also interpreted Islam differently from the ulema, the clerics who adhered solely to the Holy Law and the Koran.
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Iranian Shiism was so noisy and overdramatic-pilgrimsweeping sentimentally at the mere mention of Hussein, and clanging their chains so histrionically on Ashura day.
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Iranian Shiism was, therefore, still continuing to see mysticism as the most appropriate tool for the discovery of God rather than pure science and metaphysics.