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Document Details : Title: Some Notes on the History of the Twelvers Author(s): KNAPPERT, J. Journal: Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica Volume: 25 Date: 1994 Pages: 237-256 DOI: 10.2143/OLP.25.0.583472 Abstract : notThe “Twelvers”, called in Arabic and Persian the Ithnā'ashariyya (an adjective which implies umma ‘community, congregation’), are so called because they follow the twelfth imam, Muhammad ibn Ḥasan, whose epithet ‘al-Mahdi’ indicates that his followers expect him to return incarnate to earth at the end of times to defeat the enemies of God, destroy paganism and establish God's kingdom. |
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