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The Infallible Holy Twelve Imams(as) - Profiles of the twelve Imams.
History of the Shrine at Kadhmayn - A historical account of the shrine of Imam Musa al-Kadhim and Imam Muhammad Taqi al-Jawad, the Seventh and the Ninth of the Twelve Imams.

Qizilbash - ... Turkish/ Qezelbāš, Turkish: Kızılbaş, Azerbaijani: Qızılbaş) - Turkish for "Red Heads" - name given to a wide variety of extremist Shi'ite militant groups (ghulāt) who helped found the Safavid Dynasty of Iran. The name "Red Heads" is derived from their distinct headwear with twelve points (indicating their adherence to the twelve Ithnāˤashari Imams.
Al Kadhimiya Mosque - Al Kadhimiya Mosque is a shrine located in Kazimain, Iraq, just north of Baghdad. It is the the shrine of the Imam Musa al-Kazim, one of the twelve Shi'a Imams.
Davazdeh - The shrine of Davazadeh Imam or the Maghbareh-ye Davazdah Emam, (the shrine of the Twelve Imams), is a religious shrine and funerary mosque located in the Fahadan quarter of Yazd, Iran.
Islamic leadership - ... to Muhammad's political authority became disputed, which eventually led to the division of Islam into Sunni and Shia. Sunni's believe in the majority view on who should head the Caliphate, that he should be elected (see main article Caliphate), whereas Shia believe in divinely ordained infallible twelve Shi'a Imams for leadership after Muhammad.
Ithna-'Ashariyya - Ithna-'Ashariyya ( Ithnāˤashariyyah), also known as Twelver Shi'ism, is the largest denomination within the Shi'ite sect of the Islamic faith. An adherent of Twelver Shi'ism is most commonly referred to as a Twelver, which has been derived from their belief in twelve divinely ordained leaders, or Imams.