The pilgrimage to Karbala is for the Shabaniya festival, which commemorates the birth of the 12th Shiite imam, Mohammed al-Mahdi, who vanished in the 9th century. Devout Shiites believe the Imam Mahdi ...
GERALD SHENK, who teaches at Eastern Mennonite Seminary in Harrisonburg, Virginia, attended a theology conference on “Madhist doctrine” in Teheran last September. (For many Shiite Muslims, the Twelfth ...
Shi'ite festival in Karbala in 2006 (AFP) August 26, 2007 -- Thousands of Shi'a pilgrims left Baghdad for Iraq's holy city of Karbala today -- 110 kilometers away -- to attend ceremonies marking the ...
Because Islam borrowed a great deal from Judaism and Christianity, it is not surprising that they too have a figure with a messianic complex—the Mahdi, or the Guided One. Muslims see the Mahdi as a ...
It has been a tradition for the Islamic Educational Center of Orange County in Costa Mesa to have its annual banquet celebration upon the birth of the most revered and anticipated apostolic Muslim ...
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