Hidayat (poet)
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Amir Afsahaddin Hidayatullah Bey, better known by his pen name Hidayat, was a 15th-century poet and statesman who served under the Aq Qoyunlus. His only surviving work is a divan in Azerbaijani: the D
Contemporary depiction of Aq Qoyunlu ruler Sultan Khalil, in a miniature from the manuscript of Divan of Hidayat (1478).
Shia Islam
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Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam. It is rooted in the belief that the Islamic prophet Muhammad explicitly designated his cousin and son-in-law Ali ibn Abi Talib as his rightful politic
The investiture of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib at Ghadir Khumm (MS Arab 161, fol. 162r, 1308–1309, Ilkhanid manuscript illustration)
Great Mosque of Kufa, site of ʿAlī's assassination (661)
Shāh ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm Shrine in Rey, Iran, contains the tomb of ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Ḥasanī, a descendant of Ḥasan ibn 'Alī and a companion of Muhammad al-Taqī.
Battle of Karbala, painting by the Isfahan-based Persian artist Abbas Al-Mousavi, Brooklyn Museum (between 1868 and 1933)