Imam
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Imam is an Islamic leadership position. In Sunni Islam, an Imam generally refers to a religious leader, scholar, or the person who leads Muslims in prayer. The position is not necessarily hereditary o
Imam presiding over prayer, Nasreddine Dinet, circa 1922
Abbasid Qadi acts as Imam delivers Khutbah in Mosque on the Minbar.
Prayer in the House of the Arnaut Chief, painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme,1857
An imam reads verses from the Quran after Isha' (night prayers) in the Mughal Empire
Mahdi
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The Mahdi is the Islamic messianic and eschatological figure, who is believed to appear before the End Times to restore justice and defeat tyranny alongside Isa. He forms an important part of Islamic
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…members of the Ahl al-Bayt, the family of Muhammad. In Twelver Shi'ism there are The Fourteen Infallibles, twelve of which are Imams, the final being the Mahdi who will return at the end of times. Sunni Islam does not conceive of the role of imams in the same sense as Shia Islam: an important distinction often…
Muhammad al-Mahdi calligraphy at the Prophet's Mosque in Medina.
The Al-Askari Shrine in Samarra, Iraq, stands where the house of the 11th Imam Hasan al-Askari and his son the Mahdi once used to be. It contains the mausoleums of al-Askari, and the 10th Imam Ali al-Hadi
The Jamkaran Mosque in Qom, Iran, is belived to be the place where the Mahdi once appeared and offered prayers.