Twelver

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Twelver

Member of a Shiite Muslim sect who believes that the 12th imam (Islamic leader) did not die, but is waiting to return towards the end of the world as the Mahdi, the ‘rightly guided one’, to establish a reign of peace and justice on Earth.

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Isma'ili			The quietist school is powerful as most Ja'fari religious men belong to it in Iran and elsewhere in this Shi'ite faith which is based on the Twelver order consisting of the first 12 direct descendants of the Prophet Muhammad. The Iran Contrast by APS Diplomat News Service This ignores the fact that the Shiite Islam practiced by the Houthis is far removed from Iran's Twelver theology (and is often referred to as the sixth school of Sunni Islam); it also ignores the long-standing enmity between Sanaa and Riyadh. The world can no longer afford to ignore Yemen's internal convulsions by The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon) Imam Musa al-Kadhim, (Seventh of Safar, 128 AH- Twenty-fifth of Rajab, 183 AH) (Approximately: October 28, 746 AD-September 1, 799 AD), the seventh of the Twelver Shiite Imams. Attempt to bomb Imam al-Kadhim's shrine foiled by Aswat al-Iraq (Erbil, Iraq)			Tuvalu Tuvintsi Tuwhare, Hone Tuwim, Julian Tuxedo Park Tuxtla Gutiérrez Tuzla Tvardovsky, Alexander Tveitt, Geirr Tver TVP Twa Twachtman, John Henry TWAIN Twain, Mark Twain, Shania Twardowski, Samuel Tweddle, Beth Tweed, William Marcy Tweeddale, John Hay, 2nd Earl and 1st Marquess of Tweeddale Twelfth Amendment Twelfth Day Twelfth Night Twelve Tables twelve-tone system Twelver Twentieth Amendment Twentieth Century Fox Twenty-Fifth Amendment Twenty-First Amendment Twenty-Fourth Amendment Twenty-one demands Twenty-Second Amendment Twenty-Seventh Amendment Twenty-Sixth Amendment Twenty-Third Amendment Twentynine Palms Twiggy Twightwee twilight Twilight of the Gods, The twill twin Twin Falls Twining, Nathaniel Twinsburg Twitty, Victor C two cultures, the two greatest commandments Two Rivers Two Widows			Twelve-step programme Twelve-step programs twelve-stepped twelve-stepper twelve-steppers twelve-steps twelve-tone twelve-tone Twelve-tone equal temperament Twelve-tone equal temperament Twelve-tone equal temperament Twelve-tone equal temperament twelve-tone music twelve-tone music Twelve-tone scale Twelve-tone scale Twelve-tone scale twelve-tone system twelve-tone system Twelve-tone technique Twelve-tone technique Twelve-tone technique twelvefold twelvemo twelvemonth twelvemonths twelvemos Twelvepence Twelvepenny twelvepenny nail Twelver Twelvers twelves twelves Twelvescore Twelvetide TWEM TWEMP TWEN Twenex Twenhofel, William Henry Twente Compiler Generator System Twente Compiler Generator System Twente Organizational Communication Model Twente Research and Education on Software Engineering Twente Workshop on Language Technology Twentel twenties twenties twentieth twentieth twentieth Twentieth Amendment Twentieth Amendment Twentieth Amendment Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution Twentieth Anniversary Mac Twentieth Century Twentieth Century Fox Twentieth Century Fox Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

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