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The term imamate or imamah (Arabic: إمامة, imāmah) means "leadership" and refers to the office of an imam or a Muslim theocratic state ruled by an imam

The Imamate of Oman (Arabic: إِمَامَة عُمَان, romanized: Imāmat ʿUmān) was several succession of states within the Oman proper (Arabic: عُمَان ٱلْوُسْطَى

The Caucasian Imamate, also known as the North Caucasian Imamate (Arabic: إمامة شمال القوقاز, romanized: Imāmat Shamal al Qawqāz), was a state founded

The Hiraab Imamate (Somali: Imaamtooyada Hiraab), also known as the Yacquubi Dynasty, was a Somali kingdom that ruled parts of the Horn of Africa during

[citation needed] With the exception of Zaidis, Shia Muslims believe in the Imamate, a principle by which rulers are imams who are divinely chosen, infallible

human being to get to the truth and goal. Sunnis reject the doctrine of Imamate on the basis of their interpretation of verse 33:40 of the Qur'an which

regard only Ali as the legitimate successor. Shia Muslims believe that the imamate continued through Ali's sons, Hasan and Husayn, after which various Shia

Family tree of Muhammad Imamate (Shia doctrine) Imamate (Twelver doctrine) Sunni sources, however, claim that doctrines such as imamate were formulated many

Muhakkimah were the only faction striving to restore the just Islamic Imamate, as it existed during the time of Abu Bakr, 'Umar, the first six years

The doctrine of the Imamate in Isma'ilism differs from that of the Twelvers because the Isma'ilis had living Imams for centuries after the last Twelver