Shia Islam (Arabic: شيعة Shī‘ah, sometimes Shi'a or Shi'ite), is the second largest denomination of Islam, after Sunni Islam. Similar to other schools of thought in ...
The Origins of the Sunni/Shia split in Islam by Hussein Abdulwaheed Amin, Editor of IslamForToday.com. Introduction The Shia shahadah (declaration of faith) states: