Imam Hussein died 1,323 years ago and was thus denied the leadership of Muslims that Shia believe was his right. Saddam Hussein in Najaf in the late 1990s However Muawiya's son, Yazid, contested the ...

The Shia Dawoodi Bohra community ... including mosques and schools among other buildings which date from the Fatimid era to the Ottoman era. A small but unique group According to the Indian ...

Deadly attacks on Sunni and predominantly Shia mosques in Afghanistan have occurred with increasing ... The perpetrators involved in this attack and a small percentage of others like it in Afghanistan ...