Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iranian Shiite mourners during Ashura, the 10th day of Muharram, on July 6, 2025, in Tehran. Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images ...

New York City elected Shia Muslim Zohran Mamdani as mayor despite opponents weaponizing his interfaith background throughout the campaign. Mamdani is part of the Twelver branch of Shia Islam and was ...

How the Iranian uprising has transformed Shiism. The Green Movement is a revolt against theocracy. Most of its adherents are young Iranians with little or no religious motivation. Yet, an iconic ...

Since 1979, the Iranian regime has invested heavily in molding the Shia political identity around Khomeinism, reaching Shias from Bahrain to the United States. Drawing from non-Twelver Shia sources, ...

What we are witnessing right now in the streets of Tehran is, first and foremost, a political battle for the future of the Iranian state. But closely linked to this political fight is also an old ...

Palestinian scouts take part in a ceremony marking the first anniversary of the killing of IRGC commander Qasem Soleimani (portrait), Gaza City, on Jan. 4, 2021. — MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images The ...

Some have reservations about any critical analysis of political Shiism, thinking that questioning its rhetoric equates an attempt to deconstruct the respectable and authentic Islamic dogma of Shiism.

The hotel conference room was divided: men on the left, women on the right. The speaker, a compact, bearded man in a safari vest, had come to talk about current events and the Quran. In the weeks ...

Twelver Shiism is the largest branch within Shiism – one of the two major sects within Islam. Shiism is the second-largest tradition within Islam overall, following the Sunni tradition. Iran is the ...