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Shia Islam (/ ˈ ʃ iː ə /) is the second-largest branch of Islam.It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib (r. 656 – 661 CE) as his successor (khalīfa) and the Imam (spiritual and political leader) after him, most notably at the event of Ghadir Khumm, but was prevented from succeeding Muhammad as the leader of the Muslims as a result of the choice made by ...
SHI International Corp. (commonly referred to as SHI), headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey, is a privately owned provider of IT infrastructure, end-user computing, cybersecurity, and IT optimization products and services. SHI has customers in the non-profit, private, and public sectors. [1] It has 6,000 employees across more than 35 offices ...
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Microsoft's best-known software products are the Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft 365 suite of productivity applications, and the Edge web browser.
IPA. [xǔ xâɪ] Old Chinese. Baxter–Sagart (2014) *Ga-gə′. Qin Er Shi (230/222 – c. October 207 BC [2]) was the second emperor of the Qin dynasty from 210 to 207 BC. The son of Qin Shi Huang, he was born as Ying Huhai. He was put on the throne by Li Si and Zhao Gao, circumventing Fusu, Ying's brother and the designated heir.
Qin's wars of unification were a series of military campaigns launched in the late 3rd century BC by the state of Qin against the other six powers remaining in China — Han, Zhao, Yan, Wei, Chu and Qi. Between 247 and 221 BC, Qin had developed into one of the most powerful of China's Seven Warring States that coalesced in the wake of the Zhou ...
Usulis ( Arabic: اصولیون, Persian: اصولیان) are the majority Twelver Shi'a Muslim group. They differ from their now much smaller rival Akhbari group in favoring the use of ijtihad (i.e., reasoning) in the creation of new rules of fiqh; in assessing hadith to exclude traditions they believe unreliable; and in considering it ...
t. e. Abu Abdallah al-Husayn ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Zakariyya, [1] better known as Abu Abdallah al-Shi'i ( Arabic: ابو عبد الله الشيعي, romanized : Abū ʿAbd Allāh ash-Shīʿī ), was an Isma'ili missionary ( dāʿī) active in Yemen and North Africa. He was successful in converting and unifying a large part of the Kutama ...
Geographic coordinates. 29°16′07″N 88°52′12″E / . 29.26861°N 88.869940°E. / 29.26861; 88.869940. Architecture. Founder. 1st Dalai Lama. Tashi Lhunpo Monastery ( Tibetan: བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ་) is an historically and culturally important monastery in Shigatse, the second-largest city in Tibet ...