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Imamate

Religious and political leaders of Shia Islam
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Imamate

Summary

Imamate ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (784 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Imamate's religion is recorded as Islam[2].
  • Imamate's religion is recorded as Twelver Shiism[3].
  • Imamate is a type of Shia Islam[4].
  • Imamate's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Imamate[5].
  • Imamate's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Shia imams[6].
  • Imamate's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://islam.stackexchange.com/tags/shia-imam[7].
  • Imamate's different from is recorded as Imamate[8].
  • Imamate's madhhab is recorded as Twelver Shiism[9].

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Definition and Type

Imamate is a type of Shia Islam[4].

Why It Matters

Imamate ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (784 views/month).[1] Imamate has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] Imamate is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → Shia Islam
    Religion or worldview → Islam, Twelver Shiism
    Topic's main category → Category:Imamate, Category:Shia imams
    Different from → Imamate
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007540896405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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