See also:

• Society: Religion and Spirituality: Islam: History  (231)

• Four Centuries of Influence of Iraqi Shiism on Pre-Safavid Iran - An online book by Rasul Ja'fariyan explores the influence of the school of Sheikh Tusi of Baghdad on the survival of Shiism in Iran.
• Shi'a - A history of the Shia community, from its origins shortly after the death of the Prophet Muhammad through to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
• Shi'i Islam - Article on the Shia branch of Islam in Encyclopedia of the Orient; includes a summary of their history, with a genealogy of the Imams.

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