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this trajectory until the Twelfth 6. Fatemi
Imam, were called “Imamiyyah”. This word is mostly used in a
Imamiyyah in his historical relative sense and is used to
course according to different explain the distinction between
times, had other meanings such the children of Imam Hasan
as synonyms with Shia in the and Imam Hossein from the
time of Imam Ali; but today it children of Mohammad ibn
has the equivalent meaning of Hanafiyyah, to whom those
“Twelver”. (Shahrestani, 1956, Vol. 1) who attributed themselves;
because Mohammad ibn Hanafiyyah
4. Proper was not one of the children of
This word is mostly used in Fatimah bint Mohammad, although
jurisprudential texts and it is in he was among her children.
contrast to the popular word
meaning the majority of 7. Talebi
Muslims and means Shia. The This word has a relative
more special meaning of this meaning; but its scope is more
word in the jurisprudential than the previous two words.
texts of the “Twelver” or “Talebi” means the children of
“Imamiyyah” is that they derive Abotaleb, whose children are
their jurisprudence from the included through other than
twelve infallible Imams. Imam Ali. The exact understanding
of this word is obtained by
5. Alawi studying the book “Maghatel
It seems that this word Al-Talebin” by Abolfaraj Isfahani,
sometimes referred to the Shia in which he mentions the
theological tendency in the uprisings of all the Taliban,
sense of believing in the including the uprisings of the
superiority of Imam Ali; but sons of Ja'far ibn Abotaleb.
later it was used more in the
relative sense, which is the
expression of the relative dependence
of individuals on Imam Ali .
