FTP, name this sect of Shi'a Islam named for the number of imams they consider to have succeeded Muhammad.
This belief system, along with the now-defunct Akhbari and Shaykhi schools, arose from the Usuli school. The law of this school of thought allows taqiyya, or concealing belief for self-protection, and mut‘a, or temporary marriage, and uses the intellect, or ‘aql, instead of creating new laws through qiyas; that law is known as the Jafari school. Adherents of this sect celebrated Ashura during Muharram to commemorate a certain individual's death. For believers of this sect, the Great Occultation will one day end when Muhammad al-Mahdi, the last of a certain line of religious leaders, will one return. They believe in a different lineage down from Ali than the Zaydis and Isma‘ilites, or Seveners. FTP, name this sect of Shi'a Islam named for the number of imams they consider to have succeeded Muhammad.
This belief system, along with the now-defunct Akhbari and Shaykhi schools, arose from the Usuli school.
{Twelver}s or {Ithna‘ashariyyah’} [accept {Jafari} or {Imami} Shi’a or