Talk:Imamah (Shi'a doctrine)

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1 List/Table
2 Rename
3 Caliphate and Imamah not equivalent
4 Merge
5 List and Table

[edit] List/Table

Shouldn't we have a list that covers all Imams and branches from Ali to people accepted by present-day communities as Imam (like the Aga Khans. Something like the table below from my suggestion at Talk:Caliph:

PLEASE: I know the facts below are not yet right; these are placeholders.

Twelver	Zaidi	Ismaili	Others
(1) Ali ibn Abu Talib
(2) Hasan ibn Ali
(3) Husayn ibn Ali
(4) Ali ibn Husayn
(5) Muhammad al-Baqir
(6) Jafar al-Sadiq
(7) Musa al-Kazim
(8) Ali al-Rida
(9) Muhammad al-Taqi
(10) Ali al-Hadi
(11) Hasan al-Askari
(12) Muhammad al-Mahdi

I removed the claim that the Prophet Muhammad had always insisted that Ali was his sucessor and changed it to a more neutral claim that Shias believe that he listed Ali as his sucessor due to the incident at Ghadhir Khom. I believe whoever edited it before was a Shia, and including such information removes neutrality from the article, in my mind at least.

DigiBullet 20:11, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

assalam walaykum, i have just got a question for you muslims out there weith islamic teachings how would i come to terms with a muslim being a freemaosn

email me at sassysam92@hotmail.co.uk —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.111.13.35 (talk • contribs).

[edit] Rename

Rename Imamah into Imamah (Shi'a twelver doctrine) so it corresponds to Imamah (Shi'a Ismaili doctrine), then rename Shi'a Imam into Imamah (Shi'a doctrine), change the redirect that Imamah is by then into a redirect to Imamah (disambig):

Imamah -> Imamah (disambig) - (not existing now)
- Imamah (Shi'a doctrine) - (presently Shi'a Imam)
- Imamah (Shi'a twelver doctrine) - (presently Imamah)
- Imamah (Shi'a Ismaili doctrine)

--Striver 19:30, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

I suggest there be only one page with the name 'Imamah'. The additional 'Shia doctrine' to Imamah in the title is more of a definition, and is unnecessary as there is no corresponding doctrine of Imamah in the Sunni tradition. Also, I suggest the articles Imamah (Shi'a twelver doctrine) and Imamah (Shi'a Ismaili doctrine) be merged into this page under their respective sub-sections. --Bluerain (talk) 09:58, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I view that the (Shi'a doctrine) in Imamah (Shi'a doctrine) is needed to distinguis it from the generic Imam article. I view that having Imamah (Shi'a twelver doctrine) and Imamah (Shi'a Ismaili doctrine) being merged into this article would result in overshadowing the Ismaili and Zaidi views, making them a disfavor, since its the only view having significant content. If the other would have content, we would need to split the article anyway, since it would be to big. Its more likely for the other views to evolve if they have their own articles with expand tags on them. Peace.--Striver 13:10, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Caliphate and Imamah not equivalent

An Imam is a Guide in all religious and worldly matters, and is believed to have been Divinely appointed. A Caliph, on the other hand, is appointed by the consensus of the community, and is mostly a temporal ruler, where the Quran is taken to be the only authority in all matters pertaining to religion. --Bluerain (talk) 09:28, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

I suggest the articles Imamah (Shi'a twelver doctrine) and Imamah (Shi'a Ismaili doctrine) be merged into here. There isn't much difference in the 'doctrine' of Imamah between the different communities, only in the line of succession. This article should explain the general concept of Imamah, while the actual list of Imams of the different communities come on their respective article pages, with only a link provided in this article. --Bluerain (talk) 11:39, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

And i again oppose it. If for nothing else, there are doctinal differences between the twelver and the others views.--Striver 15:59, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, but are they so different that they can't all be listed in this article? Could you list them out here? --Bluerain (talk) 07:31, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

The twelver view is much about there being exactly twelve Imams and they being sinless. And this gives much spin offs into comparision with profets, and defending claims of elevating them to actual profets. The other views do noth share this same idea, as far as i know, but i do not know enough to write about them. Puting all view in the same article gives the unfounded impresion that everybody share the twelver view. And i simply do not know what parts they do share, so i cant even write a disclaimer. In this way, it will be more vivdly displayed that they are in fact different doctrinces and it makes it more probable that somebody will go and improve the sevener view. Bro, why are you so eager to merge them? --Striver 10:38, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Imamat in these two branches of Islam are different. Henry Corbin in "History of Islamic philosophy"[1] seprates these two. These two articles look similiar because both of them incomplete. --Sa.vakilian 16:56, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Ok, is this settled, can we remove the tags?--Striver 16:29, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Ill take that as a "yes". --Striver 01:58, 1 October 2006 (UTC)