Answer 1
he was living in a sunni community. and so if he was shia hided his beliefs. so its not easy to judge about him. but shia Muslims believe according to his writings he has been shia. because he was a philosopher and non-shia Muslims did not have attention to philosophy.
Answer 2
some believes that Al-Farabi as a Muslim philosopher was shiite. maybe according to the philosophy of Al-Farabi, the leader of autopia has to be Imam and because of this point ws can count him as shiite philosopher.
Farabi. has written: 'Die staatsleitung von Alfarabi' -- subject(s): Arabic literature, Islamic Philosophy, Philosophy, Islamic, Political science, Translations into German 'Estestvenno-nauchnye traktaty' -- subject(s): Natural history, Early works to 1800 'Alfarabi's philosophy of Plato and Aristotle' -- subject(s): Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy, Ancient
Holy Shiite was created in 2004.
"Shiite" = an act done by force
An anti-Shiite is a person who exhibits prejudice or discrimination towards Shiites.
your question is not clear.
Shiite Muslims are located mainly in Iran. There are some Shiite communities in the Persian Gulf, Iraq, Turkey and south Lebanon.
Iraq is majority Shiite, but has a significant Sunni minority.
Yes. But they were not Twelver Shiites; they were Shiite Muslims of the Ismaili (Sevener) School.
this kind of ceremony advised and acted by the Imams Themselves as guardinaships and religious leaders of Shiite. in better word , the mourning is permissible from shiite point of view.
Certainly Iran. Iraq and Azerbaijan are also majority Shiite countries. Other countries like Lebanon and Yemen have large Shiite minorities.
Islamic revolution against the dictator caused the shiite insurgency in Yemen.
shah abbas was from household of Safi Addin Ardabili and they were from suffism and shiite.