Islam: Perbedaan antara revisi

Syiah dianut sebagai agama mayoritas di [[Iran]] dan [[Azerbaijan]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Walter Martin|title=Kingdom of the Cults, The|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yra4KhlMBYQC&pg=PA421|accessdate=24 June 2013|quote=Ninety-five percent of Iran's Muslims are Shi'ites.|date=1 October 2003|publisher=Baker Books|isbn=978-0-7642-2821-6|page=421}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Bhabani Sen Gupta|title=The Persian Gulf and South Asia: prospects and problems of inter-regional cooperation|url=https://archive.org/details/persiangulfsouth0000unse|quote=Shias constitute seventy-five percent of the population of the Gulf. Of this, ninety-five percent of Iranians and sixty of Iraqis are Shias.|year=1987|publisher=South Asian Publishers|isbn=978-81-7003-077-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/persiangulfsouth0000unse/page/158 158]}}</ref> Berbeda dengan aliran Sunni, aliran ini meyakini bahwa penerus Muhammad adalah [[Rasyidin|khalifah rasyidin]] keempat [[Ali bin Abi Thalib]] sebagai menantu dan keturunan langsung [[Bani Hasyim]], keluarga nabi Muhammad, sementara [[Abu Bakar]], [[Umar bin Khattab|Umar]], dan Usman[[Utsman bin Affan|Utsman]] tidak diakui sebagai khalifah umat Islam oleh pengikut Syiah,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Momen|first=Moojan|authorlink=|title= An Introduction to Shi'i Islam: The History and Doctrines of Twelve|url=https://archive.org/details/introductiontosh0000unse_d5k7|publisher=Yale University Press|year=1985|isbn=0-300-03531-4}}</ref> kecuali oleh sebagian kecil golongan.