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William R. Polk
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in Fort Worth, Texas, The United States
March 07, 1929
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“Twelfth Imam is in a sort of abeyance, ready to return to earth on the Last Day.”
― Understanding Iran: Everything You Need to Know, from Persia to the Islamic Republic, from Cyrus to Khamenei
― Understanding Iran: Everything You Need to Know, from Persia to the Islamic Republic, from Cyrus to Khamenei
“So a new sort of Iranian came into being, usually called a mawla (Arabic plural: muwali). Soon, the muwali sought to regularize their status in Islam by proclaiming themselves Muslim but to keep their national identity by becoming Muslim in a particularly Iranian way. This tendency began early and was ultimately to produce the Shia sect of Islam.”
― Understanding Iran: Everything You Need to Know, from Persia to the Islamic Republic, from Cyrus to Khamenei
― Understanding Iran: Everything You Need to Know, from Persia to the Islamic Republic, from Cyrus to Khamenei
“Far to the east, across Asia in China, a Turkish general overthrew the T’ang dynasty in AD 907 and set in motion the first ripples of what would become the tidal wave that swept across most of the world.”
― Understanding Iran: Everything You Need to Know, from Persia to the Islamic Republic, from Cyrus to Khamenei
― Understanding Iran: Everything You Need to Know, from Persia to the Islamic Republic, from Cyrus to Khamenei
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