Jaafari may refer to:
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Jaʽfari jurisprudence
Jaʿfarī jurisprudence ( ar, الفقه الجعفري; also called Jafarite in English), Jaʿfarī school or Jaʿfarī fiqh, is the school of jurisprudence (''fiqh'') in Twelver and Ismaili (including Nizari) Shia Islam, named after the sixth ...
, the Juridical school followed by Twelver and Nizari Shi'a, named after Ja'far al-Sadiq
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Al-Ja'fari
Ja'fari ( ar, الجعفري fa, جعفری) is a surname commonly associated with descendants of Ja'far al-Sadiq, an important Muslim scholar and the Imamah (Shia), 6th Shia Imam. In South Asia, Persia and the Levant, those of this genealogy, als ...
, a surname commonly associated with descendants of Ja'far al-Sadiq, including notable people with the surname
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Ja'far al-Sadiq
Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣādiq ( ar, جعفر بن محمد الصادق; 702 – 765 CE), commonly known as Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq (), was an 8th-century Shia Muslim scholar, jurist, and theologian.. He was the founder of th ...
(702-765), holy Sixth Imam for the majority of Shia Muslims
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Jaʽfar
Jafar ( ar, جَعْفَر), meaning in Arabic "small stream/rivulet/creek", is a masculine Arabic given name, common among Muslims especially Arabs
It may also be transliterated Jafar, Jaffar, Jafer, Jaffer, Jafur or, in Egyptian Arabic pronunc ...
, a given name common among Shia Muslims
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Twelver Shi’ism
Twelver Shīʿīsm ( ar, ٱثْنَا عَشَرِيَّة; '), also known as Imāmīyyah ( ar, إِمَامِيَّة), is the largest branch of Shīʿa Islam, comprising about 85 percent of all Shīʿa Muslims. The term ''Twelver'' refers t ...
, the largest branch of Shia Islam
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Nizari Isma'ilism
The Nizaris ( ar, النزاريون, al-Nizāriyyūn, fa, نزاریان, Nezāriyān) are the largest segment of the Isma'ilism, Ismaili Muslims, who are the second-largest branch of Shia Islam after the Twelvers. Nizari teachings emphasize ...
, the second largest branch of Shia Islam
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