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 Distribution of Shi'a Muslims in Lebanon | |
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| ~1,800,000 | |
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| Vernacular: Lebanese Arabic | |
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| Islam (Shia Islam) |
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Lebanese Shia Muslims (Arabic: المسلمون الشيعة اللبنانيون), communally and historically known as matāwila (Arabic: متاولة, plural of متوال mutawālin;[1] pronounced as متوالي metouali or matawali in Lebanese Arabic[2]), are Lebanese people who are adherents of Shia Islam in Lebanon, which plays a major role alongside Lebanon's main Sunni, Maronite and Druze sects. The vast majority of Shia Muslims in Lebanon adhere to Twelver Shi'ism,[3][4] making them the only major Twelver Shia community extant in the Levant.[5]
Today, Shia Muslims constitute around 32% of the Lebanese population,[6] surpassing both the once-majority Christians and Sunnis.[7] Under the terms of an unwritten agreement known as the National Pact between the various political and religious leaders of Lebanon, Shias are the only sect eligible for the post of Speaker of Parliament.[8][9][10][11]
- ^ Wehr, Hans (1976). Cowan, J Milton (ed.). Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic (Third ed.). Ithaca, New York. p. 1101. ISBN 0-87950-001-8. OCLC 2392664.
متوال mutawālin successive, consecutive, uninterrupted, incessant; -- (pl. متاولة matāwila) member of the Shiite sect of Metualis in Syria
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