ayatollah

high-ranking title given to Usuli Twelver Shī'a Muslim clerics

Facts

8 properties
Instance of
title of honor, Islamic religious occupation[6]
Religion or worldview
Islam, Shia Islam[4][5]
Part of
Muslim clergy[8]
Named after
Allah[7]
Native label
آیت‌الله[10]
🏷️ Also known as
en ayatollah en Ayatullah en ʾĀyat-u Allāh ar آيه الله ar آية الله العظمى ar آية الله ar اية الله cs ájatolláh cs ajatolláh da Ayatullah da Storayatollah da Storayatullah de Ayatollah de Ajatolla de Ajatollah el αγιατολάχ es ayatolá es ayalolá es ayatollah es ayalola
🔖 Identifiers · 21
GND ID
4698435-5
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Grand Ayatollahs 03.jpg ↗
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300025755
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/15014
BNCF Thesaurus ID
77337
Dewey Decimal Classification
297.61, 297.092
Freebase ID
/m/0h41s
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
ayatolla
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
1844140
Hrvatska enciklopedija ID
1029
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
ayatollahs
KBpedia ID
Ayatollah
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Lex ID
ayatollah
Namuwiki ID
아야톨라
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3866608
TDV Encyclopedia of Islam ID
ayetullah
The Oxford Dictionary of Islam ID
254
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women ID
0088
Topic's main category
Category:Ayatollahs
Vikidia article ID
fr:Ayatollah
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
09846347-n

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Religion or worldview 2
Founded entities 1
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Named after 1
Subtypes 1
Topic's main category 1
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Summary

ayatollah is a title of honor[1]. ayatollah is a type of Islamic cleric[2] and Shia Muslim[3].

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