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Imam Shadi Alsuleiman, president of the Australian National Imams Council, said his organization mourned the loss of life alongside Australia’s Jewish community.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

The Ismailis are a Shia Muslim sect who revere a number of Imams, including Imam Ismail, who died in 765 AD.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2025

The Zaydis, however, accepted only five early Imams.

From Salon • Jul. 14, 2024

Through December 2022, the definition has been adopted or endorsed by a total of 1,116 entities, including 39 countries; 464 regional, state, and local governmental bodies; and the Global Imams Council.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2023

The imperial temples have one Sheik, one Khatib, from two to four Imams, twelve Maazeens, and twenty Cayuns, among whom, except in a few of the chief mosques of Constantinople, the Khatibs have the pre-eminence.

From History of the Moors of Spain by Florian, M.