What country has the most Shia Muslims?
Lebanese Shia Muslims fellow Lebanese, the Maronites; this may have been due to the persecutions both sects faced. They maintained contact with the Safavid dynasty of Persia, where they helped establish Shia Islam as the state religion of Persia during the Safavid conversion of Iran from Sunnism to Shiism. Since most of the population embraced Sunni Islam and since an educated version of Shiism was scarce in Iran at the time, Ismail imported a new Shia Ulema corps from traditional Shiite centers of the Arabic speaking lands, such as Jabal Amil (of Southern Lebanon), Bahrain and Southern Iraq in order to create a
Lebanese Shia Muslims Lebanese Shia Muslims Lebanese Shia Muslims refers to Lebanese people who are adherents of the Shia branch of Islam in Lebanon, which is the largest Muslim denomination in the country tied with Sunni Muslims. Shia Islam in Lebanon has a history of more than a millennium. According to a CIA study, Lebanese Shia Muslims constitute an estimated 27% of Lebanon's population. Most of its adherents live in the northern and western area of the Beqaa Valley, Southern Lebanon and Beirut . The great majority of Shia Muslims in Lebanon are Twelvers, with an Alawite minority numbering in the tens of