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Show 25 The Baluch live in the southeastern speak an Aryan language These portion of Iran. akin to Persian and most of them In the northeast live the Turkomen. Russia many centuries ago. These are people Sunni. people migrated Most are Sunni and their from is Turkish language in nature. Religion Approximately Islamic religion. only 15 sect can Shiahs 95 percent of the population of Iran belongs Over 80 percent belong to the dominant Islamic sect, Sunni. percent belong be divided into several belong on The Shiah subsects, but the majority of Persian They believe that the twelve Imams of Muhammad, the founder of the Islamic the last of the twelve Imams is in come Islam, while to the Ithna Ashart group which is characterized in the twelve Imams. successors to the Shiah sect of to the hiding waiting forth to establish the universal were religion, for the by its believe the twelve and that day when he will religion (Vreeland, 1957:8). Based the Constitution of Iran (1906), this sect is the official religion of the country. Shiah philosophy concerning the people of Iran; they are the (Vreeland, 1957:8). of this effort to identify a great influence on '''famed for their profound search into the will and way of God and the human spirit. God" supernatural has A They seek profound believe with God. to identify themselves with in "fate" has been the result Their ideas on the next world are |
