Hereditary imamate polity is the governance form recorded in this atlas for religious bodies led by a living imam whose office passes by descent. Wikipedia's article on the imamate says that in Shia Islam it refers to the divinely appointed leadership of the community after Muhammad, embodied by the Twelve Imams, which is the wider setting of this form. In this atlas the entity stands for the governance form itself, so denominations, religious orders and societies governed this way can be grouped and compared under it, while each member entry keeps its own governance facts and sources.
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Entity-backed identity for the polity value this entry already carries, resolved to the live entity it names, phase 3 bucket conversion (docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md, w-bucketconv-divmore-0929). The original fact with its own citation stays on the entry unchanged.
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Wikimedia FoundationImamate, article textQuote, Imamate, article text
In Shia Islam, it refers to the divinely appointed leadership of the community after Muhammad, embodied by the Twelve Imams.
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