Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Shia Islam in Lebanon has a history of more than a millennium. According to CIA study, Shia Muslims constitutes 27% of Lebanon's population of approximately 4.3 million, which means they amount to 1,160,000. According to other sources the Lebanese Shia Muslims constitute approximately 40% of the entire population (or 1.6 million out of a total population of 4 million). Most of its adherents live in the northern and western area of the Beqaa Valley, Southern Lebanon and Beirut's southern suburbs. The great majority of Shia Muslims in Lebanon are Twelvers, with an Alawite minority numbering in the tens of thousands in north Lebanon. Few Ismailis remain in Lebanon today, though the quasi-Muslim Druze sect, which split from Ismailism around a millennium ago, has hundreds of thousands of adherents. Shias are the only sect eligible for the post of Speaker of Parliament. Within the Lebanese context, especially political, the group is seen as an ethnoreligious group.. }
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- Shia_Islam_in_Lebanon abstract "Shia Islam in Lebanon has a history of more than a millennium. According to CIA study, Shia Muslims constitutes 27% of Lebanon's population of approximately 4.3 million, which means they amount to 1,160,000. According to other sources the Lebanese Shia Muslims constitute approximately 40% of the entire population (or 1.6 million out of a total population of 4 million). Most of its adherents live in the northern and western area of the Beqaa Valley, Southern Lebanon and Beirut's southern suburbs. The great majority of Shia Muslims in Lebanon are Twelvers, with an Alawite minority numbering in the tens of thousands in north Lebanon. Few Ismailis remain in Lebanon today, though the quasi-Muslim Druze sect, which split from Ismailism around a millennium ago, has hundreds of thousands of adherents. Shias are the only sect eligible for the post of Speaker of Parliament. Within the Lebanese context, especially political, the group is seen as an ethnoreligious group.".