Nakhawila

Nakhawila
Total population
32,000[1]
Regions with significant populations
Medina, Wadi al-Fara'
Languages
Hijazi Arabic
Religion
Twelver Shi'a Islam
Related ethnic groups
Ismailis of Najran

The Nakhawila (Arabic: النخاولة) are a community of indigenous Hijazi Twelver Shias who have traditionally resided in and around the city of Medina in Saudi Arabia, numbering around 32,000—although no official or certain figures are available.[2]

  1. ^ Marja and the Survival of a Community: The Shia of Medina], Yousif al-Khoei in "The Most Learned of the Shiʻa: The Institution of the Marjaʻ Taqlid", ed Linda Walbridge, 2001, Oxford University Press US. p, 248.
  2. ^ Werner Ende (Nov 1997). "The Nakhāwila, a Shite Community in Medina Past and Present". Die Welt des Islams. 37 (3). Brill: 316–18.