Editing Shia Islam (section)

=== Holy sites ===
{{main|Holiest sites in Shia Islam}}
[[File:ImamReza(A).jpg|thumb|230x230px|[[Imam Reza Shrine|Sanctuary of Imam Reza]] in [[Mashhad]], [[Iran]], is a complex which contains the mausoleum of [[Ali al-Rida]], the 8th [[Imamah (Shia doctrine)|Imam]] in Shia Islam. 25 Million Shias visiting the shrine each year.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Higgins |first=Andrew |date=2007-06-02 |title=Inside Iran's Holy Money Machine |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118072271215621679 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424032806/http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118072271215621679 |archive-date=2016-04-24 |access-date=2017-10-24 |work=Wall Street Journal |language=en-US |issn=0099-9660}}</ref>]]After [[Mecca]] and [[Medina]], the [[Holiest sites in Islam|two holiest cities of Islam]], the cities of [[Najaf]], [[Karbala]], [[Mashhad]] and [[Qom]] are the most revered by Shīʿa Muslims.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2881835.stm |title=Karbala and Najaf: Shia holy cities |date=20 April 2003}}</ref><ref name="Sardeg">{{cite web|last=Escobar|first=Pepe|date=May 24, 2002|title=Knocking on heaven's door|url=http://www.atimes.com/c-asia/DE24Ag04.html|url-status=unfit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020603155002/http://atimes.com/c-asia/DE24Ag04.html|archive-date=June 3, 2002|access-date=2006-11-12|work=Central Asia/Russia|publisher=[[Asia Times Online]]|quote=according to a famous hadith... 'our sixth imam, Imam Sadeg, says that we have five definitive holy places that we respect very much. The first is Mecca... second is Medina... third... is in Najaf. The fourth... in Kerbala. The last one belongs to... Qom.'}}</ref> The [[Imam Ali Shrine|Sanctuary of Imām ʿAlī]] in Najaf, the [[Imam Husayn Shrine|Shrine of Imam Ḥusayn]] in Karbala, The [[Imam Reza Shrine|Sanctuary of Imam Reza]] in Mashhad and the [[Fatima Masumeh Shrine|Shrine of Fāṭimah al-Maʿṣūmah]] in Qom are very essential for Shīʿa Muslims. Other venerated pilgrimage sites include the [[Al-Kadhimiya Mosque|Kadhimiya Mosque]] in [[Kadhimiya]], [[Al-Askari Mosque]] in [[Samarra]], the [[Sahla Mosque]], the [[Great Mosque of Kufa]], the [[Jamkaran Mosque]] in Qom, and the [[Tomb of Daniel]] in [[Susa]].

Most of the [[Destruction of early Islamic heritage sites in Saudi Arabia|Shīʿa sacred places and heritage sites in Saudi Arabia have been destroyed]] by the [[House of Saud|Al Saud]]-[[Wahhabism|Wahhabi]] armies of the [[Ikhwan]], the most notable being the tombs of the Imams located in the Al-Baqi' cemetery in 1925.<ref>{{cite book |first=Laurence |last=Louėr |date=2008 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1vcfDuatockC&pg=PA22 |title=Transnational Shia politics: religious and political networks in the Gulf |page=22|publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0231700405 }}</ref> In 2006, a bomb destroyed the shrine of Al-Askari Mosque.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Karen |last1=Dabrowska |first2=Geoff |last2=Hann |date=2008 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DhJ3lRnXyXcC&dq=askari+mosque+bomb+2006&pg=PA239 |title=Iraq Then and Now: A Guide to the Country and Its People |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170102072559/https://books.google.com/books?id=DhJ3lRnXyXcC&pg=PA239&dq=askari+mosque+bomb+2006&hl=en&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2 |archive-date=2 January 2017 |page=239|publisher=Bradt Travel Guides |isbn=978-1841622439 }}</ref> (''See'': [[Anti-Shi'ism]]).