A member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs.
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Examples for "Shiite"
Examples for "Shiite"
1News of his execution has sparked Shiite protests from Bahrain to Pakistan.
2Iraq is torn between the two, though its population is predominantly Shiite.
3The alleged victim is Sunni and the policemen she accused are Shiite.
4Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani, the supreme Shiite religious authority, sat at the center.
5Al-Qaeda was bombing Shiite mosques, public markets, murdering Iraqi civilians by the thousands.
1An attack on a major Shi'ite holy site could fuel sectarian violence.
2Sunni-Shi'ite tensions threatened to boil over into a civil war last year.
3He said Shi'ite-dominated Iran did not want the Taliban back in power.
4But he said that some Shi'ite paramilitary factions had exploited the situation.
5The list of banned candidates actually included more Shi'ite politicians than Sunnis.
1Most of the infections have been in the Shi'ite Muslim holy city of Qom.
2Paramilitary troops are stationed at the college to provide security for a Shi'ite Muslim commemoration.
3Jan 17 - A teenager blows himself up in a Shi'ite Muslim prayer hall in Peshawar.
4The statement came at the close of a conference of Sunni and Shi'ite Muslim religious leaders today.
5Police said the bodies were found some 250 km west of the Shi'ite Muslim holy city of Kerbala.
1They are of Tajik, Uzbek or Mongol descent and largely Shia Muslim.
2The bombs were detonated yesterday in largely Shia Muslim areas of the country.
3She is a Shia Muslim and had a temporary marriage for six months.
4It is in a mainly Shia Muslim part of the capital.
5He said it would not just be the Shia Muslim community feeling the loss.
1I'm not even from a Shiite Muslim family.
2At least Another 52 people have been wounded as the blast shattered a Shiite Muslim mosque in Quetta.
3Rehmatullah Niazi and two of his officers were asked to step down after four attackers stormed the Shiite Muslim mosque during Friday prayers.
4Kurram is a predominantly minority Shiite Muslim region that is often targeted by Sunni militant groups such as al Qaeda and the Islamic State.
5The police won't say if religious tensions are behind the attack just after midnight on the Shiite Muslim centre in the west of the city.
Translations for Shiite Muslim