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Meanings of Shiah in English
Synonyms
Examples for "Shia"
Examples for "Shia"
1
They said the attack took place in the Shia district of Shaab.
2
Four car bombs hit Shia districts of the Iraqi capital yesterday afternoon.
3
In southern Iraq, the battle for votes between Shia parties is intensifying.
4
They are thought to include Shia who took part in anti-government protests.
5
As Shia Muslims, they differed from the main Sunni branch of Islam.
Usage of Shiah in English
1
The call to prayer from the minarets was adapted to Shiah taste.
2
The Shiah, however, gradually evolved ideas that seemed even closer to Christian incarnation.
3
He had subjugated Eastern Persia by that time and founded the Shiah religion.
4
The various branches of the Shiah traced the divine succession differently.
5
He might have been a Sûni-but he was a Shiah.
6
Had the sovereignty not been Shiah, it would long ago have disappeared between its Sunni neighbours.
7
This was particularly evident in the Shiah.
8
Accordingly, the reconciliation of Sunni and Shiah has long been a cardinal point of policy with the Porte.
9
Even though he did not like the Shiah, he believed that Sunnis and Shiis should find common ground.
10
He was determined to wipe out Sunnism and forced the Shiah on his subjects with a ruthlessness rarely attempted before.
11
Imam (Arabic) In the Shiah (q.v.)
12
Not surprisingly, they inspired a similar intransigence among the Sunnis of the Ottoman Empire, who suppressed the Shiah in their territories.
13
They opposed the luxury of the Ummayad and Abbasid courts but were not in favour of the revolutionary tactics of the Shiah.
14
Finally Ali became the fourth Caliph in 656: the Shiah would eventually call him the first Imam or Leader of the ummah.
15
The Shiah was perhaps the form of Islam best suited to carry out this project, because of its cult of the wise Imam.
16
Bagdad early harboured within its walls a number of communities imbued with Shiah doctrine, and the Persian conception of God silently, but widely prevailed.