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Meanings of shiism in English
Group of denominations of Islam which holds that Muhammad designated Ali as his successor and leader (imam), whose adherents form the majority of the population in Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan, and Bahrain.
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Usage of shiism in English
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Taft is where one can see what could be called full-contact Shiism.
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Its population included many followers of Shiism, Iran's dominant Islamic sect.
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But on the periphery of Shiism there was always Sufism, tempering its severities.
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Shiism became a sophisticated tradition.
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Henri Corbin, the late historian of Iranian Shiism, has compared the discipline of tawil to that of harmony in music.
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Sufism and Shiism also interpreted Islam differently from the ulema, the clerics who adhered solely to the Holy Law and the Koran.
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Iranian Shiism was so noisy and overdramatic-pilgrimsweeping sentimentally at the mere mention of Hussein, and clanging their chains so histrionically on Ashura day.
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Iranian Shiism was, therefore, still continuing to see mysticism as the most appropriate tool for the discovery of God rather than pure science and metaphysics.
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Shiism through the time