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Meanings of shi'ite muslim in inglês
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"
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News of his execution has sparked Shiite protests from Bahrain to Pakistan.
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Iraq is torn between the two, though its population is predominantly Shiite.
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The alleged victim is Sunni and the policemen she accused are Shiite.
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Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani, the supreme Shiite religious authority, sat at the center.
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Al-Qaeda was bombing Shiite mosques, public markets, murdering Iraqi civilians by the thousands.
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An attack on a major Shi'ite holy site could fuel sectarian violence.
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Sunni-Shi'ite tensions threatened to boil over into a civil war last year.
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He said Shi'ite-dominated Iran did not want the Taliban back in power.
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But he said that some Shi'ite paramilitary factions had exploited the situation.
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The list of banned candidates actually included more Shi'ite politicians than Sunnis.
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I'm not even from a Shiite Muslim family.
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At least Another 52 people have been wounded as the blast shattered a Shiite Muslim mosque in Quetta.
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Rehmatullah Niazi and two of his officers were asked to step down after four attackers stormed the Shiite Muslim mosque during Friday prayers.
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Kurram is a predominantly minority Shiite Muslim region that is often targeted by Sunni militant groups such as al Qaeda and the Islamic State.
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The 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.
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They are of Tajik, Uzbek or Mongol descent and largely Shia Muslim.
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The bombs were detonated yesterday in largely Shia Muslim areas of the country.
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She is a Shia Muslim and had a temporary marriage for six months.
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It is in a mainly Shia Muslim part of the capital.
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He said it would not just be the Shia Muslim community feeling the loss.
Usage of shi'ite muslim in inglês
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Lawmakers from southern predominantly Shi'ite Muslim provinces had bickered over budget allocations.
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The Shi'ite Muslim group is stridently anti-American and is backed by Iran.
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Lebanon is the home of the Iran-backed Shi'ite Muslim group Hezbollah.
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Most of the infections were in the Shi'ite Muslim holy city of Qom.
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The attack came after Riyadh's execution of a prominent Shi'ite Muslim cleric on Saturday.
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Most of the Iran infections were in the Shi'ite Muslim holy city of Qom.
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Most of the infections have been in the Shi'ite Muslim holy city of Qom.
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In a subsequent crackdown by the government hundreds of mostly Shi'ite Muslim workers were fired.
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The country has a Shi'ite Muslim majority, but is ruled by a Sunni ruling family.
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Many Sunnis feel they have been sidelined from power-sharing by the Shi'ite Muslim-led Baghdad government.
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Paramilitary troops are stationed at the college to provide security for a Shi'ite Muslim commemoration.
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The conflict is widely seen as a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Shi'ite Muslim Iran.
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Alamolhoda is the leader of Friday prayers in the eastern Shi'ite Muslim holy city of Mashhad.
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Jan 17 - A teenager blows himself up in a Shi'ite Muslim prayer hall in Peshawar.
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The statement came at the close of a conference of Sunni and Shi'ite Muslim religious leaders today.
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Bulgarian authorities blamed Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim militant group Hezbollah for the attack, an accusation dismissed by Hezbollah.