Shi'as

Shi·ah or Shi·a also Shi·'ah or Shi·'a (sh

) Islam

1. (Used with a pl. verb) The Shiites.

2. (used with a sing. verb) A Shiite.

adj.

Shiite.

[Arabic 'a, following, sect, from 'a, to spread, become known; see y in Semitic roots.]

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Noun

Shia - one of the two main branches of orthodox Islam; mainly in Iran

Shiah, Shiah Islam

Islam, Muslimism - the civilization of Muslims collectively which is governed by the Muslim religion; "Islam is predominant in northern Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan, and Indonesia"

religious order, religious sect, sect - a subdivision of a larger religious group

Shi'ite, Shi'ite Muslim, Shia Muslim, Shiite, Shiite Muslim - a member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs

Translations

Shia Shiah [ˈʃiːə]

A. N

1. (= doctrine) → chiísmo m

2. (= follower) (also Shia Muslim) → chiíta mf

B. ADJ → chiíta

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They accuse the government of corruption, and of meddling with the delicate religious balance between Zaydi Shi'as and Salafi Sunnis.

Yemen: Fear of failure (Front) by Yemen Times (Sana'a, Yemen)

Since then, the Egyptian press has gone into a whirlwind of frenzy, labeling Shi'as and also -- it must be strongly underlined -- members of the popular Sunni socio-political movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, as "traitors", "agents of Iran", and an "inseparable part of the 'Evil Crescent".

Politicizing Faith in Egyptian Crackdown by The Palestine Chronicle (Mountlake Terrace, WA)

But any attempt to put it back under suspicion, via Hezbollah for example, as a recent report by German paper Der Spiegel suggests, could be perceived as a way of igniting sectarian strife between Sunnis and Shi'as.

Is diplomacy an option? by Kippreport

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