Shiite Synonyms

zhēīt
A member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. shiite
  2. Shiite Muslim
  3. Shia Muslim

Words Related to Shiite

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. sunnite
  2. shia
  3. shi-ite
  4. sunni-muslim
  5. sunni
  6. shi-a
  7. shiites
  8. shi-ites
  9. sunnis
  10. Muqtada
  11. al-Sadr
  12. najaf
  13. shi1i
  14. sadr

Shiite Sentence Examples

  • The Caucasian races (except the Gregorians), together with the Turks and Tatars, are Mussulmans of the Sunnite sect (2,021,300), and the Iranian races mostly Mussulmans of the Shiite sect (884, too).

  • Omar II., however, extended to non-Arabic Moslems immunity from all taxes except the zakat (poor-rate), with the result that a large number of Persians, who still smarted under their defeat, under Mokhtar, embraced Islam and drifted into the towns to form a nucleus of sedition under the Shiite preachers.

  • The Sunnite Turk was almost a greater enemy to his neighbor the Shiite than the formidable Muscovite, who had curtailed him of Rupture so large a section of his territory west of the Caspian.

  • The name of mandi is also given by the Shiite Mahommedans to the last of the imams of the house of `Ali.

  • A great religious difference divided the Fatimite caliph of Cairo, the head of the Shiite sect, from the Abbasid caliph of Bagdad, who was the head of the Sunnites.

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