Shiite
[ʃi:ait]
Definition
(noun.) 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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Definition
(n.) Alt. of Shiah
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Definition
n. the same as Shiah (q.v.).—adj. Shiit′ic.
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Examples
- In 1169 a Kurdish adventurer, named Saladin, became ruler of Egypt, in which country the Shiite heresy had now fallen before a Sunnite revival. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- East of the Caliph, in Persia, and west of him in Palestine, Syria, and Egypt, were Shiite heretics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In Oudh there was a Shiite kingdom, with its capital at Lucknow, and Bengal was also a separate (Moslem) kingdom. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- On the other side of the shrunken Abbasid domain there was also a Shiite kingdom in Persia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They are the two chief Shiite martyrs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These Abbasids took up the tradition of the Shiite martyrs, Ali and his sons Hasan and Husein, and identified themselves with it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To this day one main division of the Moslems, the Shiites, maintain the hereditary right of Ali to be Caliph _as an article of faith_! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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