Shi'a

Shia English Alternative forms en Shia Shiah Shi'ah en Schiah obsolete Etymology From en ar شِيعَة sect, faction, party; [collectively] followers, partisans, as the word has been used in ar شِيعَة عَلِيّ šīʕat ʕalī the faction of Ali; [collectively] the followers of Ali or ar الشِّيعَة the Faction; the Followers. en ar ش ي ع Pronunciation en /ˈʃiːə/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Shi'a.wav Southern England en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Shi'a.wav Southern England en iːə 2 Proper noun en usually with article Shi'a Islam. en 1998 w:Geert H. Hofstede Masculinity and Femininity: The Taboo Dimension of National Cultures 205 http://books.google.com/books?id=biIQaxmGULgC&pg=PA205&dq=%22Shia%22#v=onepage In Islam, Sunni is a more triumphant version of the faith than Shia, which stresses the importance of suffering, following the founder Ali, who was persecuted. en 2008 J. Gordon Melton The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena Visible Ink Press http://books.google.com/books?id=SOldV3dVOoUC&pg=PA181&dq=%22Shi%27a%22#v=onepage 181 Shi’a is one of the two larger divisions of Islam, a. 2013, Bruce Anthony Collet, Refugee Education as a Gauge of Liberal Multiculturalism: Iraqi Students in Jordan and the United States in 2013, Heidi Biseth, Halla B. Holmarsdottir, Human Rights in the Field of Comparative Education, Sense Publishers, page 158: Jordanians do not know what Shi’a is about, and it was very recently, [the] last few years, when we start[ed] being exposed to Shi’a. en Abdul Ganiy Oloruntele 2016 The Sunni and the Shi’A: History, Doctrines and Discrepancies But the Shī'a was not yet a sect; there can as yet be no division of Islam between Shi'ite and Sunni. en Shi'i Islam Shi'ism en with article collective The followers of this branch of Islam; the Shiites. en The Sunni-Shi'a Divide 17 Robert Brenton Betts 2013 Throughout the Umayyad period, the Shi'a were confined to southern 'Iraq [...] Derived terms en anti-Shi'a Shi'a-centric Shi'a Islam Shi'a Muslim Shi'ism Shi'ite Related terms en Shi'i Translations branch of Islam Arabic: ar شِيعَة عَلِيّ šīʕat ʕalī f, ar الشِّيعَة f Aramaic: Classical Syriac: syc ܫܝܥܗ f, syc ܫܝܥܐ f Armenian: hy շիա Azerbaijani: az şiə, az şiəlik, az şiə məzhəbi, az şiə təriqəti Bengali: bn শিয়া Catalan: ca xiisme m Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 什葉派 Shíyèpài Danish: da shia c Dutch: nl sjia Esperanto: eo ŝijaismo Finnish: fi šiialaisuus, fi shiialaisuus French: fr chiisme m Georgian: ka შიიზმი German: de Schia f Hindi: hi शिया m Italian: it sciismo m Japanese: ja シーア派 shīa-ha Kazakh: kk шиитшілдік Persian: Classical Persian: fa-cls شِیعَه, fa-cls شِیعَةْ Dari: prs شِیعَه Iranian Persian: fa-ira شیعه ši'e Polish: pl szyizm m Portuguese: pt xiismo m Romanian: ro șiism n Russian: ru шии́зм Spanish: es chiismo m Turkish: tr Şia, tr Şiilik Uyghur: ug شىئە Volapük: vo jiit Noun s * en Shiite. Derived terms en anti-Shia,anti-Shiism,anti-Shiite inter-Shia,inter-Shiite non-Shia,non-Shiite pan-Shia,pan-Shiism en Shi'ize, en Shi'ify, en Shiitize; Shi'ization, Shiification Shiastan Shiadom Shiaphobe,Shiaphobia Shiaphilia Shi'iness non-Shia Shiiteness Shi'itic Shiist Translations Shiite Anagrams en ahis HIAS HIAs HISA Hsia Siha ahis isha en Shi'ism