Shi'a
See also: Shia
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Arabic شِيعَة (šīʕa, “sect, faction, party; [collectively] followers, partisans”), as the word has been used in شِيعَة عَلِيّ (šīʕat ʕalī, “the faction of Ali; [collectively] the followers of Ali”) or الشِّيعَة (aš-šīʕa, “the Faction; the Followers”).
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[edit]Shi'a
- (usually with article) The branch of Islam that believes that Ali succeeded Muhammad as leader, and that places emphasis on the prophet's family.
- 1998, Geert H. Hofstede, Masculinity and Femininity: The Taboo Dimension of National Cultures[1], page 205:
- 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.
- 2008, J. Gordon Melton, The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena, Visible Ink Press, page 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.
- 2016, Abdul Ganiy Oloruntele, 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.
- Synonyms: Shi'i Islam, Shi'ism
- (with article, collective) The followers of this branch of Islam; the Shiites.
- 2013, Robert Brenton Betts, The Sunni-Shi'a Divide, page 17:
- Throughout the Umayyad period, the Shi'a were confined to southern 'Iraq [...]
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[edit]branch of Islam
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Noun
[edit]Shi'a (plural Shi'as or Shi'a)
- Synonym of Shiite.
Derived terms
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[edit]Shiite — see Shiite
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