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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Shia

also Shiah, 1620s, a collective name for one of the two great Muslim sects, from Arabic shi'ah "partisans, followers, sect, company, faction" (from sha'a "to follow"). This is the proper use, but it commonly is used in English to mean "a Shiite." In Arabic, shi'ah is the name of the sect, shiya'iy is a member of the sect.\n

\nThe branch of Islam that recognizes Ali, Muhammad's son-in-law, as the lawful successor of the Prophet; the minority who believed, after the death of the Prophet, that spiritual and political authority followed his family line, as opposed to the Sunni, who took Abu Bakr as the political leader of the community. The Arabic name is short for Shi'at Ali "the party of Ali."

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Shia (disambiguation)

Shia refers to the second largest denomination of Islam.

Shia or Shias may also refer to:

  • Shia, Iran, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran
  • Shias, Iran, a village in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran
  • Shia Masjid, one of the largest Shia mosques in Lahore, Pakistan
  • Wasā'il al-Shīʿa, a reputable book of hadith in Shia Islam
  • Shia LaBeouf (born 1986), American actor
  • Shia, a character from the manga Pita-Ten
  • Soekarno–Hatta International Airport

Usage examples of "shia".

Shias from the Iranian province of Daylam south of the Caspian Sea, the Buwayhids continued to permit Sunni Abbasid caliphs to ascend to the throne.

The Safavids, who were the first to declare Shia Islam the official religion of Iran, sought to control Iraq both because of the Shia holy places at An Najaf and Karbala and because Baghdad, the seat of the old Abbasid Empire, had great symbolic value.

Persecution of Shia Imams during the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates reinforced the need for taqiyah .

Beginning in the sixteenth century, when the Ottoman Sunnis favored their Iraqi coreligionists in the matter of educational and employment opportunities, the Shias consistently have been denied political power.

Shia doctrine of the Imamate was not fully elaborated until the tenth century.

Although the Shias had been underrepresented in government posts in the period of the monarchy, they made substantial progress in the educational, business, and legal fields.

The other Grand Ayatollahs sat facing him, and behind them were the many other Mujtahids and senior Mullahs and clerics of the Shia Muslim faith.

His acceptance of, and strict, pious adherence to, the pillars of the Shia faith at such an early age had been a marvel to the older clerics and Ayatollahs who had spent decades obtaining the same levels of single-mindedness and dedication.

Within the Shia faith, our Mullahs, senior clerics and Ayatollahs have had access to these writings for many centuries, and have used them as reference material to the Holy Koran.

Who says the Sunni and Shia can't get together to fight the jihad?

That such a young pupil could so quickly master shaheda (confession of the faith), nampz (the Shia ritual prayers), zakat (the giving of alms), saum (fasting and contemplation) and Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina) was not only unprecedented.