Shiite Definition

zhēīt
noun
A member of one of the two great sects of Muslims: Shiites consider Ali, Muhammad's son-in-law and the fourth of the caliphs, as the first Imam and the rightful successor of Muhammad, and do not accept the Sunna as authoritative.
Webster's New World
A member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali and his descendants as the legitimate successors to Muhammad and rejects the first three caliphs.
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Synonyms:
  • Shia Muslim
  • Shiite Muslim
  • shiite
adjective
Of or relating to the Shiites or their branch of Islam.
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Of or relating to the Shiites or their branch of Islam.
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Other Word Forms of Shiite

Noun

Singular:
Shiite
Plural:
shiites

Origin of Shiite

  • Arabic šī‘a partisans Shia

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Arabic šī‘a partisans Shia

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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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