shi'ite in English

noun
1
an adherent of the Shia branch of Islam.
adjective
1
of or relating to Shia.

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1. Amal (Arabic ‘hope’, in full Afwaj al-Muqawamaal-Lubnaniyya ‘Masses of the Lebanese Resistance’) Lebanese Shi'ite political movement

2. Amal was established (1974) by Musa Sadr to press for greater Shi'ite political representation in Lebanon.In 1982, it split into extremist and moderate groups.

3. The Iraqi government's council of ministers has voted to approve a three-year military pact with the United States, despite the bitter opposition of several hardline Shi'ite leaders.

4. Following the Iraqi defeat in the war, he was given the task of quelling the uprisings in the Shi'ite south of Iraq as well as the Kurdish north.

5. 18 Iranian government TV showed what appeared to be large crowds of Shi'ite Muslims marching in the streets of the city of Zahedan behind a funeral cortege.

6. Tehran, by virtue of its historical relationships with the Shi'ite parties and the Kurdish leadership, may wield greater influence than Washington in Baghdad, but it does not pull the strings.

7. Alawites are adherents of a syncretistic belief with close affinity to Shi'ite Islam and, importantly, the Assad family is Alawite. But despite their crucial role in the unfolding struggles in Syria, they are little known outside the region.