Shiist

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noun

A practitioner of fundamentalist Shiism.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

nounShiist (plural Shiists)

plural Shiists

  1. A practitioner of fundamentalist Shiism.

    ... established of a Theocratic Shiist Iraq highlights the problem of trying to establish a democracy through transplantion.

    2007, Gary Gibson, Waveform Politics; A War to End Democide, volume 3, page 100
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    ... which took them over, by either a Sunnist or Shiist hue, and whichever was the case, they existed in Azerbaijan before they came to Anatolia.

    1974, Afro-Asian Writings, numbers 19-27, page 135

    The radical sunnists wrote ahadiths about Ali to defame him and degrade the Shiaist, the Shiist did the same thing..Ahadiths were maily written to justify some malices and some sins, and to please some rulers.

    1999, To Fode: Questions sur la Bible, in soc.culture.algeria, Usenet
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