anti-Shiitic

adjective

Relating to or pertaining to anti-Shi'ism.

Meanings

adjectiveanti-Shiitic (comparative more anti-Shiitic, superlative most anti-Shiitic)

comparative more anti-Shiitic · superlative most anti-Shiitic

  1. Relating to or pertaining to anti-Shi'ism.

    1946, Iyewd gulbfin, Jewish Telegraphic Agency anti-shiitic riot incited by black market operator […]

    2 more examples

    But this movement — although its views were compatible with the prevailing anti-Shiitic atmosphere — does not until Harun ar-Rashid's death in 809 appear able to assert itself side by side with such traditionalists as Hisham […]

    1964, Erling Petersen, ʻAlī and Muʻāwiya in Early Arabic Tradition, Page 88

    The Sunnitic protest against the transferring of this miracle to the Mahdi found expression in an interpretation forcibly put upon the well-known hadith — in itself an anti- Shiitic protest

    1909, American Oriental Society, Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 29, page 54
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