Similar words: Muslim, sunni muslim, muslin, amuse, amused, shamus, shia, amusing. Meaning: n. a member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs.
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1 Imam Ali, the prophet's son-in-law, is regarded by Shia Muslims as the heir to Mohammed's spiritual authority.
2 Most Azerbaijanis (or Azeris) are Shia Muslim.
3 Shia Muslim women attend the festival of Arbaeen, one of the holiest days in their religious calendar, at the Imam Abbas shrine in Karbala, Iraq.
4 The suicide blast targeted the funeral of a Shia Muslim man who gunned down on Thursday.
5 In the Shia Muslim tradition, there is asimilar institution called Nikah Mut'ah (marriage for pleasure), in which themarriage is entered into with a pre-ordained termination point, like a carrental.
6 Bahrain's Shia Muslim majority has long complained of discrimination and dominance by the Sunni minority, including the ruling royal family.
7 To the east was the Afghan Taliban, a regime that espoused a ruthless brand of Sunni Islam and viewed Iran's Shia Muslim leaders as heretics.
8 What sets it apart is Mr Allawi's angle of vision, as a thoughtful Shia Muslim intellectual, loyal to his community but determined to be fair-minded .
9 Government ministers accused agents provocateurs linked to Sunni Muslim militants of deliberately panicking the huge crowd of Shia Muslim pilgrims into a stampede.
10 At least 30 people have been killed and dozens injured in a suicide bombing on a Shia Muslim march in the Pakistani city of Karachi,(www.Sentencedict.com) officials say.
11 Xinhua News: Iraqi police said 12, the day the city of Samarra in northern Iraq suicide bombings, killing at least 10 Shia Muslim pilgrims died.
12 "I have always had a soft spot for the Shias of the south, " said Shahristani, himself a Shia Muslim.
13 Police in Pakistan say a suicide bomb at a Shia Muslim procession in the city of Quetta has killed at least 50 people.
14 Opposition parties had urged people to take to the streets as the Shia Muslim festival of Ashura reached a climax.
15 Security official said the blast occurred near a restaurant in the mainly Shia Muslim Shula district in the northwest of the city.
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