Similar words: hiatus, parochial, psychiatrist, machiavellian, philadelphia, shin, shit, ship. Meaning: n. one of the two main branches of orthodox Islam; mainly in Iran.
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31, 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.
32, 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, officials say.
33, 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.
34, "I have always had a soft spot for the Shias of the south, " said Shahristani, himself a Shia Muslim.
35, If you organise a mourning demonstration for a Shia imam, you'll have 30 million behind you.
36, A fight for supremacy within the new Shia establishment has also begun.
37, Iranian officials linked the recent suicide bombing of a Shia mosque in Zahedan, in Sistan-Baluchistan, to US,[http://sentencedict.com/shia.html] British and Israeli support for the Jundullah Sunni Muslim separatist group.
38, Shia state its border , adjacent to where its own restive Shias live, would horrify Saudi Arabia.
39, At least 400,000 people, mainly in the Shia - inhabited south, have fled.
40, Police in Pakistan say a suicide bomb at a Shia Muslim procession in the city of Quetta has killed at least 50 people.
41, The Bahraini authorities say they'll dismiss charges against some of the demonstrators detained during months of anti-government protests by members of the Shia majority.
42, Karbala has been the scene of clashes between loyalists of Shia cleric al - Sadr and Iraqi forces.
43, A sectarian attack like this had been feared on what a particularly holy day for Shia Muslims.
44, Ultimately, all this will likely produce a fragmentation of the country and a proxy war between Saudi-supported Sunni and Iranian-supported Shia, with the Kurds eventually going their own way.
45, Opposition parties had urged people to take to the streets as the Shia Muslim festival of Ashura reached a climax.
46, A leading Bahraini Shia politician has returned to his country from self-imposed exile in Britain.
47, Security official said the blast occurred near a restaurant in the mainly Shia Muslim Shula district in the northwest of the city.
48, The Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the world's Shia Ismaili Muslims, has praised Canada's pluralism as an "asset of enormous global value".
49, Why not split the country into Shia , Sunni and Kurdish statelets?
50, Bahrain's Shia Muslim majority has long complained of discrimination and dominance by the Sunni minority, including the ruling royal family.