Similar words: shi'ite, limited partnership, fasciitis, ship, shin, shit, shia, shimmy. 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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(31) During the mass, Shiite Muslim leader Ammar al- Hakim , son of the head of Iraq's most powerful Shiite political organization, walked into the church.
(32) Iraqi official say fighting today between government security forces and Shiite militias in the city of Basra has killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 16.
(33) Moslem caliph ( 656 - 661 ) after whose assassination Islam was divided into Sunnite and Shiite sects.
(34) It also gives the Baghdad government unsatisfactory marks, for failing to prepare for local elections and couldn't (that could) reconcile Iraq('s) Shiite (Shi'ite) Sunni and Kurd's (Kurdish) factions.
(35) Karbala, south of Baghdad in Iraq's Shiite heartland, is one of the world's holiest Shiite cities.
(36) Hezbollah was founded in 1982 by Lebanese Shiite clerics inspired by the Islamic revolutionary ideology of Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini.
(37) It is hoped that efforts to better conserve the country's myriad sites could also boost tourism, which is now heavily dependent on Shiite Muslim pilgrims visiting Iraq's various religious shrines.
(38) In holding on to his bargaining chips to the very end, he was able to build tactical alliances with Iran, on the one hand, and with the Hizbollah, the violent Shiite movement, on the other.
(39) The execution, carried out last month by Iraq's largest Shiite militia, would have been unexceptional but for one fact: The victim was one of its own.
(40) Mr. Dulame said Iraqis from the Shiite muslim majority generally prefer President Bush.
(41) In the Shiite branch of Islam, a high-ranking religious authority regarded by his followers as the most learned person of his age.
(42) Iraq's most powerful Shiite leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim died of lung cancer at a hospital in Tehran, Iraqi official television reported Wednesday.
(43) At that time, millions of Shiite Muslim pilgrims converged in Karbala, southwest of Baghdad, to mark the religious saints Imam. 700 anniversary of Hussein's death ceremony.
(44) A suicide bomber struck a religious procession here Monday,[http://sentencedict.com/shiite.html] killing at least 25 people in the latest attack on the minority Shiite Muslim community.
(45) The unique Shiite Ulama hierarchy and emulation institution provide favourable circumstances for Ulama to play its political role .
(46) Authorities had braced for large - scale protests marking the culmination Sunday of an important Shiite Muslim commemoration.
(47) The number of minarets on a mosque indicates whether it is Shiite and Sunni.
(48) The neighborhood was a battleground for Shiite and Sunni militias.
(49) A revered Shiite shrine was also slightly damaged, witnesses said. U.
(50) Officials say the first explosion struck a bus carrying Shiite Muslims to a religious observance.
(51) The US has accused Iran of arming , training and funding Shiite extremists inside Iraq.
(52) During the mass, Shiite Muslim leader Ammar al-hakim , son of the head of Iraq's most powerful Shiite political organization, walked into the church.
(53) Al Dari accuses Iraq's new Shiite - dominated government of arresting, torturing and killing Sunni scholars.
(54) Iraqi officials say fighting today between government security forces and Shiite militias in the city of Basra has killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 18.
(55) A train passenger traveling from Baghdad to Karbala, a Shiite holy city some 60 miles south of the capital, reads a prayer book.
(56) Above U.S. soldiers inspect the scene of a double bombing close to a bus station in the Shiite Muslim district of Bayah in western Baghdad on Feb. 11 2009.
(57) The explosion caused massive damage at the Imam Bargah Ali Raza mosque, a major Shiite house of worship in downtown Karachi.
(58) Car bombs struck Shiite targets around Baghdad today, killing dozens.