Shi'a

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Etymology

From Arabic شِيعَة (šīʕa, “sect, faction, party; [collectively] followers, partisans”), as the word has been used in شِيعَة عَلِيّ (šīʿat ʿalī, “the faction of Ali; [collectively] the followers of Ali”) or الشِّيعَة (aš-šīʕa, “the Faction; the Followers”).

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Shi'a

  1. (usually with article) The branch of Islam that believes that Ali succeeded Muhammad as leader, and that places emphasis on the prophet's family.
    • 1998, Geert H. Hofstede, Masculinity and Femininity: The Taboo Dimension of National Cultures‎[1], page 205:
      In Islam, Sunni is a more triumphant version of the faith than Shia, which stresses the importance of suffering, following the founder Ali, who was persecuted.
    • 2008, J. Gordon Melton, The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena, Visible Ink Press, page 181:
      Shi’a is one of the two larger divisions of Islam, […]
    • a. 2013, Bruce Anthony Collet, Refugee Education as a Gauge of Liberal Multiculturalism: Iraqi Students in Jordan and the United States in 2013, Heidi Biseth, Halla B. Holmarsdottir, Human Rights in the Field of Comparative Education, Sense Publishers, page 158:
      Jordanians do not know what Shi’a is about, and it was very recently, [the] last few years, when we start[ed] being exposed to Shi’a.
    • 2016, Abdul Ganiy Oloruntele, The Sunni and the Shi’A: History, Doctrines and Discrepancies:
      But the Shī'a was not yet a sect; there can as yet be no division of Islam between Shi'ite and Sunni.
    Synonyms: Shi'i Islam, Shi'ism
  2. (with article, collective) The followers of this branch of Islam; the Shiites.
    • 2013, Robert Brenton Betts, The Sunni-Shi'a Divide, page 17:
      Throughout the Umayyad period, the Shi'a were confined to southern 'Iraq [...]

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Shi'a (countable and uncountable, plural Shi'as)

  1. Synonym of Shiite.

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