Shiadom

English

Etymology

Shia +‎ -dom

Noun

Shiadom (uncountable)

1. The Shiite world.
   • 1933, Indian State Railways Magazine, volume 6, number 10:

     It seems an unwisely conferred blessing really for the Kazvini is known throughout Persia as the biggest rogue in Shiadom.

   • 2005, Muneeza Shamsie, And the World Changed, page 207:

     In the middle of Shalmi, the working-class inner sanctum of Lahori Shiadom, I find myself swept along a tide of sweat, blood and tears at four in the morning.

   • 2007, Stephen C. Pelletiere, Losing Iraq: Insurgency and Politics, page 60:

     As long as the holiest sites in Shiadom —Najaf and Karbala — were located in Iraq, the ayatollahs regarded that part of the country as their appanage, viewing as an abomination secular Ba'thists' attempts to dictate affairs in the South.