Shiist

See also: Shi'ist

English

Noun

Shiist (plural Shiists)

1. A practitioner of fundamentalist Shiism.
   • 1974, Afro-Asian Writings, issues 19-27, page 135:

     ... which took them over, by either a Sunnist or Shiist hue, and whichever was the case, they existed in Azerbaijan before they came to Anatolia.

   • 1999, To Fode: Questions sur la Bible, in soc.culture.algeria, Usenet:

     The radical sunnists wrote ahadiths about Ali to defame him and degrade the Shiaist, the Shiist did the same thing..Ahadiths were maily written to justify some malices and some sins, and to please some rulers.

   • 2007, Gary Gibson, Waveform Politics; A War to End Democide, volume 3, page 100:

     ... established of a Theocratic Shiist Iraq highlights the problem of trying to establish a democracy through transplantion.