shi'a in A Sentence

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    There are approximately one thousand Shi'a.

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    Shi'a mosques make up the remaining 1 percent.

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    There are few Shi'a in the country(approximately one thousand).

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    Some Shi'a scholars contend that Fatimah was Muhammad's only daughter.

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    Nearly 90% of Iranians are Shi'a and about 10% are Sunni.

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    About 65% of the Muslim population is Sunni, and 30% is Shi'a.

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    This contentious issue caused Muslims to later split into two groups, Shi'a and Sunnis.

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    Religion in Yemen primarily consists of two principal religious groups of Islam; Sunni and Shi'a.

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    Indonesia has the largest number of Sunni Muslims, while Iran has the largest number of Shi'a Muslims in the world.

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    As Muhammad's only descendents, both Sunni and Shi'a respect them, though the Shi'a place much more emphasis and value on the distinction.

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    Shi'a tradition states Muhammad was not surprised or frightened at Gabriel's appearance; rather he welcomed the angel, as if he was expected.

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    Muslim clergy in Russia and other former Soviet Republics are also referred to as mullahs, regardless of whether they are Sunni or Shi'a.

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    In the 1990s, Bahrain experienced some political instability and violence from the Shi'a majority and as a result, the government cabinet underwent some changes.

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    As Muhammad's only descendents, they are respected by both Sunni and Shi'a, though the Shi'a place much more emphasis and value on the distinction.

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    As Muhammad's only descendants, they are respected by both Sunni and Shi'a, though the Shi'a place much more emphasis and value on their distinction.

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    Masjid, plural masājid, means a place of prostration or prayer, and is often used by Shi'a for shrines to which mosques have been attached.

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    Though Iran is known today as a stronghold of the Shi'a Muslim faith, it did not become so until much later, around the 15th century.

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    Shi'a believe that these imams are chosen by God to be perfect examples for the faithful and to lead all humanity in all aspects of life.

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    The group is considered a terrorist group by Pakistan and the United States, and continues to be involved in attacks on Shi'a civilians and protectors of them.

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    Shi'a substitute obedience to the Imam; opposite of ikhtilaf ʾIjtihād(اجتهاد) During the early times of Islam, the possibility of finding a new solution to a juridical problem.

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    Religion in Iran is dominated by the Twelver Shi'a branch of Islam, which is the official state religion and to which about 90% to 95% of Iranians belong.

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    Religion in Iran is dominated by the Twelver Shi'a branch of Islam, which is the official state religion and to which about 90% to 95% of Iranians belong.

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    Twelver and Ismaili Shi'a believe that these imams are chosen by God to be perfect examples for the faithful and to lead all humanity in all aspects of life.

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    The 15-year-old bomber who was caught with explosives in Iraq this week had been in an IDP camp for a week when he was sent to blow up a Shi'a school.

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    In the Shi'a context, an imam is not only presented as the man of God par excellence, but as participating fully in the names, attributes, and acts that theology usually reserves for God alone.

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    For Shi'a Muslims, the Imam has a more central meaning and role in Islam through the concept of Imamah, the term is only applicable to those members of the house of the prophet ahl al-Bayt, designated as infallibles.

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    For Shi'a Muslims, the imam has a more central meaning and role in Islam through the concept of imamah; the term is only applicable to those members of Ahl al-Bayt, the house of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, designated as infallibles.

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    However, rising minority groups are likely to act or vote as a bloc if they share a history of abuse at the hands of the declining majority group- like Shi'a Arabs did in Iraq, or Chechens and other national identity groups did in the USSR.

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    On the other side of this equation, those loyal to Assad read these challenges conversely- and see this is an attempt on the part of Sunni Syrians to deliver‘payback' to minority communities throughout Syria- and that the nature of this conflict has become zero-sum- were Assad to lose, more or less the entirety of the Syrian Alawite and Shi'a communities will be subject to genocide and extermination.

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