Shiite
Britishnoun
adjective
Other Word Forms
- Shiitic adjective
Example Sentences
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There’s this assembly of experts, 88 senior Shiite clerics who have elected themselves, but they choose who the supreme leader is, right?
From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026
The position is also regarded by many followers as the leading authority for the world’s roughly 200 million Shiite Muslims.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026
Nine days after US-Israeli strikes killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and plunged the Middle East into war, Shiite clerics convened to choose the country's third supreme leader since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026
A grand ayatollah and source of emulation has the authority to make legal decisions for his lay followers and for lower-ranking clerics in Iran and the wider Shiite world.
From Salon • Mar. 6, 2026
But she learned that there were Shiite and Sunni interpretations of the Qur’an, and within any mosque there were the same variations in faith and commitment as there were in any church.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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