Crossword-Solution: SHIISM
We have 14 clues for the answer “SHIISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Branch of Islam primarily associated with Iran | 1 answer |
| Doctrine of the Twelvers | 1 answer |
| Dominant faith of Iran | 1 answer |
| It's prevalent in Azerbaijan | 1 answer |
| Muslim doctrine | 1 answer |
| Religious branch sometimes spelled with an apostrophe | 1 answer |
| Mideast belief | 2 answers |
| Muslim belief | 2 answers |
| Second-largest branch of Islam | 2 answers |
| Muslim sect | 4 answers |
| Branch of islam | 5 answers |
| A MUSLIM TRAINED IN THE DOCTRINE AND LAW OF ISLAM | 10 answers |
| A MUSLIM WHO REPRESENTS THE MYSTICAL DIMENSION OF ISLAM | 10 answers |
| BELIEF MIDEAST AIRLINE | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SHIISM (4)
They also--and this is their great doctrinal quarrel with the unitarian Sunites--believe in a series of incarnations of the twelve qualities of God in the persons of the "twelve Imams," and in the advent of the last of them as a Messiah, or "Móhdy," doctrines which are especially advanced by the Sheykhi school of Shiism and minimized by the Mutesharreh or orthodox.
They owe their prevalence, without doubt, to the Persian mind, which is equally prone to scepticism and credulity, and where Shiism has always had its stronghold.
The most extreme example of this was in Persia, where the austere monotheism of Mohammed was transmuted into the elaborate mystical cult known as Shiism, which presently cut the Persians off from full communion with the orthodox Moslem world.
This ancient and highly civilised people, whose character contains a great deal of the speculative, has always been ready to consider the claims of new Deistic theories, and has, in Muhammadan times, found an outlet for its speculative tendency in the adoption of Shiism, which it has made a purely Persian section of Islam.
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1998–2023).