Crossword-Solution: SHIITES
We have 16 clues for the answer “SHIITES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Iraqi faction | 1 answer |
| Islamic worshippers | 1 answer |
| Major branch of Islam led by followers of Ali | 1 answer |
| Muslim group prominent in Iran and Iraq | 1 answer |
| Members of a great Moslem sect. | 1 answer |
| Minority branch of Islam | 1 answer |
| Most Iraqis, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Non-Sunnis | 1 answer |
| Some religious fundamentalists | 1 answer |
| Most Iraqis | 2 answers |
| Some Moslems. | 2 answers |
| Islam minority | 2 answers |
| Members of a branch of Islam | 2 answers |
| Certain Muslims | 2 answers |
| Some Muslims | 7 answers |
| IRAQI inhabitant(s) | 9 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SHIITES (5)
The former, who are branded with the appellation of _Shiites_ or sectaries, have enriched the Mahometan creed with a new article of faith; and if Mahomet be the apostle, his companion Ali is the vicar, of God.
Many thousands of the Shiites repose in holy ground at the feet of the vicar of God; and the desert is vivified by the numerous and annual visits of the Persians, who esteem their devotion not less meritorious than the pilgrimage of Mecca.
They are rejected as apocryphal by the Persians and the whole sect of the Shiites, and are entitled to little weight with a European.
The _Shiites_ were supporters of Ali, while the _Sunnites_, who adhered to "the traditions of the elders," were against him.
One small group still maintains itself in the neighbourhood of Medina, where it is tolerated rather than acknowledged, and a few Shiites are to be found in most of the large cities of the west, but everywhere the sect of Ali stands apart from and almost in a hostile attitude to the rest of Islam.
Quotes with SHIITES (3)
In the Muslim world, much of the violence that takes place is due to clashes between Shiites and the other major sect, the Sunni. The differences go back to a dispute over who was in charge of the Muslim faith after Muhammad died 632 years after Jesus, God’s son, walked the earth. I’m oversimplifying, but the Sunnis thought the new leader should be elected, and Shiites thought the leadership should stay within the family of Muhammad. The Sunnis, a larger faction, won the day,…
even if Noam Chomsky were right about everything, the Islamic doctrines related to martyrdom, jihad, blasphemy, apostasy, the rights of women and homosexuals, etc. would still present huge problems for the emergence of a global civil society (and these are problems quite unlike those presented by similar tenets in other faiths, for reasons that I have explained at length elsewhere and touch on only briefly here). And any way in which I might be biased or blinded by “the relig…
In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Iran's theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1954–2017).