| The only upside is that for a while, sectarian suspicions were put on hold as Sunni mosques organized relief for Shi'ite families. |
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| It was first created in Lebanon in 1975 by Imam Mussa Sadr, an Iranian mullah who had become leader of the Shi'ite community there. |
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| In the same century, the Buyids, a Persian clan that was also Shi'ite in loyalty, managed to take over the ailing Abassid caliphs in Baghdad. |
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| He argued that moral force would win the day, drawing on the Shi'ite themes of martyrdom and self-sacrifice. |
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| Yesterday, fierce fighting continued across Iraq between American forces and insurgents from both the Sunni and Shi'ite populations. |
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| The city, which has a mix of Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims, was almost deserted. |
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| Shi'ite sheikhs could represent their small tribal constituencies, just as Sunni sheikhs could represent their followers. |
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| The Sunnis will never accept Shi'ite rule, and the continuing resistance will eventually lead to civil war. |
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| Sunni and Shi'ite worshippers arrived at Baghdad's large Um al-Qura mosque to pray together but then went their separate ways. |
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| Kurdish politicians were defiant, rebuffing the Shi'ite alliance's attempts to blame them for the deadlock. |
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| He was a member of the small Alawite Shi'ite community in a country of predominantly Sunni Muslims. |
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| To promote Shi'ism the Safavids brought in scholars from Shi'ite countries to form a new religious elite. |
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| In other words, will Shi'ites vote for a Shi'ite party regardless of its stance on democracy? |
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| In it, he revealed that his mother was a Shi'ite and his father a Sunni. |
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| Increased importance was placed on the divine rights and the infallibility of Shi'ite Imams and they were gradually elevated to the position of prophets. |
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| We know the tenets of the Wahabi and al-Qaeda policies that look at many of the Shi'ite community as apostate. |
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| There is no Sunni or Shi'ite Iraqi who wants to divide his country. |
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| Subsequent attacks on Sunni mosques were blamed on Shi'ite militants. |
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| Yesterday was the first day of Ramadan for Iraq's Shi'ite majority. |
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| In 1920, under a League of Nations mandate, the British ruthlessly crushed a Shi'ite uprising, installing members of the Sunni minority as rulers of Iraq. |
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| He expressed fears of worsening violence should Sunni insurgents overrun Shi'ite sacred sites in the country. His observations were sound. |
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| How do you feel about the way the new Iraqi state is being put together, and the growing discontent of the Shi'ite community? |
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| The matter of spiritual and temporal leadership in Shi'ite Iran is still evolving. |
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| The Shi'ite militias funded by Iran are playing a destructive role in Iraqi political life by helping to strengthen sectarian rivalries. |
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| Meanwhile, Iran is already working to shore up its Shi'ite allies in Baghdad. |
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| A second roadside bomb exploded south of Baghdad in an apparent attack on a Shi'ite convoy stationed there. |
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| Bahrain's government also ordered Gulf Air to withdraw from three key markets Iran, Iraq and Lebanon amid fears that foreign Shi'ite militia were stoking sectarian conflict. |
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| Iraqi security sources estimate more than a thousand mainly Shi'ite troops were killed during the capture of Mosul while others deserted their army, complaining about their leadership's lack of training and equipment. |
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| One of Iran's most senior clerics has predicted the fall of Saudi Arabia's ruling family following the kingdom's execution of Shi'ite preacher Nimr al-Nimr. |
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| The first item on the agenda, the international investigation into the assassination of Prime Minister, Rafic Hariri, moved forward mainly due to the relatively conciliatory attitude of the Shi'ite party Hezbollah. |
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| Large Shi'ite communities along this belt were forced to flee to Shi'ite southern Iraq. |
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| A senior Shi'ite cleric has described a US report on religious freedom in Bahrain as an attempt to divide the country along sectarian lines. |
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| None of the Sunni caliphates or imamates and Shi'ite imamates has succeeded. |
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| A similar number returned with the help of Afghanistan's embassy in Teheran or the Iranian-backed Hezb e Wahadat, the country's main Shi'ite political party. |
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| By the time he assumed the office of Supreme Guide in 1979 he was the primus inter pares of the Grand Ayatollahs in the Shi'ite clerical establishment in Iran in terms of prestige and political stature. |
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| But while Joumblatt and the anti-Syrians wanted to bring about the disarmament of the Shi'ite party at any cost, Nasrallah and Shi'ite Nabih Berri were opposed to this. |
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| On various occasions since the 2011 Arab Spring of revolts, Shaikh Nimr led Shi'ite protest against Riyadh and the Wahhabi religious establishment. |
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| And the staying fanatic Muslims are racing against each other to revive ancient and mostly failed theocracies, be they Shi'ite imamates or Sunni caliphates. |
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| In al-Arabiya's programme, the experts delved into the motives of Iran's Twelver Shi'ite sect, its motives, its batiniyya concepts, and its taqiya. |
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| In 1330, the archipelago became a tributary state of the rulers of Hormuz, though locally the islands were controlled by the Shi'ite Jarwanid dynasty of Qatif. |
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| But often her inquiry stops at a careful doxography of Ibn Abi Jumhur and neglects to explore the function of certain doctrines in the overall system of Shi'ite theology. |
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| Hakim al-Zamili, a leading Shi'ite Arab politician in Baghdad, last week said PM Abadi had no choice other than requesting Russian air-strikes against ISIS on Iraqi soil. |
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