They had feared ISIS fighters and their Sunni allies would unleash a massacre of the predominantly shiite townsfolk. |
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Although still uncertified, the numbers announced today show a decisive victory for Iraq's Shiite population. |
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He is a Shiite Afghan by nationality who was raised in a farming community close to the Iranian border. |
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The situation had deteriorated in 1085 when the Almoravid Berbers from Morocco united Andalusia under a Shiite regime. |
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Sadr's decision will also exacerbate sectarian tensions between the Sunni and Shiite elite. |
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Shiites highlighted the Arab roots of Shiism and defended Shiite poets of the Abbasid period whom Sunni writers depicted as shuubis. |
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Almost all of them are Iraqi Muslims, and they come from both Sunni and Shiite families. |
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There would be two Shiite provinces, two Sunni Arab provinces, and one Kurdish one. |
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They met in Cairo a few days ago with representatives of the Sunni and Shiite communities in Iraq. |
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Millions of pilgrims are expected to walk between Najaf and Karbala and other Shiite strongholds in Iraq. |
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Sunni versus Shiite violence has made the dream of a land of the pure just that. |
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The risk now is that the mutually hostile Sunni and Shiite factions might come together in an anti-American alliance. |
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For example, Shiite Americans or Shiite Muslims were strong supporters of the war. |
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Sunni Muslims and Shiite Muslims recognize different lines of succession from Muhammad. |
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The Kurds in the north, the Sunni Arabs north and west of Baghdad, and the Shiite Arabs of the south and center inhabit vast swaths of territory. |
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The British relied strongly on the Sunni elite, which grabbed power and privilege for itself, alienating the Shiite heartland. |
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In the 11 th century in the Middle East the Shiite sect known as the Assassins would eat hashish before murdering civilian foes. |
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The majority Shiite population boycotted the election and was poorly represented in the lower house. |
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The Shiite Safavids ruled Iraq in the late 1500s and early 1600s under Shah Abbas. |
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Eventually, a new dictator, perhaps a Shiite ayatollah, takes control and forms a passionately anti-American government. |
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The chief ayatollah of the Shiite Muslims in Iraq says he wants direct democratic elections to take place. |
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Shiite suspicions of the American troop increase reflect a tectonic shift in the political realities here. |
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At Friday prayers in the two cities holy to Shiite Muslims, hope as well for an end to the daily barrage of artillery and gunfire. |
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Hundreds of Shiite worshippers, weeping and moaning in grief, beat their chests in mourning. |
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Throughout the sector, as in other areas of southern Lebanon, small mainly Shiite villages nestle in the valleys. |
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It is being bruited about that the council will have a Shiite majority, though the religious Shiite parties will not be allowed to dominate it. |
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The head of state is not the president but the supreme leader, who is chosen from among Shiite clerics. |
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Syria is a Sunni-majority country chafing under rule by a clique of Allawites, a Shiite sect, who control the secular Syrian Baath. |
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He's one of only five living Grand Ayatollahs and is Iraq's most senior Shiite cleric. |
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Consider the town of Bamiyan, in the isolated, ice-bound northwest region dominated by the Hazara, the country's Shiite minority. |
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In a worst case scenario, Shiite judges could use this paragraph to allow the Grand Ayatollah's fatwas to over-rule secular legislation. |
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Likewise, when the US attempted to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr, it enraged the ghetto Shiite youth, many of whom took up arms against the US forces for the first time. |
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Prime Minister nuri al-Maliki, a leader of the Shiite majority, issued over the weekend an arrest warrant for Hashemi. |
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Iran and Hezbollah, both Shiite, see Assad as a bulwark against Sunni influence. |
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The Shiite Muslims subsequently established the Abbasid as the caliph. |
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They were not brought out in the thousands to protect a preplanned procession of the already vulnerable Shiite community. |
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Shiite religious leaders don't want powerful regions that would dilute their national clout, and there's always the danger the country could splinter. |
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In early 2008, Shiite militiamen gunned down my husband in a drive-by shooting. |
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There have also been episodic rocket attacks on Bekaa Valley Shiite towns fired from Syrian rebel-held positions. |
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Yet by and large, today's Shiite clerics in Iraq view the revolutionism of their predecessors as outdated, and few yearn to implement those designs in Iraq. |
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He said in an interview that he would never allow direct talks with the coalition, but said discussions were being led by Iraq's four leading Shiite ayatollahs. |
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The Omayyad dynasty of caliphs ruled from Damascus until 750, when Shiite Muslims, who descended from the caliph Ali, massacred the Omayyad family. |
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A former prime minister, Ayad Allawi, is a Shiite with humongous support among Sunnis. |
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Most Baluchis are Sunnis and are afraid of the Shiite hardliners. |
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Mr. Rafsanjani traveled over the weekend to the northeastern city of Mashad to discuss the postelection political crisis with high-ranking Shiite clerics. |
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Shiites have nourished that dream ever since their failed revolt against the British in 1920, when the plan of Shiite clerics to dominate Iraq misfired. |
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That is an indisputably Shiite name, which brought me up short. |
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Meanwhile, American intelligence has not yet detected signs of coordination between the Sunni rebellion in Iraq's heartland and the Shiite insurgency. |
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A Shiite mullah or imam of such huge importance can't be underestimated. |
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The Safavid state in Iran was founded in 1501 by Shiite tribes who believed that Shah Ismail was divine, and perhaps that he was the herald of the Shiite Mahdi or messiah. |
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Al Qaeda groups and Shiite Iran have entered into accommodations, too, at various times. |
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Shiite Muslims on Saturday gathered in the city of Zaria to hold processions along with fellow countrymen, press tv reported. |
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He said Shiite youth, who flagellated themselves with blades attached to chains, should instead donate their blood on the Day of Ashura. |
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It's very different from Iran's Shiite branch of Twelver, and part of the conflict is among Shiites themselves. |
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For the Sunni Gulf Arab states, the priorities remain regime change in Syria, keeping Shiite Iran down and fighting perceived Iranian proxies. |
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The surge was a nonsustainable military incursion of Shiite Baghdad, which had the effect of curbing street-level violence. |
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But perhaps the most intractable challenge of all is bridging the sectarian rift between the country's Shiite and Sunni citizens. |
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In Awadh, Sunni Muslims did not want to see a return to Shiite rule, so they often refused to join what they perceived to be a Shia rebellion. |
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In other words, is it reasonable to have the foreign policy of the country be decided by a Friday sermonizer in a Shiite mosque? |
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Nor from Saudi Arabia's own Shiite minority, nor the country's armed Wahhabists. |
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The Maliki government is Shiite, exclusionary and anti-Sunni. |
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Shiite Muslims across the world practised ritual self-flagellation as they observed Ashura on 14 November. |
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Hossein is highly regarded by Shiite Muslims because he refused to pledge allegiance to Yazid I, the Umayyad caliph because he considered the rules of the Umayyads unjust. |
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For Iran, Syria is a counterweight to any Sunni resurgence in Iraq, as well as the conduit to Hizbullah, its client Shiite pseudo-state in Lebanon. |
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Zayat said lawyers had not been allowed to meet the detained, but their families told lawyers they were being questioned about links to the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah. |
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While there have been attacks on Iran-bound Shiite passengers in Baluchistan, Kalat, the area where the incident occurred, is a hotbed of Baluchi nationalism. |
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However, several Saudi Shiite figures confirmed to Al Arabiya that the attack did not target Shiites in particular, but to promote sectarian tensions in the country. |
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