Shi'ah

This HOT HEAD – McCain – doesn't understand or even care that there's a difference between Shi'ah and Sunni ...

Obama considers trip to Iraq 2008

Three years ago the bombing of the Al-Askari Mosque, a Shi'ah holy site in Samarra, triggered a wave of sectarian violence in Iraq that led to massive displacement.

Ken Bacon: Addressing the Challenge of Iraqi Displacement 2009

Three years ago the bombing of the Al-Askari Mosque, a Shi'ah holy site in Samarra, triggered a wave of sectarian violence in Iraq that led to massive displacement.

Ken Bacon: Addressing the Challenge of Iraqi Displacement 2009

Three years ago the bombing of the Al-Askari Mosque, a Shi'ah holy site in Samarra, triggered a wave of sectarian violence in Iraq that led to massive displacement.

Ken Bacon: Addressing the Challenge of Iraqi Displacement 2009

We never talked about Sunni/Shi'ah as much as everyone is talking about it today.

Zainab Salbi: Please Listen to the Women of Iraq 2008

The Shi'ah Moslems recognise as legal marriages contracted for a certain limited period—a day, a month, a year, or any other specified term.

Archive 2008-04-01 Jan 2008

[T] ribal Iraqis living in tribal circumstances (Sunni or Shi'ah) now comprise a fraction of the population, probably less than 15 percent.

How Neocons (and Neolibs) Dismissed the Prospect of Sunni-Shi'ite Conflict in Iraq 2007

Fatimah as his second wife, and then went to Lucknow, which, under the rule of the Nawabs, was the centre in Northern India of the Shi'ah sect, to which he belonged.

Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali 1885

'Though the Sunnis consider the Shi'ah observances as impious, they look on with the contempt of indifference.

Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali 1885

Islam was obtained from her husband and his father, both learned, travelled gentlemen, and by them she was treated with a degree of toleration unusual in a Shi'ah household, this sect being rigid and often fanatical followers of Islam.

Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali 1885