• Shiist

    Full definition of Shiist

    Noun

    Shiist

    (plural Shiists)
    1. A practitioner of fundamentalist Shiism.
      • 1974, Afro-Asian Writings, issues 19-27, page 135:... which took them over, by either a Sunnist or Shiist hue, and whichever was the case, they existed in Azerbaijan before they came to Anatolia.
      • 1999, To Fode: Questions sur la Bible, in soc.culture.algeria
    , Usenet:
      • The radical sunnists wrote ahadiths about Ali to defame him and degrade the Shiaist, the Shiist did the same thing..Ahadiths were maily written to justify some malices and some sins, and to please some rulers.
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