occultation

en-noun

occultation (countable and uncountable, plural occultations)

From Latin occultātiōnem, accusative singular of occultātiō (“concealment; insinuation”), from occultāre, present active infinitive of occultō (“to conceal, hide”); analysable as occult + -ation.

We are therefore, constantly hoping for the joy and happiness, personified in Imām al-Mahdi, the Imām who is alive at this very time, and who is himself awaiting the command of Allāh to reappear, so that he may strengthen the weak, and judge the oppressors. He will reappear "without having done Bay'ah to any oppressor". He went into occultation because he did not want [to] submit to any unjust ruler.

2002, Allamah Sayyid Saeed Akhtar Rizvi, Prophecies about Occultation of Imãm Al-Mahdi (A.S.), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Bilal Muslim Mission of Tanzania, →ISBN, page 7:

(Shia Islam) The disappearance of the Twelfth Imam, or Mahdi, who is believed alive and present in this world, but hidden until his reappearance at the end of time.

الغَيْبَة

Mahdi's disappearance in twelver Shiite's doctrine


Shi'a

From Arabic شِيعَة (šīʕa, “sect, faction, party; [collectively] followers, partisans”), as the word has been used in شِيعَة عَلِيّ (šīʕat ʕalī, “the faction of Ali; [collectively] the followers of Ali”) or الشِّيعَة (aš-šīʕa, “the Faction; the Followers”).

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sect, faction, party; 􂀿collectively􂁀 followers, partisans

In Islam, Sunni is a more triumphant version of the faith than Shia, which stresses the importance of suffering, following the founder Ali, who was persecuted.

1998, Geert H. Hofstede, Masculinity and Femininity: The Taboo Dimension of National Cultures, page 205:

Shi’a is one of the two larger divisions of Islam, […]

2008, J. Gordon Melton, The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena, Visible Ink Press, page 181:

Jordanians do not know what Shi’a is about, and it was very recently, [the] last few years, when we start[ed] being exposed to Shi’a.

a. 2013, Bruce Anthony Collet, Refugee Education as a Gauge of Liberal Multiculturalism: Iraqi Students in Jordan and the United States in 2013, Heidi Biseth, Halla B. Holmarsdottir, Human Rights in the Field of Comparative Education, Sense Publishers, page 158

But the Shī'a was not yet a sect; there can as yet be no division of Islam between Shi'ite and Sunni.

2016, Abdul Ganiy Oloruntele, The Sunni and the Shi’A: History, Doctrines and Discrepancies:

(usually with article) The branch of Islam that believes that Ali succeeded Muhammad as leader, and that places emphasis on the prophet's family.


anti-Shia

en-adj

anti-Shia (comparative more anti-Shia, superlative most anti-Shia)

more anti-Shia (comparative)
most anti-Shia (superlative)


anti-Shiite

anti-Shiite (comparative more anti-Shiite, superlative most anti-Shiite)

more anti-Shiite (comparative)
most anti-Shiite (superlative)


Shiaphobia

Shiaphobia is nothing new for Saudi Arabia. The kingdom's legitimacy derives from the Wahhabi sect of Islam, a Sunni Muslim group that attacked Shiite shrines in Iraq in the nineteenth century, and today systematically discriminates against Shias.

2012, Satish, “New book on Shias by Hamid Dabashi”, in soc.culture.iranian (Usenet):

The discourse of a Shi'ite Crescent and the consequent “Shiaphobia” seem problematic for a number of reasons.

2013, Glen Perry, The International Relations of the Contemporary Middle East, page 161:

An irrational fear, hatred, or dislike of Shi'ites.


Shi'itic

Shi'itic (comparative more Shi'itic, superlative most Shi'itic)

more Shi'itic (comparative)
most Shi'itic (superlative)


anti-Shiism

One region where al-Qa'ida's anti-Shiism might resonate and draw supporters and recruits is Arabia.

2011, Assaf Moghadam, Fault Lines in Global Jihad, page 199:

Discrimination against or hostility towards Shiites.


Shiitize

en-verb

Shiitize (third-person singular simple present Shiitizes, present participle Shiitizing, simple past and past participle Shiitized)

Shiitizes (present singular third-person)
Shiitizing (participle present)
Shiitized (participle past)
Shiitized (past)

2007, NY trans, Weekend Carnage in Iraq; Sadrists Return to Parliament Group: uk.media
Qatar-based Sunni preacher Yusuf al-Qaradawi called on Iran to cease trying to "Shiitize" the region and accused it of playing an unhelpful

2006, Pacifist, Re: king abdollah on Iran, Iraq Group: Iranian Democratic Forum
Some also address the endeavors to "Shiitize" some Sunnites in the region.

a former Saudi opponent and one of the most popular Islamic writers of the last decade, spoke of Iran's “gigantic efforts” to Shiitize Syria

2013, Sami Zemni, The Dynamics of Sunni-Shia Relationships:

(transitive, intransitive) To make or become Shiite


Shiastan

A hypothetical Shi'a state in southern Iraq.


pan-Shiism

An ideology that promotes unity and solidarity between the various Shia madhabs


Shi'ify

Shi'ify (third-person singular simple present Shi'ifies, present participle Shi'ifying, simple past and past participle Shi'ified)

Shi'ifies (present singular third-person)
Shi'ifying (participle present)
Shi'ified (participle past)
Shi'ified (past)

(transitive) To make Shiite, or to increase the Shia character of.


Shi'ize

Shi'ize (third-person singular simple present Shi'izes, present participle Shi'izing, simple past and past participle Shi'ized)

Shi'izes (present singular third-person)
Shi'izing (participle present)
Shi'ized (participle past)
Shi'ized (past)

(transitive, very rare) To make Shi'ite.


Shiaphobe

2014 Haidernaqi, Party to genocide : It is no longer possible to call shia killings the result of a sectarian war Group: SoulsMarch
Renowned Shiaphobes were presented shields by ASWJ chief Ahmed Ludhianvi and witnesses reveal that slogans of “Shia kafir!” resounded throughout the ceremony. This in a city which has become the hub of Shia genocide, where a couple of bomb blasts targeting the Shia Hazara community killed nearly 200 people ...


Shiist

... 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.

1974, Afro-Asian Writings, numbers 19-27, page 135:

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.

1999, To Fode: Questions sur la Bible, in soc.culture.algeria, Usenet:

... established of a Theocratic Shiist Iraq highlights the problem of trying to establish a democracy through transplantion.

2007, Gary Gibson, Waveform Politics; A War to End Democide, volume 3, page 100:

A practitioner of fundamentalist Shiism.


Shi'i

en-adj

Shi'i (comparative more Shi'i, superlative most Shi'i)

more Shi'i (comparative)
most Shi'i (superlative)

Transliteration of Arabic شِيعِيّ (šīʕiyy). By surface analysis, Shi'a + -i.

transliteration

Coordinate term: Sunni


rafidi

en-noun

rafidi (plural rafidis or rafida or rawafid)

rafidis (plural)
rafida (plural)
rawafid (plural)

From Arabic رَافِضِيّ (rāfiḍiyy, literally “rejector”), formed from the active participle of the verb رَفَضَ (rafaḍa, “to refuse, deny”).


Shiadom

It seems an unwisely conferred blessing really for the Kazvini is known throughout Persia as the biggest rogue in Shiadom.

1933, Indian State Railways Magazine, volume 6, number 10:

In the middle of Shalmi, the working-class inner sanctum of Lahori Shiadom, I find myself swept along a tide of sweat, blood and tears at four in the morning.

2005, Muneeza Shamsie, And the World Changed, page 207:

As long as the holiest sites in Shiadom —Najaf and Karbala — were located in Iraq, the ayatollahs regarded that part of the country as their appanage, viewing as an abomination secular Ba'thists' attempts to dictate affairs in the South.

2007, Stephen C. Pelletiere, Losing Iraq: Insurgency and Politics, page 60:


Shiaphilia

(very rare) Love or admiration for Shiism or of Shiite civilization.


Twelverism

The largest branch of Shi'ism, believing that the Twelve Imams were divinely ordained leaders, and that the Mahdi will be the returned Twelfth Imam who disappeared and is believed by Twelvers to be in occultation.


imambara

From Urdu اِمام باڑا (imām bāṛā) or اِمام باڑَہ (imām bāṛa).

Urdu اِمام باڑا (imām bāṛā)

In South Asia, a congregation hall for Shiites to mourn the death of Husayn ibn Ali in the month of Muharram; a husayniyya.


takyeh

Borrowed from Iranian Persian تکیه (takye). Doublet of takya, takiyya, and tekke.

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Here I was informed that the Kedkhudá (chief man of the village), apprised by the muleteer of my arrival, had assigned quarters to me in the takyé consecrated to the Muḥarram passion-plays.

1893, Edward G. Browne, A Year amongst the Persians, page 250:

Another communication centre for the Muslims and members of the community is the takyeh, of which there are hundreds in Tehran and other provinces.

1995, National Development and Security, page 116:

This Maidan and the Takyeh, once considered as the entrance portal of the old Bazar of Yazd, belong to the late part of the 9th century A.H. (15th cent. A.D.), and have been founded in 830 (1426 A.D.), when Masjid-i Mir Chakhmaq was also under construction.

1974, Nosratollah Meshkati, A List of the Historical Sites and Ancient Monuments of Iran, page 72:

(Shia Islam, Iran) Synonym of husayniyya; alternative form of takya


takya

The takya was often endowed with several stores, the profits from which would help to defray the cost of maintaining the takya.

2004, Robert Gleave, Religion and Society in Qajar Iran, page 388:

(Shia Islam, Iran) Synonym of husayniyya


Siqatul Islam

Derived from Classical Persian ثِقَتُ الْاِسْلَام or ثِقَةُ الْاِسْلَام (siqatu l-islām), from Arabic ثِقَة (ṯiqa) + الإِسْلَام (al-ʔislām).

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ثِقَتُ الْاِسْلَام

Classical Persian ثِقَتُ الْاِسْلَام

der+

ثِقَتُ الْاِسْلَام

(Shia Islam) a title below ayatollah, one who has explicitly been trusted to narrate fatwas.


husayniyya

Borrowed from Arabic حُسَيْنِيَّة f (ḥusayniyya).

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حُسَيْنِيَّة

A building where Shia Muslims gather to mourn the death of Husayn ibn Ali in the month of Muharram.