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Definition of Shiism
1. Noun. The branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs.
Specialized synonyms: Ismailism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shiism
Literary usage of Shiism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"Here, however, shiism has not been able to achieve its political ideals. ...
The mysticism and extravagant theolo^r of shiism and the volatile Persian ..."
2. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"shiism has not been able to achieve its political ideals^ The ... The mysticism
and extravagant theology of shiism and the volatile Persian character have ..."
3. In the Desert by Lisle March Phillipps (1905)
"Again, if shiism is primarily political, how is it to be accounted for that all
... The activity of shiism is evidently to-day a religious and philosophical ..."
4. History of Bokhara from the Earliest Period Down to the Present: Composed by Ármin Vámbéry (1873)
"shiism was as old as Islamism itself, and if the adherents of this sect were
really so abhorred, how came Imam Riza to settle down in the midst of them ..."
5. History of Bokhara from the Earliest Period Down to the Present: Composed by Ármin Vámbéry (1873)
"shiism was as old as Islamism itself, and if the adherents of this sect were
really so abhorred, how came Imam Riza to settle down in the midst of them ..."
6. The Modern Uzbeks: From the Fourteenth Century to the Present : a Cultural by Edward Allworth (1990)
"... had shifted from green to red head coverings when they changed from orthodox
Islam to shiism.34 The liberation of ..."
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