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Definition of Akhbari
1. Noun. A religious movement by Arab Shiite Muslims in 17th century Iraq that is opposed to the Usuli. "Akhbari Shiism has never promoted political control"
Geographical relationships: Al-iraq, Irak, Iraq, Republic Of Iraq
Lexicographical Neighbors of Akhbari
Literary usage of Akhbari
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopædia of the Laws of England with Forms and Precedents by the Most by Alexander Wood Renton, Maxwell Anderson Robertson, Frederick Pollock, William Bowstead (1908)
"The Shiah sect divides into three branches; the Asna-Asharya branch includes the
akhbari and Usuli schools. The Sharaya-id-Idam, a book of akhbari doctrine ..."
2. The Law Relating to Gifts, Trusts, and Testamentary Dispositions Among the by Syed Ameer Ali (1885)
"... in preference to, or supersession of, the akhbari doctrines," road " the
general adoption of ..."
3. Recollections of My Life by Sir Joseph Fayrer (1900)
"On arriving at the akhbari gate we were met by the native chiefs who had been
presented in the morning ; and mounting elephants, the Duke being in the ..."
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