Shiite

(noun.) a member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs.

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• In 1169 a Kurdish adventurer, named Saladin, became ruler of Egypt, in which country the Shiite heresy had now fallen before a Sunnite revival. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• East of the Caliph, in Persia, and west of him in Palestine, Syria, and Egypt, were Shiite heretics. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In Oudh there was a Shiite kingdom, with its capital at Lucknow, and Bengal was also a separate (Moslem) kingdom. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• On the other side of the shrunken Abbasid domain there was also a Shiite kingdom in Persia. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They are the two chief Shiite martyrs. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• These Abbasids took up the tradition of the Shiite martyrs, Ali and his sons Hasan and Husein, and identified themselves with it. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• To this day one main division of the Moslems, the Shiites, maintain the hereditary right of Ali to be Caliph _as an article of faith_! 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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