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”).
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”).
Meanings
(usually, with article) Shi'a Islam.
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
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:
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:
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:
(collective, with article) The followers of this branch of Islam; the Shiites.
Throughout the Umayyad period, the Shi'a were confined to southern 'Iraq [...] 2013, Robert Brenton Betts, The Sunni-Shi'a Divide, page 17:
nl sjia (branch of Islam) · ka შიიზმი (branch of Islam) · fr chiisme (branch of Islam) · syc ܫܝܥܗ (branch of Islam) · ru шии́зм (branch of Islam) · az şiə (branch of Islam) · ro șiism (branch of Islam) · it sciismo (branch of Islam) · pl szyizm (branch of Islam) · tr Şiilik (branch of Islam) · ca xiisme (branch of Islam) · az şiəlik (branch of Islam) · ar شِيعَة عَلِيّ (branch of Islam) · ja シーア派 (branch of Islam) · fi shiialaisuus (branch of Islam) · da shia (branch of Islam) · bn শিয়া (branch of Islam) · hi शिया (branch of Islam) · fa-ira شیعه (branch of Islam) · hy շիա (branch of Islam) · az şiə təriqəti (branch of Islam) · es chiismo (branch of Islam) · fi šiialaisuus (branch of Islam) · de Schia (branch of Islam) · ug شىئە (branch of Islam) · eo ŝijaismo (branch of Islam) · vo jiit (branch of Islam) · kk шиитшілдік (branch of Islam) · cmn 什葉派 /什叶派 (branch of Islam) · prs شِیعَه (branch of Islam) · ar الشِّيعَة (branch of Islam) · pt xiismo (branch of Islam) · fa-cls شِیعَةْ (branch of Islam) · tr Şia (branch of Islam) · syc ܫܝܥܐ (branch of Islam) · az şiə məzhəbi (branch of Islam) · fa-cls شِیعَه (branch of Islam)