In the last days of the Omayyads, the Shi'ites had chosen as caliph, Mahommed b.
But the Shi'ites were dissatisfied and even dared to give public utterance to their hostility.
Meanwhile Yazid, having been informed of the riotous behaviour of the Shi'ites in Kufa, sent Obaidallah, son of the famous Ziyad and governor of Basra, to restore order.
But he was detained a whole year in the former country, by a rising of the Shi'ites in Kufa, who were still in mourning for Hosain and had formed an army which called itself "the army of the penitent.
The unfortunate fanatics were hunted down and massacred to the last man, and thereby the ties that bound the Abbasids to the ultra-Shi'ites were severed.
But in the following year, 450, during his absence, the Shi'ites made themselves masters of the metropolis, and proclaimed the Caliphate of the Fatimite prince Mostansir.
Seven of them who refused to pledge themselves to obedience were put to death; the Shi'ites considered them as martyrs and accused Moawiya of committing a great crime.
He claimed that he was commissioned by Ali's son, Mahommed ibn al-Hanafiya, who after the death of Hosain was recognized by the Shi'ites as their Mahdi.
Among the Is'ra-el-ites certain institutions of worship were observed at regular intervals of time which have been called the =Periodical Institutions=.
They had been =weakened= before the coming of the Is'ra-el-ites either by war or by pestilence.
At the end of the stay in Ca'naan the Is'ra-el-ites counted only seventy souls (Gen.
This was the birthday of a nation, the hour when the Is'ra-el-ites rose from being merely a mass of men to become a people.
A year later they were the easy prey of the Ca'naan-ites at Hor'mah (Num.
But the E'dom-ites refused to permit such an army to pass through their land (Num.
As a result of failing to extirpate the Ca'naan-ites a vastly greater number of the Is'ra-el-ites were destroyed during the succeeding centuries.
During this period the government of the Is'ra-el-ites was peculiar.
Tyre, showing that the Is'ra-el-ites were not advanced in the arts.
What made the Is'ra-el-ites willing to leave E'gypt?
I rapidly made friends with most of the company, although some of the most obdurate Shi-ites could not refrain, at times, from casting in my teeth the manifold wrong-doings of the Sunnites.
But the Shi-ites begin the doleful feast one month sooner; everybody arrays himself in mourning, fasts, and employs his time in the recital of elegies and in visiting the Tazies.
The company I met there treated me as Shi-ites generally treat their Sunnite guest--they could not refrain from occasionally launching out in satirical and biting remarks.
I had been often told that the Shi-ites were the Protestants of Islam, and their superior intelligence and industry led me to at one time share this supposition.
Later on the Arabs came, and they envied the Shi-ites for these wonderful buildings, and in their envy they mutilated the statues and figures, threw down the columns and left everywhere the traces of their destructive spirit.
The claim of Isma'il had been passed over by his father and many Shi'ites because he had been guilty of drinking wine.
In the third it was taught that there were only seven imams and that the other sects of the Shi'ites were in error.
A man of white blood and white gifts is not to be expected to boast of his expl'ites and to flourish scalps.
The Lane-ites were cowed and gradually subsided into silence.
He fell upon the Lane-ites like Samson upon the Philistines.
A term used by some writers to denote the Shi'ites as a whole; by others given to a class of the Shi'ites who forsook Zaid ibn 'Ali because he forbade them to abuse the Companions.
Shi'ites of the Imamite class, who ascribe the imamate to 'Abdallah ul-Aftahi, the son of Sadiq.
They regarded 'Ali and his descendants as the only legitimate caliphs, and came to be known as Shi'ites (q.
Shi'ites who supported Abu Hashim, son of Mahommed ibn ul-Hanafiyya, although they held that his father had gone astray.
Shi'ites who followed Abu Ja'far ul-Baqir, the fifth imam, and looked for his return.
Shi'ites of the extreme kind, who attributed to God a body with quantities (measurements) and qualities.
In fact, we St Bruno-ites boast and know we shall never want money for any good purpose either for ourselves or our friends.
Because we know he will stop the Persians and their Shi'ites who are now spreading their poison of hate in India, and he'll also rid India of the Portuguese.
That's why the Persian Shi'ites despise him and want him dead.
He defies the Shi'ites because he will not bow to their dogma.
The only man in India who is not afraid of he Persian Shi'ites at court.
Like most of their countrymen, the Buwayhids were ShA-aEuro~ites in religion.
Against ShA-aEuro~ites and KhAirijites the Umayyads might claim with some show of reason to represent the cause of law and order, if not of Islam; against the bitter cry of the oppressed MawAilA- they had no argument save the sword.
Wellhausen thinks that the dogmatics of the ShA-aEuro~ites are derived from Jewish rather than from Persian sources.
Sidenote: The ShA-aEuro~ites join hands with the aEuro~AbbAisids.
The SAimAinids and Buwayhids, ShA-aEuro~ites as they were, paid the same homage to the Caliph in BaghdAid as did the Sunnite Ghaznevids.
The SabaaEuro(TM)ites also held that the ImAim might suffer a temporary occultation (ghayba), but that one day he would return and fill the earth with justice.
Such is the distinctive doctrine of the ShA-aEuro~ites to the present day.
We'll make it a general rule That we Briarcroft-ites Shall stand up for its rights, And be true to the dear old School!
Another distinction between the Sunnites and the Shi'ites is that the Sunnites regard the Imam as liable to err, and to be obeyed even though he personally sins, provided he maintains the ordinances of Islam.
But the Shi'ites believe that the divinely appointed Imam is also divinely illumined and preserved (ma'sum) from sin.
In Persia among Shi'ites their position is more purely spiritual, and they are independent of the state.
The Shi'ites in general hold that the appointment lies with God, through the Prophet or otherwise, and that He always has appointed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ites" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
