All 7 Uses of
Shia
in
The Kite Runner
- Like Ali, she was a Shi'a Muslim and an ethnic Hazara.
p. 8..1Shi'a = second most populous denomination of Islam (15-20%)unconventional spelling: In the West, this is more commonly spelled Shia.
- The book said part of the reason Pashtuns had oppressed the Hazaras was that Pashtuns were Sunni Muslims, while Hazaras were Shi'a.
p. 9..7
- "That's the one thing Shi'a people do well," he said, picking up his papers, "passing themselves as martyrs."
p. 9..9
- He wrinkled his nose when he said the word Shi'a, like it was some kind of disease.
p. 10..1
- In the end, I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, I was Sunni and he was Shi'a, and nothing was ever going to change that.
p. 25..7 *
- For a lot of Hazaras, Iran represented a sanctuary of sorts—I guess because, like Hazaras, most Iranians were Shi'a Muslims.
p. 57..9
- You come all the way from America for… a Shi'a?
p. 267..5Shi'a = a person of the second most populous denomination of Islam (15-20%)unconventional spelling: In the West, this is more commonly spelled Shia.
Definition:
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(Shia) second most populous denomination of Islam (about 10%) and most associated with Iraneditor's notes: The Shia broke off from the Sunnis due to Shia insistence that Muhammad's caliph successors should all be descendants of Muhammad. Shia's identify with Persian rather than Arab empires.