Example sentences for: shia

How can you use “shia” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the 1980s, awash in sudden oil wealth, Saudi Arabia competed with Shia Iran to promote its Sunni fundamentalist interpretation of Islam, Wahhabism.

  • CIA analytic report, "Khobar Bombing: Saudi Shia, Iran, and Usama Bin Ladin All Suspects," CTC 96- 30015, July 5, 1996; DIA analytic report, Defense IntelligenceThreat Review 96-007, July 1996; Intelligence report made available to the Commission.

  • (The Shia are dominant in Iran.)

  • Iran's 1979 revolution swept a Shia theocracy into power.

  • The relationship between al Qaeda and Iran demonstrated that Sunni-Shia divisions did not necessarily pose an insurmountable barrier to cooperation in terrorist operations.


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