Shiadom

English

Etymology

Shia +‎ -dom

Noun

Shiadom (uncountable)

  1. The Shiite world.
    • 1933, Indian State Railways Magazine, volume 6, number 10:
      It seems an unwisely conferred blessing really for the Kazvini is known throughout Persia as the biggest rogue in Shiadom.
    • 2005, Muneeza Shamsie, And the World Changed, page 207:
      In the middle of Shalmi, the working-class inner sanctum of Lahori Shiadom, I find myself swept along a tide of sweat, blood and tears at four in the morning.
    • 2007, Stephen C. Pelletiere, Losing Iraq: Insurgency and Politics, page 60:
      As long as the holiest sites in Shiadom —Najaf and Karbala — were located in Iraq, the ayatollahs regarded that part of the country as their appanage, viewing as an abomination secular Ba'thists' attempts to dictate affairs in the South.
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