“We are witnessing a new cult in Shiism whose leaders claim to be connected to the imam,” says one regime insider.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iranian ‘cult’ of imam sparks controversy] Reference

The reason is that radical Shiism is on the march.    From Wordnik.com.  [MJ Rosenberg: Woodward on Bush and the Saudis] Reference

The situation is not just, though, Iran and Shiism.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2006] Reference

Qom is the bastion of Shiism and Islamic scholarship in Iran.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 21, 2009] Reference

They relocated to Iran and set up the institutions of Shiism there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jamsheed K. Choksy: Shiism, Nationalism, and the Past Clash in Modern Iran] Reference

You say that "Alawites were never considered part of Twelver Shiism.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunday, April 30, 2006] Reference

One, they are Arabs, two, Shiism originated in Iraq, stolen by the Persians over time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maliki Government, America, Iran and the Arabs] Reference

In which he traces the history of Shiism and what is really happening in the Middle East today.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 24, 2007] Reference

You know full well that the Iranians would force the Jews of Israel to convert to Shiism or die.    From Wordnik.com.  [What’s the Farsi Word for ‘Sputnik’? - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

Shiism and Sunnism are like the major division in Christianity between Protestants and Catholics.    From Wordnik.com.  [An attack against Iran? Sunni governments would be secretly happy] Reference

Most Iranian women do not wear the chador the all-embodying hejab commonly associated with Shiism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shirin Sadeghi: Women and Style in Iran] Reference

The Houthis follow a minor offshoot of Shiism that isn't the same as the version practiced in Iran.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. Says Iran Helps Crackdown in Syria] Reference

Most Iranian women do not wear the chador (the all-embodying hejab commonly associated with Shiism).    From Wordnik.com.  [Shirin Sadeghi: Women and Style in Iran] Reference

Shiism is something that is a rising force and to acknowledge this would be foreshadowing for the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 16, 2006] Reference

I point out that many people associate political Shiism with Iran and a concept known as Welayat al-Faqih.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dialogue With Lebanon's Ayatollah] Reference

The Mu'tazilite approach is still popular in Zaidism and in Twelver Shiism of the Iraqi and Iranian sort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juan Cole on Pope Benedict's Erroneous Speech About Islam] Reference

It was also a revolution within Shiism, which for 14 centuries had prohibited a clerical role in politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Wright: The Supreme Leader's Gamble: Iran's Crisis Deepens] Reference

But leaders of both groups insist they are "moderates" who reject the hard-line Shiism espoused by the Iranian theocracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A FREE-FOR-ALL] Reference

The arrests reportedly took place last December, during a crackdown against groups trying to convert Egyptians to Shiism.    From Wordnik.com.  [As the U.S. Retreats, Iran Fills the Void] Reference

The hidden imam, the 12th imam, according to Ahmadinejad and the people who support his sect of Shiism, can be accelerated.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2007] Reference

Shiism is the controlling religious sect only in Iran, although it has many followers in Lebanon, Bahrain and, of course, Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunnis and Shiites: Islam’s feuding arms] Reference

Shiism itself, with its reverence of human saints and its roots in Aristotelian reason, has powerful affinities with Western humanism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coming to Terms With Iraqi Democracy] Reference

In 1959, the then Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Mahmud Shaltut, issued a religious edict or fatwa recognising Shiism as "religiously correct.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Shiism, like most religions, is no stranger to heated schisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference

The end of the Imamate, they felt, would mean the end of Shiism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy] Reference

Shiism, according to this view, is really a thinly disguised form of Iranian nationalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference

Tabatabii (1892-1981) was one of the most prominent thinkers of philosophy and contemporary Shiism.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

His eclectic brand of Shiism promised to usher in revolution in this world and salvation in the next.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference

Below is a brief chronological account of how Shiism and the belief in the Mahdi as its pivotal figure were formed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy] Reference

This school of thought ultimately became the dominant view in Shiism with a new Wakeel following the death of a previous one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy] Reference

Administration officials believe they have taken precautions that will encourage Iraqi nationalism over a destructive pan-Shiism.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE AIR FORCE PUNDIT] Reference