Abbas Amanat
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particular ethnic group in southern Iran, which is Sunni rather than Shi'i, majority.
Majority of the population of the Muslim world are Sunnis.
Hmm.
These are mainstream, if you like to call it.
Actually, sunnah means that kind of a mainstream.
Can you actually linger on the Sunni sunnah shia?
Shia means party.
Party.
means those that belongs to a party of Ali, which was, goes back to the early Islamic history of seventh century.
Shi'i means belonging to the Shi'i community.
Shi'a means a person of a Shi'a.
That belongs to that community.
If you say, are you a Shi'a?
Yes, I'm a Shia.
Yeah, and Shia is the community.
Community.
And in English, when it was anglicized, it becomes Shiite.
So if you say Shiite in today, it's perfectly acceptable.
And of course, I myself, in my writings, I always...
a switch between one and the other.