Chapter SHANBAFF to SHEEAH of S by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

points from the Turkes, are distinguished in their Sectes by tearmes of Seaw and Sunnee.”—Purchas, Pilgrimage, 995.

1653.—“Les Persans et Keselbaches (Kuzzilbash) se disent Schaì … si les Ottomans estoient Schaìs, ou de la Secte de Haly, les Persans se feroient Sonnis qui est la Secte des Ottomans.”—De la Boullaye-le-Gouz, edition 1657, 106.

1673.—“His Substitute here is a Chias Moor.”—Fryer, 29.

1798.—“In contradistinction to the Soonis, who in their prayers cross their hands on the lower part of the breast, the Schiahs drop their arms in straight lines.”—G. Forster, Travels, ii. 129.

1805.—“The word Sh’eeah, or Sheeut, properly signifies a troop or sect … but has become the distinctive appellation of the followers of Aly, or all those who maintain that he was the first legitimate Khuleefah, or successor to Moohummad.”—Baillie, Digest of Mah. Law, II. xii.

1869.—“La tolerance indienne est venue diminuer dans l’Inde le fanatisme Musulman. Là Sunnites et Schiites n’ont point entre eux cette animosité qui divise les Tures et les Persans … ces deux sectes divisent les musulmans de l’Inde; mais comme je viens de dire, elles n’excitent généralement entre eux aucune animosité.”—Garcin de Tassy, Rel. Mus., page 12.