The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
a member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs
Synonyms: Shiite, Shi'ite, Shi'ite Muslim
Shiite Muslim
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 | Azeri (member of a traditionally Shiite Muslim people) |
| Qom (city of west-central Iran) |
| Azer (family name) |
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- Azeri (member of a traditionally Shiite Muslim people)
- Qom (city of west-central Iran)
- Azer (family name)
- Pilgrimage (2004 Film)
- National Geographic: In God's Name (2007 Spirituality & Philosophy Film)
- Mashhad (city, Iran)
- 1048 (chronology)
- Ismailis (in Islam)
- Azerbaijan (country, Asia)
- Lebanon (country, Asia)
- William J. Casey
- Nuri Badran
- Mahmoud Hammoud
- David S. Dodge
