Sentence examples for sevener from inspiring English sources
noun
A member of a branch of Ismaili Shi'a Muslims who believe that was the seventh and last imam (hereditary leader of the Muslim community).
Most mountain dwellers are Shīʿite Muslims of the Ismāʿīlite (Sevener) or Ithnā ʿAsharīyah (Twelver) sects.
I think my best effort was a sevener.
Austin Sevener, 26, a survey programmer in Fort Worth, said he hadn't realized that he had bought his wedding ring on the same day as a lunar eclipse.
Seveners, in Islām, minority subsect within the Ismāʿīlīte sect of Shīʿites.
His eldest son, Ismāʿīl, predeceased him, but the "Seveners," represented today chiefly by the Ismāʿīlites (followers of Ismāʿīl)—argued that Ismāʿīl merely disappeared and would reappear one day.
The Seveners later claimed that Ismāʿīl's son Muḥammad al-Tamm was expected to return at the end of the world as the mahdī ("divinely guided one").
It is reported, however, that one incident persuaded him to cease attacks against the Ismāʿīlī a Shīʿite sect of Islām also known as Seveners because they believe that Ismāʿīl, the seventh imam (spiritual leader), was the last of the imams.
One group of Ismāʿīlīs, called Seveners (Sabʿiyyah), considered Ismāʿīl the seventh and last of the imams.
Some of the Ismāʿīliyyah believed Ismāʿīl to have been the seventh and last imam and were designated as Seveners (Sabʿiyyah) or Stoppers (Wāqifiyyah), while the majority of the Ismāʿīliyyah believed that the imamate continued in the line of the Fāṭimid caliphs.
Among the Shīʿites there are several subsects; notable are the Ismāʿīlīs (or Seveners)—including the Nizārīs (followers of the Aga Khans, among whom are the Khojas and the Bohrās), who are prominent in commerce and industry—and the Ithnā ʿAshariyyah (or Twelvers), who are more austere in their practices and more closely resemble the Shīʿite tradition found in Iran.
