Sentence examples for shiite learning from inspiring English sources

Even now, Najaf, the seat of Shiite learning, remains a traumatized city.

While he has broad appeal among ordinary Shiites, the ayatollah must also re-establish himself as an influential religious scholar in the more secretive world of Najaf, the seat of Shiite learning in central Iraq.

"What we have tried to do is put in place a plan to allow Najaf to recover its political and strategic position in Iraq and the region, the Asharq al-Awsat, Iran and the Middle East," said Abdul Hussain Abtan, the deputy chairman of the Najaf Provincial Council, referring to the city's role historically as a center of pilgrimage and Shiite learning.

Khamenei began on Tuesday an unprecedented, nine-day trip to Qom, the holy city that is the center for Shiite learning.

In the days of the shah, he was a religious student of Ayatollah Khomeini at the center of Shiite learning, in the city of Qum.

For centuries an oppressed minority within Islam, Shiites learned to conceal their sectarian identity to survive, and so there is a precedent for lying to protect the Shiite community.

His patron, Ayatollah Kazem al-Haeri, still lives in the Iranian city of Qum, arguably the foremost seat of Shiite theocratic learning.

Children in a Shiite religious learning centre re-enact scenes they witnessed during battle between American soldiers and the Mahdi army.These and many other scenes of Iraqis were captured on camera by Kael Alford and Thorne Anderson during the American-led invasion of Iraq.

Born in 1960, the son of a grocer from the Bekaa, Sheik Nasrallah attended theological schools in two of the famous centers of Shiite Muslim learning -- Karbala, in Iraq, and Qum, in Iran -- before returning to Lebanon in 1982.

He said that he had left Iraq after learning that a Shiite group had put his name on a death list.

Qassim Daoud, a Shiite lawmaker, said he learned Monday from his coalition's observers that he had failed to win a seat in Najaf.