Definition of Akhbari

1. Noun. A religious movement by Arab Shiite Muslims in 17th century Iraq that is opposed to the Usuli. "Akhbari Shiism has never promoted political control"

Generic synonyms: Religious Movement
Geographical relationships: Al-iraq, Irak, Iraq, Republic Of Iraq

Lexicographical Neighbors of Akhbari

Akademeia
Akan
Akar-Bale
Akawaio
Ake
Akeanon
Akela
Akelas
Aken
Akeridae
Akerlund deformity
Akeu
Akha
Akhaury
Akhbari (current term)
Akhenaten
Akhenaton
Akhmimic
Akhoury
Akhvakh
Akihabara
Akimel O'odham
Akira Kurosawa
Akita
Akka
Akkad
Akkadian
Akkadians
Akkala Sami

Literary usage of Akhbari

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopædia of the Laws of England with Forms and Precedents by the Most by Alexander Wood Renton, Maxwell Anderson Robertson, Frederick Pollock, William Bowstead (1908)
"The Shiah sect divides into three branches; the Asna-Asharya branch includes the Akhbari and Usuli schools. The Sharaya-id-Idam, a book of Akhbari doctrine ..."

2. The Law Relating to Gifts, Trusts, and Testamentary Dispositions Among the by Syed Ameer Ali (1885)
"... in preference to, or supersession of, the Akhbari doctrines," road " the general adoption of ..."

3. Recollections of My Life by Sir Joseph Fayrer (1900)
"On arriving at the Akhbari gate we were met by the native chiefs who had been presented in the morning ; and mounting elephants, the Duke being in the ..."

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