what is the difference between shiite and shia?

Question

I know the difference between sunni and shiite; however, I have sometimes heard the word shia used - is that interchangeable with shiite.

Answer 1

the spelling

Answer 2

Shiite is the adjective of the Islamic sect Shia which is the adopted translation in the English language. For example, you say, he is Shiite, which means he believes in the Islamic sect known as shia. The same thing may be said about the Sunni. The adjective of Sunna is Sunni. You say that some one believes in the Sunna sect, therefore he is Sunni. So Shia and Sunna are both nouns, while Sunni and Shiite are adjectives.

Answer 3

Shia is the system and Shiite is the person. Of course, both come from the same root word

Answer 4

A person following the Shia faith is a shiite in English.

Answer 5

Shia the religion Shiite the person who believes in the religion.

Answer 6

Different branches of Islam. There was an argument as to who shold succeed Mohammad - one group joined one claimant, the other the other claimant and so was, yet again, was born emnity within a religion. Shia is a shiite, and be careful how you spell shiite.

Does religion teach more how to completely hate each other than love? It seems so.

Answer 7

I think Shia is the belief system, and Shiite is the one who follows it. Like Christianity / Christian.

Answer 8

The west is showing that Shiite/Shia (Same thing) are fighting with Sunni people and have tried to fight both of them.. but it didnt work.. lol... they are stupid.. Muslims can never fight.... it will be easier to start a fight between catholics and protestants but impossible to start a fight within Shiite and Sunnis... coz both are muslims... both follow same prophet.. both have exactly same BOOK..!!

Answer 9

Shiites

(shē´ītz) [Arab., shiat Ali,=the party of Ali], the second largest branch of Islam, Shiites currently account for 10%—15% of all Muslims. Shiite Islam originated as a political movement supporting Ali (cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam) as the rightful leader of the Islamic state. The legitimacy of this claim, as initially envisioned by Ali's supporters, was based on Muhammad's alleged designation of Ali as his successor, Ali's righteousness, and tribal customs, given his close relation to the Prophet. Ali's right passed with his death in 661 to his son Hasan, who chose not to claim it, and after Hasan's death, to Husayn, Ali's younger son. The evolution into a religious formulation is believed to have been initiated with the martyrdom of Husayn in 680 at Karbala (today in Iraq), a traumatic event still observed with fervor in today's Shiite world on the 10th of the month of Muharram of the Muslim lunar year.

Answer 10

those are the same shiite is a common mistake in pronouncing the arabic word "شیعه"

Answer 11

Shiite is the creation of planing by Jew,s

and they are follower,s of non profit person nephew of Mohamed (pbuh) more then Mohamed (pbuh) there source of Hadith was fabricated by Jew,s because the place
where they lived it was the place faar away from mecca So Hadith delivered to them was fabricated and planing was to make them distribute about there faith for Prophet