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Shaikhism

Shaikhism is the alternative form of Shaykhism.

Meaning of Shaykhism

Proper noun

Shaykhism

  1. A Shi'a Islamic school founded by Shaykh Ahmad in early 19th-century Qajar Iran, diverging from the Usuli school in its interpretation of key ideas such as the nature of the end times and the day of resurrection, the source of jurisprudential authority, and the proper hermeneutic to be employed in interpreting prophecy through the mystical writings of the Twelver Imams.

Questions about Shaikhism

What is Shaikhism the alternative form of?
Shaikhism is the alternative form of Shaykhism.

Words near Shaikhism in the dictionary

  1. shaikhas
  2. shaikhdom
  3. shaikhdoms
  4. Shaikhi
  5. Shaikhis
  6. Shaikhism
  7. shaikhs
  8. Shaikiyeh
  9. shaiks
  10. shail
  11. shaila

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Shaikhism (page history and authors); Shaykhism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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