Shiite

It is one of the four great shrines of the Shi‛ite Moslems in the vilayet of Bagdad.

The Khan was a person of refinement and culture; he was very tolerant, and to him Sunnite or Shi-ite was the same thing.

I squatted down, unheeded in the midst of the crowd of hungry Shi-ite and Sunnite pilgrims.