Talk:Shia Islam in Saudi Arabia

=Missing Reference= The article refers several times to "Nasr(2006)" but fails to give the bibliographic information for this work.Bill (talk) 20:55, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

It seems likely that the work in question is "The Shia Revival" by Vali Nasr, but not having read it I am reluctant to insert this myself.Bill (talk) 21:01, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Seems pretty slanted, needs to hear from the other side — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.149.196.51 (talk) 23:21, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Inline Citation
The tag of inline citation since 2011, now appears to be unnecessary. URLs contents appear and disappear frequently. Book references provided (some PDF files, too) are sufficient. Neither there is any laid down criteria for an articles' inline limits, nor it is justifiable to give preference to web-material over books written or published by good writers/publishers. Thus a tag of 2011 has lost its importance in view of continuous editing to the page in question. Nannadeem (talk) 10:32, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Shia
According to Shia article, suitable word is Shia and not Shiite. Also, singular and plural form are the same. Saff V. (talk) 13:51, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Saudi Arabia not an alliance
I think that it is a gross exaggeration to say that "the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was formed in 1932 as an alliance between the House of Saud and followers of strict Sunni Islamic scholar Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab". The kingdom was founded by the House of Saud. They happened to be followers of al-Wahhab. That does not make the foundation of the kingdom an alliance.Royalcourtier (talk) 21:33, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree. The House of Saud has been Wahabbi since the 1700's. I'm going to change the phrasing of the sentence in question. Tigercompanion25 (talk) 23:51, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Off topic
The lede (and the article itself) explains very little about Shia in Saudi Arabia for example, to what branch of Shia do most Shia Saudis adhere? There is a section buried in the article on Ismailis that says that they are a minority of Shia in SA, but what are the majority? The lede says Shia are 10-15% and then goes on to talk about the founding of SA and explains what Wahhabism is without explaining anything about Shias in SA. If Shias in SA primarily define themselves in terms of their opposition to Sunnis in SA, then the article could state that, but the lede and the article should primarily focus on the beliefs, history, leaders, practice, etc, of Shia is in Saudi Arabia.  Sparkie82 ( t • c )  01:51, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

Isma‘ilis
The Sulaymanis are not "Seveners". To my knowledge is no extant group of Shi‘a called Seveners or who only accept the first seven Imams as the name suggests. The Sulaymanis, like the Dawoodi Bohra, are Tayyibi Musta'ili Isma‘ilis whose lineage follow directly from the Fatimids. If you wanted to give them a number (you shouldn't), they'd be called "Twenty-oners". Refer to Daftary's A Modern History of the Ismailis, and various works by Asif Ali Asghar Fyzee who was himself a notable Indian Sulaymani. Ltbh (talk) 16:17, 16 July 2023 (UTC)