Stone desi sia, shia, Grebo.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
If one glorify the other three Khalifas in a Sunni quarter, it is well with one, but not so in an area devoted to the shia population: and so the beggar chooses Ali's name as a convenient and fitting means of opening the purse-strings of both the great Musulman sects.
"By-Ways of Bombay"
S. M. Edwardes, C.V.O.
This to a shia Mahomedan whose right hand is bandaged.
"Leaves from a Field Note-Book"
J. H. Morgan