Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 51 Shi'ite clerics 49 Shi'a 49 Shia clerics 48 Sciri 48 Shi'i 47 Muqtada Sadr 47 Shiia 47 Shi'ite 46 Shi'as 46 theocratic regime 46 Shiite 46 Shiite Muslim 46 theocratic 45 Sunni 45 secular nationalist 45 staunchly secular 45 Shia 45 Shiite theocracy 45 ayatollahs 45 Hawza 45 Shi'ism 45 Ayatollah Sistani 45 Shias 45 Sadrists 45 Shi'ites 45 hardliners 44 Islamic theocracy 44 theocrats 44 SCIRI 44 religio political 43 Shi'ite Muslim 43 Shiite clerics 43 secular 43 mullahs 43 Abdul Aziz al Hakim 43 Shiites 43 Badr Brigade militia 43 fundamentalist 43 Shia cleric 42 grand ayatollah 42 theocracy 42 Islamic Ummah 42 Ba'ath Party 42 combating extremism 42 Badr Organization 42 pluralistic democracy 42 Shi'ite cleric 42 clerical establishment 42 ayatollah 42 clerical rulers 42 clerical hierarchy 41 Baath regime 41 rejectionist 41 Sunni Muslim 41 firebrand Shiite cleric 41 clerics 41 ISCI 41 deposed dictator Saddam Hussein 41 religious 41 Ayatollahs 41 Ba'athist regime 41 Shi'ite Islamist 41 Ayatollah Ali al Sistani 41 predominantly Shi'ite 41 Ayatollah Khamenei 40 neoconservatives 40 US backed 40 Shiite Muslims 40 democratic 40 Sunnis 40 US allied 40 Ba'ath 40 Saddam Baath 40 hard liners 40 sectarians 40 Neoconservatives 40 Maliki Dawa party 40 tribal sheikhs 40 sole superpower 40 Qods Force 40 Mahdi army 40 Alusi 39 semiautonomous Kurdish 39 democracy 39 al Sadr 39 Moktada al Sadr 39 neoconservative 39 Allawi 39 Badr Brigades 39 Islamic fundamentalists 39 umma 39 Joost Hiltermann 39 secular republic 39 Moqtada 39 Arab regimes 39 Baathist 39 Muqtada al Sadr 39 radical Shia cleric 39 al Maliki 39 democratic polity 39 Ba'athist