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Primarily, someone honouring 'Infallible Ali'? (4)

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shia

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'primarily someone honouring 'infallible ali'?' is the definition.
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'primarily someone honouring 'infallible ali'?' is the wordplay.
'primarily' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letters of 'someone honouring infallible ali' is 'SHIA'.

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(Other definitions for shia that I've seen before include "A_main branch of Islam" , "A main branch of Islam" , "One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam" , "A major denomination of Islam" .)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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