Sayyids and sharifs in Muslim societies : the living links to the Prophet
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Sayyids and sharifs in Muslim societies : the living links to the Prophet
（New horizons in islamic studies (second series)）
Routledge, 2017, c2012
- : pbk
Available at 2 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The global Muslim population includes a large number of lineal descendants and relatives of the Prophet Muhammad. These kinsfolk, most often known as "sayyid" or "sharif," form a distinct social category in many Muslim societies, and their status can afford them special treatment in legal matters and in the political sphere.
This book brings together an international group of renowned scholars to provide a comprehensive examination of the place of the kinsfolk of Muhammad in Muslim societies, throughout history and in a number of different local manifestations. The chapters cover:
how the status and privileges of sayyids and sharifs have been discussed by religious scholars
how the prophetic descent of sayyids and sharifs has functioned as a symbolic capital in different settings
the lives of actual sayyids and sharifs in different times and places
Providing a thorough analysis of sayyids and sharifs from the ninth century to the present day, and from the Iberian Peninsula to the Indonesian Archipelago, this book will be of great interest to scholars of Islamic studies, Middle East and Asian studies.
Table of Contents
Introduction Part 1: Arguing Sayyids and Sharifs 1. How to Behave Toward Sayyids And Sharifs: A Trans-Sectarian Tradition of Dream Accounts 2. Qur'anic Commentary on the Verse of Khums (al-Anfal VIII:41) 3. Debate on the Status of Sayyid/sharifs in the Modern Era: The 'Alawi-Irshadi Dispute and Islamic Reformists in the Middle East Part 2: Sayyids and Sharifs in the Middle East 4. Genealogy, Marriage, and the Drawing of Boundaries among the 'Alids (Eighth-Twelfth Centuries) 5. A Historical Atlas on the 'Alids: a Proposal and a Few Samples 6. The Reflection of Islamic Tradition on Ottoman Social Structure: The Sayyids and Sharifs 7. The Ashraf and the Naqib Al-Ashraf in Ottoman Egypt and Syria: A Comparative Analysis Part 3: Sayyids and Sharifs beyond the Middle East 8. Shurafa in the Last Years of al-Andalus and in the Morisco Period: Laylat Al-Mawlid and Genealogies of the Prophet Muhammad 9. The Role of the Masharifu on the Swahili Coast in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 10. Dihqans and Sacred Families in Central Asia 11. Sacred Descent and Sufi Legitimation in a Genealogical Text from Eighteenth-Century Central Asia: The Sharaf Ata'i Tradition in Khwarazm 12. Trends of Ashrafization in India 13. The Sayyids as Commodities: The Islamic Periodical Alkisah and the Sayyid Community in Indonesia
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