Sentence examples for sayyid from inspiring English sources

It was noticed that one of them, Hareth al-Nathari, appeared to be wearing the clothes of a sayyid, a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad.

The claim made by Ṣafavid court historians that Safī al-Dīn was a Shīʿite and a sayyid (descendant of ʿAlī) is false and misleading.

Maxamed did not appropriate the title of mahdi but assumed the title of sayyid (a descendant of the Prophet), and his followers were known as the dervishes.

The formidable dervish stronghold at Taleex, or Taleh, was bombed, but the sayyid escaped, as so often before, only to die of influenza a few months later while desperately seeking to rally his scattered followers.

Under the Sayyid dynasty (c. 1414 51) the sultanate was reduced to a country power continually contending on an equal footing with other petty Muslim and Hindu principalities.

In a letter dated 1018 AH/1609 10 from Shiraz, Mulla Sadra described Mir Damad as "the apportioner of grace to the hearts of the wise, the eleventh intellect, he who masters the theory and practice of the sciences, the lord (sayyid) of philosophers and the master of the jurists, the most noble of scholars, the civiliser of Islam" (Khamenehi 2000: 109).

Mahdist, also called Ansar, or al-Anṣār, (Arabic: "Helper"), follower of al-Mahdī (Muḥammad Aḥmad ibn al-Sayyid ʿAbd Allāh) or of his successor or descendants.

Elsewhere within the region, novel writing was initiated at a later date: in Iraq by Maḥmūd Aḥmad al-Sayyid with Fī sabīl al-zawāj (1921; "On the Marriage Path"); in Algeria by Aḥmad Riḍā Hūhū with Ghādat umm al-qurā (1947; "Maid of the City"); and in Morocco by ʿAbd al-Majīd ibn Jallūn with Fī al-ṭufūlah (1957; "In Childhood").

Among prominent Egyptian Muslims, Maudoodi especially inspired Sayyid Qutb, the Islamist thinker who was executed in 1966; and Qutb in turn influenced the future leaders of al-Qaeda as well as Brotherhood offshoots which were not quite so extreme.

Mrs Al-Daher is married to Oman's foreign minister Sayyid Badr bin Hamad bin Hamood Al-Busaidi.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, himself translated into Persian works by Sayyid Qutb, the Brotherhood's leading ideologue (who was also executed, in 1966).