Sentence examples for sayyid of from inspiring English sources

To his host, a leading Sunni notable and sayyid of Latakia, he said: 'I have come first of all to visit you and then to ask about the doctrine of the Alawis among whom you live.

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).

Then Wahiba kicked Sayyid out of the apartment and changed the locks.

Indian Afghans, being the principal opponents of the Mughals, were obviously to be kept at a distance, but the Sayyids of Baraha, the Bukhārī Sayyids, and the Kambūs among the Indian Muslims were specially favoured for high military and civil positions.

Among ʿAbd-uṣ-Ṣamad's greatest achievements was the supervision, together with his fellow Persian Mīr Sayyid ʿAlī, of a large part of the illustrations of the Dāstān-e ("Stories of") Amīr Ḥamzeh, a series that numbered about 1,400 paintings, all of unusually large size.

For Sayyid, none of this the people of the oasis, the wandering pig-raisers, the Exodus-style slaughter carried out by a dying regime is exotic or unusual.

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.

For Sayyid, none of this — the people of the oasis, the wandering pig-raisers, the Exodus-style slaughter carried out by a dying regime — is exotic or unusual.

The 20th-century ideologues most influential with modern jihadists, like Sayyid Qutb of Egypt and Abul Ala Maududi of Pakistan, reached their extreme, anti-Western views without much Saudi input.

However, he soon emerged as the Sayyid (leader) of the Ansar religious sect, supporters of the Mahdist movement.

Is a Johnny-come-lately employing airstrikes and drones going to weaken the impact of the writing of Sayyid Qutb the ideologist of pan-Islamism?