Introduction
The global Muslim population includes a large number of lineal descendants
and relatives of the Prophet Muhammad. These kinsfolk, most often known as
sayyids or “sharifs,” 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.
(from the volume’s presentation on Taylor & Francis website: http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415519175/, with minor modifications by Kazuo Morimoto)
Contents
| Introduction | MORIMOTO Kazuo | |
|---|---|---|
| Part 1: | Arguing Sayyids and Sharīfs | |
| 1. | How to Behave Toward Sayyids And Sharīfs: A Trans-Sectarian Tradition of Dream Accounts | MORIMOTO Kazuo |
| 2. | Qur’ānic Commentary on the Verse of Khums (al-Anfāl VIII:41) | Roy Parviz Mottahedeh |
| 3. | Debate on the Status of Sayyid/sharīfs in the Modern Era: The ‘Alawī-Irshādī Dispute and Islamic Reformists in the Middle East | YAMAGUCHI Motoki |
| Part 2: | Sayyids and Sharīfs in the Middle East | |
| 4. | Genealogy, Marriage, and the Drawing of Boundaries among the ‘Alids (Eighth–Twelfth Centuries) | Teresa Bernheimer |
| 5. | A Historical Atlas on the ‘Alids: a Proposal and a Few Samples Biancamaria | Scarcia Amoretti |
| 6. | The Reflection of Islamic Tradition on Ottoman Social Structure: The Sayyids and Sharīfs. | Rüya Kilic |
| 7. | The Ashrāf and the Naqīb Al-Ashrāf in Ottoman Egypt and Syria: A Comparative Analysis | Michael Winter |
| Part 3: | Sayyids and Sharīfs beyond the Middle East | |
| 8. | Shurafā in the Last Years of al-Andalus and in the Morisco Period: Laylat Al-Mawlid and Genealogies of the Prophet Muhammad | Mercedes García-Arenal |
| 9. | The Role of the Masharifu on the Swahili Coast in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | Valerie J. Hoffman |
| 10. | Dihqāns and Sacred Families in Central Asia | Ashirbek Muminov |
| 11. | Sacred Descent and Sufi Legitimation in a Genealogical Text from Eighteenth-Century Central Asia: The Sharaf Atā’ī Tradition in Khwārazm | Devin Deweese |
| 12. | Trends of Ashrāfization in India | Arthur F. Buehler |
| 13. | The Sayyids as Commodities: The Islamic Periodical Alkisah and the Sayyid Community in Indonesia | ARAI Kazuhiro |
| Index |
Info
Kazuo Morimoto
Sayyids and Sharifs in Muslim Societies: The Living Links to the Prophet
Routledge, 276 pages, 2012.5, ISBN: 978-041551917-5