sayyids

Updated: May 27, 2025

The almost general veneration of the sayyids and sherifs, as the descendants of Mohammed are entitled, is due to this influence. The Shi'ah outside Arabia, whose adherents used to be persecuted by the official authorities, not without good cause, became the receptacle of all the revolutionary and heterodox ideas maintained by the converted peoples.

C. Snouck Hurgronje - Mohammedanism: Lectures on Its Origin, Its Religious and Political Growth,: and Its Present State

Sometimes the room is filled with Arabs, Sayyids, merchants, and others settled in the place: I saw nothing amongst them to justify the oft-quoted saw, "Koraysh pride and Zayla's boastfulness."

Sir Richard Francis Burton - First Footsteps in East Africa

So great was the excitement caused by the appearance of the Bāb that Muḥammad Shah and his minister thought it desirable to send an expert to inquire into the new Teacher's claims. They selected Sayyid Yaḥya, 'one of the best known of doctors and Sayyids, as well as an object of veneration and confidence, even in the highest quarters. The tale is an interesting one.

Thomas Kelly Cheyne - The Reconciliation of Races and Religions

It was described as containing four halls, the western for the Sayyids, or descendants of the Prophet; the southern for learned men who had studied or acquired knowledge; the northern for those famed for inspired wisdom: the eastern hall was reserved for the nobles and state officers. Thousands of people from all quarters of the world assembled in the courtyard.

E. B. Havell - A Handbook to Agra and the Taj: Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri and the Neighbourhood