The Alids are those who claim descent from the '' rāshidūn'' caliph and

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ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (656–661)—cousin, son-in-law, and companion of the

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Muhammad—through all his wives. The main branches are the (including the Ḥasanids, Ḥusaynids, and Zaynabids) and the

Alawids The Alawi dynasty ( ar, سلالة العلويين الفيلاليين, translit=sulālat al-ʿalawiyyīn al-fīlāliyyīn) – also rendered in English as Alaouite, Alawid, or Alawite – is the current Moroccan royal family and reigning d ...

History

Primarily Sunnī Muslims in the Arab world reserve the term ''sharīf'' or ''sherīf'' for descendants of Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī, while the term '' sayyid'' is used for descendants of Ḥasan's brother Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī. Both Ḥasan and Ḥusayn were grandchildren of Muhammad, through the marriage of his cousin ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib and his daughter Fāṭimah. Ever since the post- Hashemite era began, the term ''sayyid'' has been used to denote descendants from both Ḥasan and Ḥusayn. Arab Shīʿa Muslims use the terms ''sayyid'' and ''habib'' to denote descendants from both Ḥasan and Ḥusayn; see .

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There are several dynasties of Alid origin in the Muslim world. All of them exist under two main branches, the Ashrāfites and

: * ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib **'' Ashrāfites''/'' Sayyids'', descendants of Muhammad through the marriage of his cousin ʿAlī and his daughter Fāṭimah *** Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī and Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī, grandsons of Muhammad ****Zayd ibn Ḥasan ***** Ḥasan ibn Zayd of the Zaydid dynasty of Tabaristan (

Alavids Alid dynasties of northern Iran or Alavids (). In the 9th–14th centuries, the northern Iranian regions of Tabaristan, Daylam and Gilan, sandwiched between the Caspian Sea and the Alborz range, came under the rule of a number of Arab Alid ...

) **** Ḥasan al-Muthanna ibn Ḥasan *****Abdullah al-Kamil ibn Ḥasan al-Muthanna ******Musa al-Jawn ibn Abdullah al-Kamil *******Abdullah II ******** Abdul Qadir Jilani, the founder of Qadri-

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order ********* Nazim Al-Haqqani, the founder of the Naqshbandi Haqqani Sufi Order (Osmanlı Dergah) *******Ibrahim ibn Musa al-Jawn ********Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Ukhaidhir ibn Ibrahim of the Ukhaydhirite dynasty of

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********** Kings of Hejaz ********** Kings of Syria ********Sulayman ibn Abdullah al-Salih of the Sulaymanid Sharifs of Mecca and Jizan ******Ja'far ibn Abdullah al-Kamil of the Sharifs of

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, Tunisia ****** Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya ibn Abdullah al-Kamil of the

Alaouite dynasty The Alawi dynasty ( ar, سلالة العلويين الفيلاليين, translit=sulālat al-ʿalawiyyīn al-fīlāliyyīn) – also rendered in English as Alaouite, Alawid, or Alawite – is the current Morocco, Moroccan royal family and re ...

of Morocco ******* Saadid dynasty of Morocco ****** Idris al-Akbar ibn Abdullah al-Kamil of the Idrisid dynasty of Morocco ******* Hammudid dynasty of Algeciras,

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, Seville and Emirate of Granada ******* Senussids of Libya ****** Sulayman ibn Abdullah al-Kamil of the Sulaymanid dynasty of Tlemcen, Archgoul, Ténès (West-Algeria) *****Da'wud ibn Hasan al-Muthanna ******Sulayman ibn Da'wud of the Sulaymanid dynasty *****Ibrahim al-Ghamr ibn Hasan al-Muthanna ******Isma'il ibn Ibrahim al-Ghamr *******Ibrahim Tabataba ibn Isma'il ******** Al-Qasim al-Rassi ibn Ibrahim Tabataba of the Rassid dynasty of Yemen ***

Husayn ibn Ali Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, أبو عبد الله الحسين بن علي بن أبي طالب; 10 January 626 – 10 October 680) was a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a son of Ali ibn Abi ...

**** Imams in Isma'ilism ****

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(claimed) ****** Imams in Nizarism **** Bukhari Sayyids of

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Baha' al-Din Naqshband Baha' al-Din Naqshband ( fa, بهاءالدین محمد نقشبند; 1318–1389) was the eponymous founder of what would become one of the largest Sufi Sunni orders, the Naqshbandi. Background Baha al-Din was born in March 1318 in the v ...

, the founder of the

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order. ****** Hazrat Ishaan, supreme leader of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order ******* Sayyid Mir Jan and Dakik family ****The Tolje'lo and Guled dynasties of the Isaaq Sultanate as well as the Ainanshe dynasty of the Habr Yunis Sultanate through Sheikh Ishaaq bin Ahmed (founder and forefather of the Isaaq clan-family) ****The Safavid dynasty claims descent from Husayn ibn Ali, sharing the first five original rulers with the Fatimids. Many scholars have cast doubt on this claim, and there seems to be consensus among scholars that the Safavid family hailed from Persian Kurdistan.RM Savory, ''Safavids'', '' Encyclopedia of Islam'', 2nd ed. **** Al Qasimi (Qawasim) dynasty of Sharjah and Ras al-Khaimah, claims descent from the 10th Imam, Ali al-Hadi. **Alawids (By other wives of Caliph Ali), the descendants of Caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib through his wives after Fatima ***

Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib () also known as Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanafīyya () (15 AH – 81 AH; AD 637 – 700) and surnamed Abū al-Qāsim. He was the third son of Ali ibn Abi Talib (the fourth rightly-guided caliph and the first ...

****Awn Qutb Shah Ghazi ***** Awans of Ghaznavid era (

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Abbas ibn Ali Al-Abbas ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib ( ar, ٱلْعَبَّاس ٱبْن عَلِيّ ٱبْن أَبِي طَالِب, al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAlīy ibn ʾAbī Ṭālib), also known as Abu al-Fadl ( ar, أَبُو ٱلْفَضْل, link=no) (15 May 647 - ...

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Qutb Shah Quṭb Shāh, formally known as Sayyid ʿAbdullāh ʿAwn ibn Yaʿlā al-ʿAlawī al-Qādirī ( fa, عبداللہ عَوْن ابنِ یعلیٰ) (c. 1028–1099), was a ruler, medieval Persian Sufi Muslim preacher, and a religious scholar.Moh ...

***** Awans ******Avanoğlu families of Turkey ** Saltukids

Genealogical trees

This is a table of the interrelationships between the different parts of the Alid dynasties: Below is a simplified family tree of Hasan and

. For the ancestors of ibn Ali see the family tree of Muhammad and the family tree of Ali. People in ''italics'' are considered by the majority of

Sunni Sunni Islam () is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims. Its name comes from the word '' Sunnah'', referring to the tradition of Muhammad. The differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims arose from a disagr ...

and Shia Muslims to be ''

Ahl al-Bayt Ahl al-Bayt ( ar, أَهْل ٱلْبَيْت, ) refers to the family of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, but the term has also been extended in Sunni Islam to apply to all descendants of the Banu Hashim (Muhammad's clan) and even to all Muslims. ...

'' (''People of the House''). The

Twelver Shia Twelver Shīʿīsm ( ar, ٱثْنَا عَشَرِيَّة; '), also known as Imāmīyyah ( ar, إِمَامِيَّة), is the largest branch of Shīʿa Islam, comprising about 85 percent of all Shīʿa Muslims. The term ''Twelver'' refers t ...

also see the 4th to 12th Imamah as Ahl al-Bayt.

Family tree of Hasan ibn Ali

The Hashemites of Sharifate of Mecca, Kings of Jordan,

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

and Iraq are descended from Hasan ibn Ali: Hashemite Tree 2

The Hashemites, 1827-present
/ref> The Alaouites,

Kings of Morocco This is the list of rulers of Morocco, since the establishment of the state in 789. The common and formal titles of these rulers has varied, depending on the time period. Since 1957, the designation King has been used. The present King of Moroc ...

, are also descended from Hasan ibn Ali through Al-Hassan Ad-Dakhil: Alouids

Genealogoical chart of the descent from Muhammad of the Idrisid dynasty, rulers of Fez and Morocco, Kings of Tunis, and the

Senussi The Senusiyya, Senussi or Sanusi ( ar, السنوسية ''as-Sanūssiyya'') are a Muslim political-religious tariqa (Sufi order) and clan in colonial Libya and the Sudan region founded in Mecca in 1837 by the Grand Senussi ( ar, السنوسي ...

dynasty, founders and heads of the Libyan Senussi Order and Kings of Libya are also descended from Hasan ibn Ali through Idris al-Azhar. Idrisid Tree

Family tree of Husayn ibn Ali

The kin which ruled over Medina were descended from the other brother

References

External links

*Descendants of

Ali ibn Abi Talib ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam. ...

(Dynastie des Alides, in French

*Moroccan branch of the Alids (among which the members of the (royal) Alaouite dynasty of Morocco)

*Idrisid branch of the Alids (among which the members of the (royal) Idrissid dynasty of Morocco)

*Fatimid branc

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