Muhammad ibn Ali al-Idrisi
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Sayyid Muhammad ibn Ali al-Idrisi (1876–1920) ( ar, محمد بن علي الإدريسي) founded and ruled the Idrisid Emirate of sabya.


Biography

He was born at
Sabya Sabya ( ar, صبياء) is a city and sub-division in Jazan Province, in southwestern Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and h ...
(now
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). He was a grandson of Sayyid Ahmad ibn Idris al-Fasi, a Moroccan scholar from Fez, who was head of a religious fraternity (''tariqa'') at
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and who acquired land at Sabya, settled there and died in 1837. The descendants of Sayyid Ahmed appear to have increased in wealth and influence and to have gradually supplanted the ruling
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ial family of Abu ‛Arish. Sayyid Muhammad was educated partly at Al-Azhar University and partly by the Senussi at
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, and subsequently resided for a time in the Sudan, at Argo Island. On his return to Asir, his one ambition was to render that district independent of the
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. He gradually expanded his political power to include
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el
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and a large part of the
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, with control over several tribes outside these limits. He threw in his lot with the Allies in
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, and was the inexorable foe of the
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.


See also

*
Idrisid dynasty The Idrisid dynasty or Idrisids ( ar, الأدارسة ') were an Arab Muslim dynasty from 788 to 974, ruling most of present-day Morocco and parts of present-day western Algeria. Named after the founder, Idris I, the Idrisids were an Alid an ...
* Ahmad ibn Idris al-Fasi


Notes


Further reading

* Headley, R.L. "ʿAsīr." ''Encyclopaedia of Islam'', Second Edition. * Anne K. Bang, ''The Idrisi State of Asir 1906-1934: Politics, Religion and Personal Prestige as State-building factors in early twentieth century Arabia'' (London: Bergen Studies on the Middle East and Africa, 1996) Emirs 1876 births 1920 deaths Hasanids 19th-century rulers in Asia 20th-century rulers in Asia {{s-end 19th-century Arabs 20th-century Arabs 19th-century Saudi Arabian people 20th-century Saudi Arabian people Moroccan people of Arab descent