Sayyids and Sharifs in Muslim Societies

Introduction Part 1: Arguing Sayyids and Sharifs 1. How to Behave Toward Sayyids And Sharifs: A Trans-Sectarian Tradition of Dream Accounts 2. Qur'anic Commentary on the Verse of Khums (al-Anfal VIII:41) 3. Debate on the Status of Sayyid/sharifs in the Modern Era: The 'Alawi-Irshadi Dispute and Islamic Reformists in the Middle East Part 2: Sayyids and Sharifs in the Middle East 4. Genealogy, Marriage, and the Drawing of Boundaries among the 'Alids (Eighth-Twelfth Centuries) 5. A Historical Atlas on the 'Alids: a Proposal and a Few Samples 6. The Reflection of Islamic Tradition on Ottoman Social Structure: The Sayyids and Sharifs 7. The Ashraf and the Naqib Al-Ashraf in Ottoman Egypt and Syria: A Comparative Analysis Part 3: Sayyids and Sharifs beyond the Middle East 8. Shurafa in the Last Years of al-Andalus and in the Morisco Period: Laylat Al-Mawlid and Genealogies of the Prophet Muhammad 9. The Role of the Masharifu on the Swahili Coast in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 10. Dihqans and Sacred Families in Central Asia 11. Sacred Descent and Sufi Legitimation in a Genealogical Text from Eighteenth-Century Central Asia: The Sharaf Ata'i Tradition in Khwarazm 12. Trends of Ashrafization in India 13. The Sayyids as Commodities: The Islamic Periodical Alkisah and the Sayyid Community in Indonesia