Sayyids and Sharifs in Muslim Societies

MORIMOTO Kazuo is an Associate Professor in the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia at the University of Tokyo. He is the Executive Editor of the International Journal of Asian Studies, and his main research interest lies in the role and position of sayyid/sharifs in Muslim societies.

• Introduction Part 1: Arguing Sayyids and Sharīfs 1. How to Behave Toward Sayyids And Sharīfs: A Trans-Sectarian Tradition of Dream Accounts 2. Qur’ānic Commentary on the Verse of Khums (al-Anfāl VIII:41) 3. Debate on the Status of Sayyid/sharīfs in the Modern Era: The ‘Alawī-Irshādī Dispute and Islamic Reformists in the Middle East Part 2: Sayyids and Sharīfs 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 Sharīfs 7. The Ashrāf and the Naqīb Al-Ashrāf in Ottoman Egypt and Syria: A Comparative Analysis 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 9. The Role of the Masharifu on the Swahili Coast in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 10. Dihqāns and Sacred Families in Central Asia 11. Sacred Descent and Sufi Legitimation in a Genealogical Text from Eighteenth-Century Central Asia: The Sharaf Atā’ī Tradition in Khwārazm 12. Trends of Ashrāfization in India 13. The Sayyids as Commodities: The Islamic Periodical Alkisah and the Sayyid Community in Indonesia

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