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Title for a Moslem
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sayyid
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Sayyid (, , also transliterated as Sayed , or Syed , ) is a masculine given name derived from the title Sayyid , it is not to be confused with the similar looking name Sayid (often spelled Saeed , ). These people are not necessarily considered to be Sayyid ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also sayid , Islamic title of honor, applied to descendants of Hussein, Muhammad's grandson, 1788, from Arabic sayyid "lord, chief," perhaps literally "speaker, spokesman."
Usage examples of sayyid.
More ominously, the activist Shia Islam preached by the leader of the revolution in Iran, Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, threatened to upset the delicate Sunni-Shia balance in Iraq, and a hostile Iran would threaten Iraqi security in the Gulf.
In the summer of 1980, Saddam Husayn ordered the executions of presumed Ad Dawah leader Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Baqr as Sadr and his sister.
Sayyid felt a cold sweat trickling between his shoulders, as though an enraged Tusker were breathing down his back.
It is Ashura, the tenth day of Muhurram, according to a real-time clock still tuned to the pace of a different era: the one thousand, three hundred and fortieth anniversary of the martyrdom of the third Imam, the Sayyid ash-Shuhada.
It is Ashura, the tenth day of Muhurram, according to a real-time clock still tuned to the pace of a different era: the one thousand, three hundred and fortieth anniversary of the martyrdom of the Third Imam, the Sayyid ash-Shuhada.
Mau-dudi and Sayyid Qutb, they declared jihad against the forces of heresy and degeneracy, and he was with them.
The almost general veneration of the sayyids and sherifs, as the descendants of Mohammed are entitled, is due to this influence.
Ibn Taimiyyah, through the founders of Wahhabism, through the Muslim Brotherhood, to Sayyid Qutb.
In his stateroom four decks down, Maja bin Sayyid was on the phone to General al Hez, who had returned to Ahman with the body.