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ashraf
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Ashraf is a term used to describe someone descended from Muhammad. Ashraf may also refer to: Ashraf (name) Camp Ashraf Behshahr Ashraf, East Azerbaijan , Iran Ashraf, Yazd , Iran
Usage examples of ashraf.
Then there were the Ashraf, the Mahdi's brothers, uncles and cousins, and the emirs of the tribes: the Jaalin, the Hadendowa, the Beja and others.
The Ashraf whispered among themselves, and watched the Khalifa Abdullahi surreptitiously.
Even though the claim of the Ashraf to the Mahdiya was flawed, if one or two powerful emirs of the fighting tribes declared for them, Abdullahi would be sent to the execution grounds behind the mosque to meet his God and follow his Mahdi into the fields of Paradise.
Every man in the room shouted in homage to the new ruler, the Khalifat, of the Sudan, although the voices of the Ashraf were muted and lacked enthusiasm.
When they had listened earnestly to this proclamation he ordered the emirs and the Ashraf to write letters that were sent out with fast horsemen and camel-riders to the most remote corners of the empire to reassure and calm the population.
The Ashraf were the main threat to his sovereignty: Abdel Kerim was the cousin of the Mahdi and one of the leaders of the Ashraf.
If Abdel Kerim failed against the Egyptians, Abdullahi could accuse him of treachery and have him executed, or at least strip him of his rank and take the Ashraf army under his own command.
Abdullahi has driven many of the Ashraf out of Sudan, emirs of the Jaalin and the Hadendowa.
Thanks go, too, to those who were there in as many different ways as there are names: Sabah Ashraf, Andy and Karen Barnett, Noel Bejarano, Marjorie Braman, Scott Brown, Sonesh Chainani, Dhruv Chopra, Elena DeCoste, Joe Geraci, Victor and Phyllis Grann, Katy Heiden, Stan Horowitz, the Joel family, David Kanuth, Clint Kisker, Richard Kromka, John Lester, Tobias Nanda, Nathaniel Pastor, Mike Personick, Joe and Spencer Rascoff, Jeff Sahrbeck, Jessica Salins, Joanna Sletten, Nick Simonds, Jon Stein, Emily Stone, Larry Wasserman, and Adam Wolfsdorf.
On the fifteenth of May, 1291, as de Beq and his men had been celebrating their defeat of Ibn-al-Hassad, the Mamaluk army under Sultan al-Ashraf had breached Acre's walls.