Organization for Islamic Area Studies早稲田大学 イスラーム地域研究機構

Edited by MORIMOTO Kazuo
Published 8th May 2012

Contents

Introduction by MORIMOTO Kazuo

Part I: Arguing sayyids and Sharifs

1. How to behave toward sayyids and sharīfs: a trans-sectarian tradition of dream accounts
   by MORIMOTO Kazuo
2. Qur’anic commentary on the verse of khums (al-Anfal VIII:41)
   by Roy Parviz Mottahedeh
3. Debate on the status of sayyid/sharifs in the modern era: the ‛Alawi-Irshadi dispute and Islamic reformists in the Middle East
   by YAMAGUCHI Motoki

Part II: Sayyids and sharifs in the Middle East

4. Genealogy, marriage, and the drawing of boundaries among the ‛Alids (eighth-twelfth centuries)
   by Teresa Bernheimer
5. A historical atlas on the ‛Alids: a proposal and a few samples
   by Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti
6. The reflection of Islamic tradition on Ottoman social structure: the sayyids and Sharifs
   by Ruya Kilic

Part III: Sayyids and sharifs beyond the Middle East

7. Shurafa in the last years of al-Andalus and in the Morisco period: laylat al-mawlid and genealogies of the Prophet Muhammad
   by Mercedes Garcia-Arenal
8. The role of the masharifu on the Swahili coast in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
   by Valerie J. Hoffman
9. Dihqans and sacred families in Central Asia
   by Ashirbek Muminov
10. Sacred descent and Sufi legitimation in a genealogical text from eighteenth-century Central Asia: the Sharaf Ata’ī tradition in Khwarazm
    by Devin Deweese
11. Trends of ashrāfization in India
    by Arthur F. Buehler
12. The sayyids as commodities: the Islamic periodical alkisah and the sayyid community in Indonesia
    by ARAI Kazuhiro