Saintly Family Trajectory in Central Asia

Uktambek A.  Sultonov

doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/S5DNB

Uktambek A. Sultonov Senior researcher, Al-Biruni Institute of Oriental Studies, Associate Professor, International Islamic Academy of Uzbekistan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/S5DNB

Keywords: saintly family, sayyīd-sharīf, khwāja, trajectory, social strata, Hijaz, Maghreb and Central Asia

Abstract

The article is devoted to highlighting the concept of saintly families in Central Asia, their social stratum and traditions of legitimation. The concept of saintly families of Central Asia consists not only of sayyīd-sharīfs, as in the Hijaz or the Maghreb. Its trajectory is quite wide, which covers the descendants of ‘Abd al-Muṭṭalib b. Ḥāshīm (sayyīd-sharīfs: ḥasanī, ḥusanī, ‘alawī, ‘abbāsī, ṭālibī), descendants (khwāja, mīr, shāh, tūra) of the first three caliphs (Abu Bakr Siddīq, Umar ibn Khattāb, ‘Usmān ibn ‘Affān) and saḥaba or arab commanders who came to Central Asia (for example, Uways al-Karanī, Qutayba b. Muslim).

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