Sayyid

Sayyid (also Saiyid, Saiyed or Sayed; Arabic سيد; Persian: Seyed or Seyyed, female: Sayyida; Turkish:. Seyyid; Kurdish: Saiyid, female: Seyyide; Malay. Syed; Bosnian: Sejdić ( Sunni ) ) is the honorary title of the descendants of Muhammad, the founder of Islam, which descended from him about his grandson Husain. Sayyid in Arabic means "Lord." The descendants of his elder grandson Hasan bear the title of Sherif. The descent is made clear by green or black turbans and by two special strands of hair.

A descendant of Husain is called Sayyida, the most famous was his daughter Sayyida Sakina and their daughter Nafisa at- Tahira. She was among other things a teachers' ash- Shaafi'ee, the founder of schafiitischen right school ( madhhab ) in Sunni Islam. Descendants of Sayyida in the female line are also called Mirza ( Mirza ), of which there are about 1 million in Iran, not to be confused with the constellation Mirza or Mirzam.

Dissemination

Sayyids are almost exclusively Shia and therefore especially in Iraq and in Iran ( 600,000 ) numerous. Main settlement area in Iran since the 7th century the region of Qom (Qom ).

As for Arabic terms often inaccurate, or at least inconsistent Latin transliteration is used, the title Sayyid can easily be confused with the name Said ( سعيد / Sa ʿ īd ) or Zaid ( زيد / Zaid ), which differ significantly from each other in Arabic.