The Ḥasanids ( or , ) are the descendants of
Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī, brother of
Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī and grandson of
Muhammad
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. They are a branch of the
Alids
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(the descendants of
ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib), and one of the two most important branches of the (the other being the descendants of Ḥasan's brother
Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī, the
Ḥusaynids).
In
Morocco
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, the term is particularly applied to the descendants of
Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, to distinguish them from the
Idrisid dynasty, which is also of Ḥasanid descent. The Moroccan Ḥasanids proper have produced two dynasties, the
Saadi dynasty
The Saadi Sultanate (), also known as the Sharifian Sultanate (), was a state which ruled present-day Morocco and parts of Northwest Africa in the 16th and 17th centuries. It was led by the Saadi dynasty, an Arab Sharifism, Sharifian dynasty.
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and the
Alawite dynasty, which still reign over the country.
Dynasties
Notable Ḥasanid dynasties in the
Muslim world
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include:
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Alawite dynasty of Morocco
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Alavid dynasty of Tabaristan
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Banu Ukhaidhir of Central Arabia
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Bolkiah dynasty of Brunei
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Hammudid dynasty of Southern Spain
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Idrisid dynasty of Morocco
* the various dynasties providing the
Sharifs of Mecca; including the
Hashemites (
Banu Qatadah) of the Hejaz, Syria, and Iraq, now ruling only in Jordan
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Rassid dynasty of Yemen
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Saadi dynasty
The Saadi Sultanate (), also known as the Sharifian Sultanate (), was a state which ruled present-day Morocco and parts of Northwest Africa in the 16th and 17th centuries. It was led by the Saadi dynasty, an Arab Sharifism, Sharifian dynasty.
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of Morocco
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Senussid dynasty of Algeria and Libya
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Sulaymanids of Mecca, Jizan, and Yemen
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Sulaymanid dynasty of Western Algeria
References
Sources
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