Hasanids
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The Ḥasanids (Arabic: بنو الحسن, romanized: Banū al-Ḥasan or حسنيون, Ḥasanīyyūn) are the descendants of Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī, brother of Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī and grandson of Muhammad. They are a branch of the Alids (the descendants of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib), and one of the two most important branches of the ashrāf (the other being the descendants of Ḥasan's brother Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī, the Ḥusaynids).
In Morocco, 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, and the Alawite dynasty, which still reigns over the country.
Dynasties
Notable Ḥasanid dynasties in the Muslim world include:
Alawite dynasty of Morocco
Alavid dynasty of Tabaristan
Banu Ukhaidhir of Central Arabia
Bolkiah dynasty of Brunei
Hammudid dynasty of Southern Spain
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
Rassid dynasty of Yemen
Saadi dynasty of Morocco
Senussid dynasty of Algeria and Libya
Sulaymanids of Mecca, Jizan, and Yemen
Sulaymanid dynasty of Western Algeria
References
Sources
Brett, Michael (2001). The Rise of the Fatimids: The World of the Mediterranean and the Middle East in the Fourth Century of the Hijra, Tenth Century CE. The Medieval Mediterranean. Vol. 30. Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers. ISBN 978-90-04-47337-9.
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