After the First World War, the Hashemite Sayyid Hussein bin Ali was proclaimed King of an independent Hejaz, but soon after, in 1924, he was defeated by Ibn Saud, who integrated Medina and the whole of the Hejaz into the modern kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

January 18: Faisal-Weizmann Agreement between Emir Faisal ( son of the King of Hejaz, Sharif of Mecca Sayyid Hussein bin Ali ), and Chaim Weizmann ( later President of the World Zionist Organization ).

The movement developed as a reaction to British colonialism in India, which was believed by a group of prominent Indian scholars consisting of Rashid Ahmad Gangohi, Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi, Shah Rafi al-Din, Sayyid Muhammad Abid, Zulfiqar Ali, Fadhl al-Rahman Usmani and Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi to be corrupting the Islamic religion.

On April 10, 2003 Sayyid Abdul Majid al-Khoei the son of Sayyid Abul-Qassim Al-Khoei was stabbed to death outside the Imam Ali Mosque by an angry mob.

The Senussi or Sanussi refers to a Muslim political-religious order in Libya and the Sudan region founded in Mecca in 1837 by the Grand Senussi, Sayyid Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi.

Sayyid Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi ( 1787 – 1859 ), the founder of the order, was born in Algeria near Mostaganem and was named al-Senussi after a venerated Muslim teacher.

The Senussi, encouraged by the German Empire and Ottoman Empire, played a minor part in the First World War, fighting a guerrilla war against the Italians in Libya and the British in Egypt from November 1915 until February 1917, led by Sayyid Ahmed and in the Sudan from March to December 1916, led by Ali Dinar, the Sultan of Darfur.

* Sayyid Muhammad bin ' Ali as-Senussi ( 1843 – 1859 )

Germany paid Sultan Sayyid Ali bin Said al-Said of Oman M 4 million for both the island and part of the mainland coast.

Born at Al-Jaghbub, the headquarters of the Senussi movement, on 12 March 1889, the son of Sayyid Muhammad al-Mahdi bin Sayyid Muhammad al-Senussi and his fifth wife Aisha bint Ahmad al-Syrte, Idris was a grandson of Sayyid Muhammad bin ' Ali as-Senussi, the founder of the Senussi Muslim sufi order.

* High Order of Sayyid Muhammad ibn Ali al-Senussi

Category: Grand Sashes of the Order of Sayyid Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi

In later Mughal history it was occupied for a short while by Mughal emperor, Muhammad Shah ( r. 1719-1748 ), and his regent, Sayyid Hussain Ali Khan Barha, one of the Syed Brothers, was murdered here in 1720.

The most liberal Muslim intellectuals who focused on religious reform include Muhammad Ali ( writer ), Sayyid al-Qimni, Nasr Abu Zayd, Abdolkarim Soroush, Mohammed Arkoun, Mohammed Shahrour, Ahmed Subhy Mansour, Edip Yuksel, Gamal al-Banna, Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na ' im, Ahmed Al-Gubbanchi, Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, and Faraj Foda, the last two were killed after apostasy claims which most of them have been accused of by traditional Islamic scholars.

* Sayyid Ali bin Hamud Al-Busaid, 8th Sultan of Zanzibar

* Princess Sayyida Bashan bint Hamud Al-Busaid ( who married Prince Sayyid Said bin Ali, the son of the fourth Sultan of Zanzibar )

On the one hand Mulla Sadiq Muqaddas states that "... Mir Ali Muhammad Shirazi Bab ... is a student of Sayyid Kazim ..." and that he ( Muqaddas ) was introduced to Sayyid Kazim by the Bab.

1. Sahebzada Mir Ghaziuddin Khan Siddiqi Bahadur, Firuz Jung 2. Sahebzada Mir Ahmed Ali Khan Siddiqi Bahadur, Nasir Jung 3. Sahebzada Sayyid Mohammed Khan Siddiqi Bahadur, Salabath Jung 4. Sahebzada Mir Nizam Ali Khan Siddiqi Bahadur, Fateh Jung and 5. Sahebzada Mir Mohammed Sharif Khan Siddiqi Bahadur, Basalath Jung.

From 1915 to 1916, the British High Commissioner in Egypt, Sir Henry McMahon, corresponded by letters with Sayyid Hussein bin Ali, the father of Pan Arabism.

In the 11th Imam had two sons, Sayyid Muhammad ( ie Imam Mahdi ) and Sayyid Ali Akbar.

Sayyid Muhammad al-Mahdi bin Sayyid Muhammad as-Senussi ( 1845 – 30 May 1902 ) was fourteen when his father died, after which he was placed under the care of his father's friends.

* Sayyid Muhammad al-Mahdi bin Sayyid Muhammad as-Senussi ( 1859 – 1902 )

* Sayyid Muhammad bin Sayyid Hasan ar-Rida al-Mahdi as-Sanussi ( 1992 – present )

The phrase or similar phrases have been used by Muslims such as Ayatollah Khomeini, Sayyid Qutb, Osama bin Laden, the imam Anwar al-Awlaki and the organization Islamophobia Watch.

Idris, GBE (), also known as Idris I of Libya ( born Sayyid Muhammad Idris bin Muhammad al-Mahdi as-Senussi 12 March 1889 – 25 May 1983 ), was the first and only king of Libya, reigning from 1951 to 1969, and the Chief of the Senussi Muslim order.

# At Kufra, 1896 / 1897, his cousin, Sayyida Aisha binti Sayyid Muhammad as-Sharif al-Sanussi ( 1873 Jaghbub-1905 or 1907 Kufra ), eldest daughter of Sayyid Muhammad as-Sharif bin Sayyid Muhammad al-Sanussi, by his fourth wife, Fatima, daughter of ' Umar bin Muhammad al-Ashhab, of Fezzan, by whom he had one son who died in infancy ;

Sayyid Ahmad as-Sharif Pasha bin Sayyid Muhammad as-Sharif al-Sanussi, 3rd Grand Sanussi, by his second wife, Khadija, daughter of Ahmad al-Rifi, by whom he had one son who died in infancy ;

In the early nineteenth centuries, continuing bloody conflict involved not only the Al Khalifa, the Al Jalahima, and the Iranians but also the Omanis under Sayyid Said ibn Sultan Al Said, the nascent Wahhabis of Arabia, and the Ottomans.

Author ( 1844 – 1924 ) was born Princess Salme of Zanzibar and Oman and was a daughter of Sayyid Said.

Sayyid Barghash bin Said Al-Busaid, GCMG, GCTE ( 1837 – March 26, 1888 ) (), son of Said bin Sultan, was the second Sultan of Zanzibar.

* 1837-1870: Sayyid Barghash bin Said

* 1870-1875: His Highness Sultan Sayyid Barghash bin Said, Sultan of Zanzibar

* 1875-1883: His Highness Sultan Sayyid Barghash bin Said, Sultan of Zanzibar, GCTE

* 1883-1888: His Highness Sultan Sayyid Sir Barghash bin Said, Sultan of Zanzibar, GCMG, GCTE

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Sayyid Khalifa I bin Said Al-Busaid, GCMG, ( or Chalîfe ) ( 1852-February 13, 1890 ) () was the third Sultan of Zanzibar.

* 1852-26 March 1888: Sayyid Khalifa I bin Said

* 26 March-13 June 1888: His Highness Sultan Sayyid Khalifa I bin Said, Sultan of Zanzibar

* 13 June 1888-1890: His Highness Sultan Sayyid Sir Khalifa I bin Said, Sultan of Zanzibar, GCMG

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* 1854-13 February 1890: Sayyid Ali I bin Said

* 13 February-8 November 1890: His Highness Sultan Sayyid Ali I bin Said, Sultan of Zanzibar

* 8 November 1890-1893: His Highness Sultan Sayyid Sir Ali I bin Said, Sultan of Zanzibar, GCSI

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Sayyid Majid bin Said Al-Busaid ( 1834-October 7, 1870 ) () was the first Sultan of Zanzibar.

Majid became Sultan of Zanzibar and Oman on the death of his father, Sayyid Said bin Sultan, but his accession was contested.

Following the struggle over the accession to the position of Sultan of Oman, Zanzibar and Oman were divided into two separate principalities, with Majid ruling Zanzibar and his older brother Sayyid Thuwaini bin Said al-Busaid ruling Oman.