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Map of Egypt under Muhammad Ali's dynasty. The Muhammad Ali dynasty or the Alawiyya dynasty was the ruling dynasty of Egypt and Sudan from the 19th to the mid-20th century. It is named after its progenitor, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, regarded as the founder of modern Egypt.
The dynasty claims descent from Muhammad via Hasan, the son of Ali.The name 'Alawi (Arabic: علوي) stems either from the name of Ali (the father of Hasan), [16] from which the dynasty ultimately traces its descent, or from the name of the dynasty's early founder Ali al-Sharif of the Tafilalt. [17]
The Alawi Sultanate, [4] [a] officially known as the Sharifian Sultanate (Arabic: السلطنة الشريفة) and as the Sultanate of Morocco, was the state ruled by the 'Alawi dynasty over what is now Morocco, from their rise to power in the 1660s to the 1912 Treaty of Fes that marked the start of the French protectorate.
The Manial Palace and Museum is a former Alawiyya dynasty era palace and grounds on Rhoda Island on the Nile. It is of Ottoman architecture and located in the Sharia Al-Saray area in the El-Manial district of southern Cairo , Egypt .
Alawi dynasty, the current royal family of Morocco since the 17th century; Alawiyya dynasty, the former royal family of Egypt and Sudan; Alavids, the Zaydi Alid dynasty of Tabaristan in northern Iran during the 9th and 10th centuries; Ba 'Alawi sada, a family and social group in Yemen and descendants of Imam Ahmad al-Muhajir through Alawi bin ...
Alawites [b] are an Arab ethnoreligious group [16] who live primarily in the Levant region in West Asia and follow Alawism. [17] A sect of Islam that splintered from early Shia as a ghulat branch during the ninth century, [18] [19] [20] Alawites venerate Ali ibn Abi Talib, the "first Imam" in the Twelver school, as a manifestation of the divine essence.
This list includes defunct and extant monarchical dynasties of sovereign and non-sovereign statuses at the national and subnational levels. Monarchical polities each ruled by a single family—that is, a dynasty, although not explicitly styled as such, like the Golden Horde and the Qara Qoyunlu—are included.
Zirid dynasty (972–1148) Almoravid dynasty (1040–1147; Maghreb, Spain) Almohad dynasty (1121–1269) Ayyubid dynasty (1171–1254) Hafsid dynasty (1229–1574) Nasrid dynasty (1232–1492; Granada, Ceuta) Marinid dynasty (1244–1465) Abbasid Caliph (1250–1517; North Africa, Middle East) under Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo; Wattasid dynasty ...