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The first person of Ba 'Alawi sada to acquire the surname al-Haddad (The Ironsmith) was Imam al-Haddad's ancestor, Sayyid Ahmad bin Abu Bakr. The Sayyid, who lived in the ninth century of the Hijra , took to sitting at the ironsmith’s shop in Tarim much of the time, hence he was called Ahmad al-Haddad (Ahmad the Ironsmith).
Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad (born in Syria) is Professor Emerita of the History of Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations at the Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim–Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. Her interests and focus include contemporary Islam; intellectual, social and political history in the Arab world; Islam in the West ...
The word Sadah or Sadat (Arabic: سادة) is a plural form of word Sayyid (Arabic: سيد), while the word Ba 'Alawi or Bani 'Alawi means descendants of Alawi. In sum, Ba'alawi are Sayyids who have a blood descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad through Alawi ibn Ubayd Allah ibn Ahmad al-Muhajir .
Tarim (Arabic: تَرِيْم, romanized: Tarīm) is a historic town situated in Wadi Hadhramaut (Arabic: وادي حضرموت, lit. 'Valley of Hadhramaut'), Yemen.It is widely acknowledged as the theological, juridical, and academic center of the Hadhramaut Valley.
Some themes in modern Islamic thought include: The acknowledgement "with varying degrees of criticism or emulation", of the technological, scientific and legal achievements of the West; while at the same time objecting "to Western colonial exploitation of Muslim countries and the imposition of Western secular values" and aiming to develop a modern and dynamic understanding of science among ...
Shaykh Gibril Haddad is regarded as an accomplished and influential Islamic scholar, hadith expert , religious leader, author, and translator of classical Islamic texts. [2] [14] [1] He holds ijazas from over 150 scholars across the Muslim world and has translated and published over 30 works. [2] [5] [6]
Following the embargo by Arab oil exporters during the Israeli-Arab October 1973 War and the vast increase in petroleum export revenue that followed, [1] [2] [3] the international propagation of Salafism and Wahhabism within Sunni Islam [4] favored by the conservative oil-exporting Kingdom of Saudi Arabia [1] [5] [6] and other Gulf monarchies achieved a "preeminent position of strength in the ...
The book (and the genre) was noteworthy for rupturing the "organic link between Islamic tradition and the last days of the world", [140] using Western sources (such as Gustave Le Bon and William Guy Carr) that previously would have been ignored; and lack of Sahih Bukhari (i.e. top quality) hadith (he does quote Ibn Kathir and some hadith ...