Hasanids

The Hasanids (Arabic: بنو حسن, romanized: Banū Ḥasan or حسنيون, Ḥasanīyyūn) are the descendants of Hasan ibn Ali, a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

They are a branch of the Alids (the descendants of Ali ibn Abi Talib), and one of the two most important branches of the ashrāf (the other being the descendants of Hasan's brother Husayn, the Husaynids).^[1]

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 Hasanid descent. The Moroccan Hasanids proper have produced two dynasties, the Saadi dynasty and the Alaouite dynasty, which still reigns over the country.^[1]

Dynasties[]

Notable Hasanid dynasties include:

• Alaouite dynasty of Morocco^[1]
• 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^[1]
• Senussid dynasty of Algeria
• Sulaymanids of Mecca, Jizan and Yemen
• Sulaymanid dynasty of western Algeria
• House of Maiduniya of Northern Nigeria
• Muallimawa of Kano, Northern Nigeria
• of Northern Nigeria

References[]

Sources[]

• Deverdun, G. (1971). "Ḥasanī". In Lewis, B.; Ménage, V. L.; Pellat, Ch. & Schacht, J. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition, Volume III: H–Iram. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 256–257. OCLC 495469525.