Sayyid (pronounced [ˈsæjjɪd], or [ˈsæjjed], Arabic: سيد‎; meaning Mister; plural Sadah Arabic: سادة‎, Sādah) is an honorific title, it denotes males accepted as descendants of the Islamic prophet Muhammad through his grandsons, Hasan ibn Ali and Husain ibn Ali, sons of the prophet's daughter Fatima Zahra and his son-in-law Ali ibn Abi Talib.^[1]

Daughters of sayyids are given the titles Sayyida, Alawiyah, Syarifah, or Sharifah. Children of a Sayyida mother but a non-Sayyid father cannot be attributed the title of Sayyid, however they may claim the title Mirza for males or Mirziya for females. Sayyids are by definition a branch of the tribe of Banu Hashim, a clan from the tribe of Quraish that traces its lineage to Adnan and thence to the Prophet Ismael.

In the Arab world, it is the equivalent of the English word "liege-lord" or "master" when referring to a descendant of Muhammad, as in Sayyid John Smith.^[2] This is the reason the word sidi (from the contracted form sayyidī, 'my liege') is used in the Moroccan dialect of Arabic.^[3]

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Islamic scholar Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi
Title	Hujjatul Islām wal Muslimeen
Born	1957[1]
Died	N/A
Ethnicity	Indian[1]
Region	India[1] * Dar es Salaam, Tanzania[1] * Vancouver, British Columbia[1] * Vaughan, Ontario
Maddhab	Twelver Shī‘ah, Usuli
Main interests	History, Islamic History, Fiqh
Influences	Grand Ayatullah Vahid Khorasani[1]

Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi (Arabic: سيد محمد رضوي‎, born in 1957) is a Twelver Shī‘ah scholar, a speaker, as well as an author.^[1] He is the second-born son of Sa‘eed Akhtar Rizvi.

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Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi was born in the Saran district of Bihar, India.^[1] He migrated with his family to Tanzania, where he underwent elementary schooling.^[1] In 1972 he went to Qom for religious studies where he pursued his Ijtihad under Ayatullah al-Uzma Shaikh Wahid Khurãsãni. . After successfully attaining the rank of mujtahid, he returned to India in 1982.^[1]

In 1983 he migrated with his family to Vancouver, and by 1991 he completed his Master of Arts degree in History (with no prior undergraduate degree), at Simon Fraser University.^[1] He then moved to Ontario in the same year, and since 1996^[1] he has been the Imam of the Islamic Shia Ithna Asheri Jamaat of Toronto.

Among his many accomplishments is building bridges with people of other faiths. He has been a key figure in conducting numerous interfaith dialogues and has written literature promoting peace and understanding.

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His published works include:

• An Explanatory Translation of the Qur'ān. Canada: SMR Publications. 1984. ISBN 0-920675-06-9. 
• Imam Husayn: the Saviour of Islam. 1984. 
• Khums an Islamic Tax. 1984. 
  • Khums an Islamic Tax. Qom: Ansariyan Publications. 1993. 
• The Ritual Ablutions for Women (Tahāratu 'N-Nisā'). Canada: Vancouver Islamic Educational Foundation. 1985. ISBN 0-920675-11-5. 
• The Ritual & Spiritual Purity. Qom: Ansariyan Publications. 1989. ISBN 978-964-438-083-9. 
• Marriage & Morals in Islam. Canada: Vancouver Islamic Educational Foundation. 1990. ISBN 0-920675-10-7. 
  • Marriage & Morals in Islam. Qom: Ansariyan Publications. 1999. 
• An Introduction to the Islamic Shari‘ah. Qom: Ansariyan Publications. 1992. 
• Writing an Islamic Will. Canada: Al-Ma‘ārif Books. 1993. 
• Hajj: The Pilgrimage to Mecca. 1996. 
• Shī‘ism Imāmate & Wilāyat. Canada: Al-Ma‘ārif Books. 1999. ISBN 0-920675-11-5. 
• Islam: Faith, Practice & History. Qom: Ansariyan Publications. 2004. 
• Hijab: A Muslim Woman's Dress. 2004. 
• The Infallibility of the Prophets in the Qur'an. Canada: Al-Ma‘ārif Books. 2005. 
  • (in Swahili) The Infallibility of the Prophets in the Qur'an. Dar es Salaam: Bilal Muslim Mission of Tanzania. 2008. 
• Islamic Business Ethics. Canada: Al-Ma‘ārif Books. 2007. ISBN 0-920675-12-3. 

Works which he co-authored:

• Rizvi, Sayyid Sa‘īd Akhtar; Rizvi, Sayyid Muhammad (1985). Imāmate: (the Vicegerency of the Prophet). World Organization for Islamic Services. ISBN 0-920675-11-5. 
• Rizvi, Sayyid Muhammad; Kanju, Muhammad S. (2003) (in Swahili). Imam al-Mehdi. Dar es Salaam: Bilal Muslim Mission of Tanzania. ISBN 9987-620-38-8. 

See also[link]

• Sa‘eed Akhtar Rizvi
• List of Shi'a Muslim scholars of Islam

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Sayyid Qutb
Sayyid Qutb behind bars in an Egyptian prison
Born	(1906-10-09)October 9, 1906, Mūshā, Egypt
Died	August 29, 1966(1966-08-29) (aged 59)
Ethnicity	Egyptian
Region	Middle East
Maddhab	Shafi'i
Main interests	Islam, Politics, Quranic exegesis (tafsir)
Notable ideas	Jahiliyyah, Ubudiyya
Works	Milestones, In the Shade of the Quran
Influences	Hassan al-Banna, Ibn al-Qayyim, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi

Sayyid Qutb (Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [ˈsæjjed ˈʔotˤb], Arabic: [ˈsæjjed ˈqotˤb]) (also Said, Syed, Seyyid, Sayid, or Sayed; Koteb, Qutub, Kotb, or Kutb) (Arabic: سيد قطب‎; October 9, 1906^[1] – August 29, 1966) was an Egyptian author, educator, Islamist theorist, poet, and the leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and '60s.

Author of 24 books, including novels, literary arts’ critique and works on education, he is best known in the Muslim world for his work on what he believed to be the social and political role of Islam, particularly in his books Social Justice and Ma'alim fi-l-Tariq (Milestones). His magnum opus, Fi Zilal al-Qur'an (In the shade of the Qur'an), is a 30-volume commentary on the Qur'an.

During most of his life, Qutb's inner circle mainly consisted of influential politicians, intellectuals, poets and literary figures, both of his age and of the preceding generation. By the mid-1940s, many of his writings were officially among the curricula of schools, colleges and universities.^[2]