Our very faint hope of this was only founded on the fact that the seyyids of Meshed are at enmity with those of Siwoun.
When the two lines met they shook hands and kissed, the sultans and seyyids being kissed on the forehead and the upper part of the leg.
Thirdly, we have the Seyyids and Sherifs, a sort of aristocratic hierarchy, who trace their descent from the daughter and son of the Prophet.
The Kattiri kabila, or tribe, really came to Siwoun to be ready for us, but the seyyids had collected a large sum of money and bribed the sultan to send them away.
It must be remembered that the Kattiri Bedouin were for us (no doubt in view of the payment of siyar), while the seyyids and Arabs of that tribe at Siwoun, and their friends at Terim, were against us.
We passed the tall white dome of Sheikh Aboubekr-bin-Hassan's tomb, near which the ruling family are buried if the seyyids permit.
Seyyids and Sherifs are to be found in all the large towns and considerable villages, and even the Arab sultans show them a marked respect and kiss their hands when they enter a room.
Seyyids and mollahs form a considerable proportion of it, and it is one of the strongholds of the B[=a]bis.
They are utterly lax in observing the precepts of the Koran, even prayer at the canonical hours is very rarely practised, and then chiefly by Seyyids and Hadjis.
The crowds of men mostly wore the Kurdish or Turkish costume, but black-robed and white-turbaned Seyyids and mollahs were not wanting.
There is, however, a large number of Seyyids or descendants of the Prophet, and of townsmen of northern origin, besides a considerable class of African or mixed descent.
In Mosul the chief of the Seyyids once told the doctor a story relating to a remarkable dream.
The Seyyids are another class of people much respected in the country.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seyyids" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
