Qurayshite

alternative Koreishite · alternative Kuraishite · alternative Quraishite

1. not comparableIslampart of, or descended from, the Quraysh tribe.

   He sought to understand the social contexts in which Qurayshite descent was a reasonable condition and those in which it was not.

   2014, Syed Farid Alatas, Applying Ibn Khaldūn: The Recovery of a Lost Tradition in Sociology, Routledge, →ISBN, page 72

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   A member of the Qurayshite Umayyad family wanted to claim the poet al-Farazdaq's bride al-Nawār, though the poet thought he could prove that he had a clear claim because he had paid the bride price.

   1971, Ignaz Goldziher, edited by S. M. Stern, Muslim Studies, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 77

   If anyone comes to Muhammad from the Qurayshite camp without the permission of his superiors, he [Muhammad] will send him back; however, if any of those who are with Muhammad comes to the Qurayshite camp, they [the Qurayshites] will not send him back.

   2011, Taha Jabir Alalwani, Apostasy in Islam: A Historical and Scriptural Analysis, International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), →ISBN, pages 62–63

plural Qurayshites · alternative Koreishite · alternative Kuraishite · alternative Quraishite

1. Islama member of this tribe.

   At this point, having twice delivered up Abū Basīr to the Qurayshites, Muḥammad felt that he had fulfilled his obligation under the treaty.

   2002, Maxime Rodinson, Muhammad: Prophet of Islam, Tauris Parke Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 257

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   The fortuitous circumstances that the first man to be elected to this high office was a Qurayshite became, for all except the heterodox, a principle — the caliph had to be a member of the Prophet's tribe, and the Prophet was a Qurayshite.

   1995, Ann Katherine Swynford Lambton, Bernard Lewis, The Cambridge History of Islam: The Indian sub-continent, South-East Asia, Africa and the Muslim west, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 57

   The Banu-Khuzaa, who had entered into an alliance with Muhammad at Mecca, were for a long time at bloody enmity with the neighboring tribe of Banu-Bakr, who were in alliance with the Qurayshites.

   2007, Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, translated by Vladimir Wozniuk, Enemies from the East?: V. S. Soloviev on Paganism, Asian Civilizations, and Islam, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 204