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List of Ba'alawi people

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Ba 'Alawi people belong to a group of Hadhrami Sayyid families and social groups originating in Hadhramaut in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemen republic in particular. The word Sadah or Sadat is a plural form of the Arabic word Sayyid ("Descendants of Muhammad"). The word Ba 'Alawi means descendants of Alwi. The Hadhramis use the prefex "Baa" to mean the clan of.

Ba'alwi sada are descendants of the Islamic Prophet "Muhammad" through Alwi bin Ubaidillah bin Ahmad al-Muhajir. Al muhajir means the one who migrated. He migrated from Iraq due to political instability and settled in Huseisah, a village between Sey'un and Tarim in Yemen and that was in the year 318 A.H. Corresponding to 930 C.E.

Africa

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Comoros

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Tanzania

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There two groups of Alawy in Zanzibar known Al baalawy and Al bahassan.

Yusuph Alawy bin Mussa bin Alawy

Sheikh Ahmad yusuph Alawy lives in kiembe Samaki Zanzibar

Kenya

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Australia

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  • Jai al-Attas, co-founder and co-owner of Australian independent label Below Par Records.

Middle-east

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UAE

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Yemen

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Saudi Arabia

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Asia

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Indian subcontinent

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Indonesia

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Malaysia

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Singapore

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Philippines

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References

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