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- Prosecutors said Alid followed an "extreme interpretation of Islam" and had issues with his housemate, Iranian-national Javed Nouri, 31, who had converted to Christianity.
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The Alids are those who claim descent from Ali ibn Abi Talib (Arabic: عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; c. 600–661 CE), the fourth Rashidun caliph (r. 656–661) and the first imam in Shia Islam. Ali was also the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
In early Islam, those who contended that only a member of the Prophet's clan of Hashim (descendants of Ali) should rule and that political legitimacy lay in genealogy; the Shii community. Others, such as the Umayyads, held that consensus of the Muslim community was necessary to establish a legitimate claim to head the Islamic community.
Following the death of Muhammad in 632, a strong body of opinion within the nascent Muslim community—the antecedents of the Shi'a—held the Family of Muhammad (Al Muhammad) to be the only rightful leaders, who would have the divine guidance necessary to rule according to the Quran and bring justice.
- September 762-February 763
- Abbasid victory, death of the Alid leaders
- Hejaz and southern Iraq
This first in-depth study of the 'Alids focuses on the crucial formative period from the Abbasid Revolution of 750 to the Saljuq period of 1100.
- Teresa Bernheimer
Alid claims refer to the assertions made by individuals claiming descent from Ali ibn Abi Talib, the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, which is central to the Shia identity and theology.
The Alids are those who claim descent from Ali ibn Abi Talib, the fourth Rashidun caliph and the first imam in Shia Islam. Ali was also the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
In the 9th–10th centuries, the northern Iranian regions of Tabaristan, Daylam and Gilan, sandwiched between the Caspian Sea and the Alborz range, came under the rule of a number of Arab Alid dynasties, espousing the Zaydi branch of Shia Islam.
