Kuraishite
Kuraishite is the alternative form of Qurayshite.
Meaning of Qurayshite
Noun
Qurayshite (plural Qurayshites)
- a member of this tribe.
- 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
Forms of Kuraishite
| plural | Kuraishites |
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Questions about Kuraishite
- What is Kuraishite the alternative form of?
- Kuraishite is the alternative form of Qurayshite.
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