Qurayshite
Qurayshite adjective: part of, or descended from, the Quraysh tribe.
Adjective
Qurayshite (not comparable)
- part of, or descended from, the Quraysh tribe.
- 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
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
- 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
Examples of Qurayshite in a sentence
- 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:
- 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...
Forms of Qurayshite
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Koreishite |
| alternative form | Kuraishite |
| alternative form | Quraishite |
| Noun | |
| plural | Qurayshites |
Origin of Qurayshite
From Quraysh + -ite.
Questions about Qurayshite
- What does Qurayshite mean?
- Qurayshite means part of, or descended from, the Quraysh tribe.
- How do you use Qurayshite in a sentence?
- He sought to understand the social contexts in which Qurayshite descent was a reasonable condition and those in which it was not.
- What part of speech is Qurayshite?
- Qurayshite can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near Qurayshite in the dictionary
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