Sayyids in Iran

Short description: Honorific Islamic title in Iran

Iranian Sayyids

سیدهای ایران

Ali Khamenei, supreme leader of Iran, is a sayyid. In Shia Islam, sayyids are the only ones allowed to wear a black turban

Total population
over 6,000,000
Languages
Persian
Religion
Islam (mostly Shia)

Sayyids have a long history in Iran and are extremely large in population.

## History

Sayyids are very common in Iran. More than 6 million of Iranians are Sayyid.[1] Most Sayyids came from Arab areas during Safavid rule. The Safavids made Iran Twelver Shia. Since most of the population was Sunni, Ismail relocated Ulama who were Sayyids from Shia enclaves of Arab lands, such as Lebanon, Syria, Bahrain, and most commonly Iraq in order to create a state clergy. The Safavids offered land and money in return for loyalty.[2][3][4][5][6] These scholars taught Twelver Shiism, made it accessible to the population, and energetically encouraged conversion to Shiism.[3][4][5][6][7]

## References

1. ↑ Six million people of Iran's population are Sadaat (Sayyid) / Tehran and Mazandaran (provinces) are the record owner of Sadaats in the country farsnews.com 1 February 2018
2. ↑ Floor, Willem; Herzig, Edmund (2015). Iran and the World in the Safavid Age. I.B.Tauris. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-78076-990-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=HZNpBgAAQBAJ&q=safavids+imported+lebanon. "In fact, at the start of the Safavid period Twelver Shi'ism was imported into Iran largely from Syria and Mount Lebanon (...)"
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 The failure of political Islam, by Olivier Roy, Carol Volk, pg.170
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Cambridge illustrated history of the Islamic world, by Francis Robinson, pg.72
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 The Middle East and Islamic world reader, by Marvin E. Gettleman, Stuart Schaar, pg.42
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 The Encyclopedia of world history: ancient, medieval, and modern ... by Peter N. Stearns, William Leonard Langer, pg.360
7. ↑ Shaery-Eisenlohr, Roschanack (1 January 2008). Shiʻite Lebanon: Transnational Religion and the Making of National Identities. Columbia University Press. pp. 12–13. ISBN 9780231144261. https://books.google.com/books?id=l1ybylkCCLAC. Retrieved 15 November 2015.

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