Sadaat-e-Kintoor

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Sadaat-e-Kintoor are a distinguished lineage of Indian Sayyids historically based in Kintoor (in present-day Uttar Pradesh), known for their religious scholarship, social influence, and claims of descent from the Prophet Muhammad.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Sadaat-e-Bilgram 1
Sadaat-e-Kintoor canonical 1

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Muslim family
Sayyid lineage
religious scholarly lineage
associatedWith Sufi networks in North India
madrasas and religious education
claimsDescentFrom Ahl al-Bayt
Banu Hashim
Prophet Muhammad
linked to: Muhammad
communityRole arbitrators in local disputes
custodians of Islamic learning
countryOfOrigin India
culturalSphere Indo-Islamic culture
endogamyPattern preference for marriage within Sayyid and ashraf groups
ethnoReligiousIdentity Sayyid
linked to: Sayyids
familyNameForm Kintoori
linked to: Kintoor
heritageStatus hereditary religious authority
heritageType lineage-based religious nobility
historicalInfluence influence on local Islamic practice in Kintoor region
historicalRegion Oudh
historicalRole intermediaries between rulers and rural society
local religious leadership
identityMarker emphasis on prophetic lineage
use of the honorific title Sayyid
knownFor Sayyid ancestry
landholding status
religious scholarship
social influence
language Hindi
Urdu
linked to: Urdu language
locatedIn Barabanki district
India
Kintoor
Uttar Pradesh
migrationPattern some members migrated abroad from the 19th–20th centuries
some members migrated to other parts of India
region North India
linked to: northern India
religiousAffiliation Islam
religiousAuthorityBasis Islamic scholarship
descent from the Prophet Muhammad
religiousTradition Sunni Islam
socialOrganization extended kin-based networks
socialStatus ashraf
elite Muslim gentry
subgroupOf Indian Sayyids
linked to: Sayyids

South Asian Sayyids
linked to: Sayyids
typeOfDescentClaim patrilineal descent from the Prophet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sayyids hasSubgroup Sadaat-e-Bilgram
linked to: Sadaat-e-Kintoor
Sayyids hasSubgroup Sadaat-e-Kintoor