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Sayyid
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Sayyid 

(Arabic, “lord”), the honorary title of Muslims tracing their ancestry back to Muhammad or, among the Shiites, back to Ali. In Arabia of the early Middle Ages, a sayyid was the leader of a tribal alliance or tribe; in this sense, the term sometimes corresponds to “sheikh.”



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ISLAMABAD, November 19, 2009 (Balochistan Times): PPP has nominated Syed Mehdi Shah as chief minister of Gilgit-Baltistan.
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