Exploration of the Status and the Role of the Sayyids In Social- Political Developments of the Indian Sub-continent (380-932 AH)

In the present writing, the Sayyids’ presence in the Indian subcontinent under the Turks and the political-religious evolutions arising from it was investigated. Sayyids were one of the most important classes entering the Indian subcontinent in the political-military evolutions of the Muslims in India. With their influential speeches and humane character, the Sayyids caused the Hindus to accept their beliefs, and their religious power as well as their social influence caused the Sunnite Sultans to always feel a need to them. In view of their religious status in the Islamic world, the Sayyids succeeded to promote Islam and Shiism in the Indian subcontinent, and to strengthen their status among the Sultans and people by playing role in the social issues in Indian society as well as participating in political rivalries there. The present study deals with identifying the first Sayyids and how they were established in various regions in India as well as investigating their position in the society and in the political system of the rulers in the subcontinent and, in general, the political-social evolutions from their arrival up to the end of the Turks’ era using a historical investigation and a descriptive-analytical method.