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Nyrop, Richard F. (1977). Area Handbook for the Persian Gulf States.Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 448 These three royal families – Al Sabah of Kuwait, Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, and Al Khalifah of Bahrain – consider themselves the most important lineages on the Arabian Peninsula.
Shaikh or Sheikh (Sindhi: شيخ), is a Sindhi tribe or caste. The "Shaikh" word is an Arabic term meaning elder of a tribe, lord, revered old man, or Islamic scholar . The Shaikhs of Sindh are one of the major tribe of the Sindhi Muslims ethnic group; they are converted from Sindhi Hindu Lohana / Brahmin tribes.
The subdivisions of the Shaikh include: Shaikh Qidwai, who claim to be descendants of the Qazi Qidwa, a son of the Sultans of Rum. The Qidwai were recruited in the household cavalry of Shuja-ud-Daula, which was mainly composed of the Sheikhzadgan. [2] [3] These clans had not taken any profession other than a soldier or a civil officer. [4]
The word Shershabadia (from Persian: شرشابادیا) literally means the inhabitants of the land known as Sarsabad/Shershabad in Bengal Subah.The term is derived from the community's place of origin known as Jawar-e-Sarsabad or Circle/Division of Sarsabad in Mughal Bengal province, which was reduced to a mere Pargana known as Sarsabad/Sersabad later on corrupted into Shershabad/Shershahabad.
Shaykh ul-Islam Mehmet Cemaleddin Efendi during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. Following the foundation of the Ottoman state, the title of Sheikh-ul-Islam (Turkish: Şeyhülislâm), formerly used in the Abbasid Caliphate, was given to a leader authorized to issue legal opinion or fatwa.
Sheikhs of Tungipara, currently the most powerful political family in Bangladesh. Khan Sahib Sheikh Mosharraf Hossain, member of the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly; Sheikh Kabir Hossain, businessman and president of Association of Private Universities of Bangladesh