Includes bibliographical references and index.

A social history of the 'Alids, in the crucial formative period from the Abbasid Revolution of 750 to the Seljuq period of 1100. It examines their rise from a religious point of view and as a social phenomenon, asking how this family attained and extended its status over the centuries.

Acknowledgements; 1. introduction; 2. genealogy, money and the drawing of boundaries; 3. shifting hierarchies and emphasising kinship: 'alid marriage patterns; 4. the niqaba, the headship of the 'alid family; 5. the 'alids as local nobility; 6. conclusion; bibliography; index.

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