Hasanids

The Ḥasanids (Arabic: بنو حسن, romanized: Banū Ḥasan or حسنيون, Ḥasanīyyūn) are the descendants of Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī, brother of Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī and grandson of Muhammad. They are a branch of the Alids (the descendants of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib), and one of the two most important branches of the ashrāf (the other being the descendants of Ḥasan's brother Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī, the Ḥusaynids).^[1]

al-Hasani الحسني
Hashemite Arab Tribe
Medallion bearing the name of Hasan inscribed with Islamic calligraphy in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey.
Ethnicity	Arab
Nisba	al-Hasani
Location	Arabia
Descended from	Hasan ibn Ali
Parent tribe	Banu Hashim
Demonym(s)	Hasanis
Branches	Rassids Idrisids Qatadids Abadilah Sulaymanids
Religion	Islam

In Morocco, the term is particularly applied to the descendants of Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, to distinguish them from the Idrisid dynasty, which is also of Ḥasanid descent. The Moroccan Ḥasanids proper have produced two dynasties, the Saadi dynasty and the Alawite dynasty, which still reign over the country.^[1]

Dynasties

Notable Ḥasanid dynasties in the Muslim world include:

• Alawite dynasty of Morocco^[1]
• Alavid dynasty of Tabaristan
• Banu Ukhaidhir of Central Arabia
• Bolkiah dynasty of Brunei
• Hammudid dynasty of Southern Spain
• Idrisid dynasty of Morocco
• the various dynasties providing the Sharifs of Mecca; including the Hashemites (Banu Qatadah) of the Hejaz, Syria, and Iraq, now ruling only in Jordan
• Rassid dynasty of Yemen
• Saadi dynasty of Morocco^[1]
• Senussid dynasty of Algeria and Libya
• Sulaymanids of Mecca, Jizan, and Yemen
• Sulaymanid dynasty of Western Algeria