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sheikh

الشيخ ar شیخ fa

Arabic and Islamic honorific title

  • Also called Sheik, Shaikh, Shekh

Overview

Arabic and Islamic honorific titleWikidata record description. Read Sheikh in the Wikipedia reader.

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Who held it, in order

A sequence of office-holders, not a family genealogy.

  • 3 holders
  • 2 steps named in the records
  1. 1195 CE – 1217 CE Abd al-Haqq I Marinid dynasty leader (1157–1217)
  2. 1217 CE – 1240 CE Abu Sa'id Uthman I, Marinid Marinid Sheikh (1196–1240)
  3. 1240 CE – 1244 CE Muhammad ibn Abd Al-Haqq Marinid ruler from 1240 to 1244

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