Samarkand and Bukhara

[CheGuvera]

Re: Samarkand and Bukhara

@Pakistan4ever

A lot of "Syeds" (meaning descendents of Arabs/Muhammad pbuh) in South Asia are either fake Syeds (probably adopted that title when converted to Islam), or their Arab/prophet lineage is so much diluted (because of inter-racial marriages through the centuries) that their Syedness is negligible. :)

This phenomenon is particuarly true of the shia, a distinctively bihari shia would have no scruples in claiming in being a Syed and a direct decendant of the Prophet...