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Hashemite
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Hash·e·mite also Hash·i·mite  (hsh-mt)
n.
A member of a princely Arab family claiming direct descent from the prophet Muhammad.

[From Arabic him, from haama, to destroy, smash; see hm in Semitic roots.]


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The Hashemites - Sunni Arab descendants of the Prophet Mohammed through his daughter Fatima's son Hassan, who was the last of his line from Ali (his father and Mohammed's cousin/son-in-law, founder of Shiism) to hold the Sunni Caliphate - now are ruling Jordan.
 
 
 
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