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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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In fact, this custody was vested in the Prophet's family of the Hashimite clan.
Anderson thus characterizes the Jordanian textbooks, not as objects of derision but, rather, as a palpable reminder of the domineering and overbearing influence the Muslim Brotherhood has grown to exert over the Ministry of Education in the Hashimite state (76-7).
North Yemen was ruled by these Hashimite Zaidis for more than 1,000 years until they were overthrown by an alliance of nationalist Sunni and Shia military officers in 1962 who then founded the Yemen Arab Republic.
 
 
 
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