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ajiss-1057	Inloes, Amina	The ‘Alids: The First Family of Islam, 750-1200 By Teresa Bernheimer (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. 119 pages.)	2014.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1648	58	49	Otherwise, marrying out would “commonise” ‘Alid women and “com- promise the family’s special status, on which claims to privileges and social exceptionalism were based” (p. 50); (2) keeping these women within the family communicated a sense of elitism, because “one only gives one’s daughters in marriage to one’s equals or superiors” (p. 35)’ and (3) ‘Alid men sometimes married outside the family, generally to women of noble birth (Arab or other- wise), to bring more resources into the family, as well as (for the politically ac- tive type) to increase their support base. Chapter 3, on ‘Alid marriage patterns, opens with a contemporary account of a scandal that ensued after a Hadrami sayyidah in Southeast Asia married a non-‘Alid man and how that, in turn, led some people to “question openly the centuries-long domination of the sayyids […] setting in motion events that ar- guably led to the Yemeni revolution” (p. 62).	cache/ajiss-1057.pdf	txt/ajiss-1057.txt