Taqbil

Taqbil or Taqbeel (

Hadhrami people of Yemen.^[1]

Description

Taqbil in Arabic literally means Kissing. In Hadhramaut, the Sayyid people receive gestures of respect from the rest of population in recognition of their descent from Muhammad. These gestures include the method of greeting, in which their hand (usually right hand) is kissed and/or sniffed. This hand-kissing is performed even when the recipient is still a child or a person without any special distinction in terms of religious knowledge or piety, in recognition of the nobility of the bloodline rather than the merits of the particular individual.^[1] This tradition of Taqbil was called Shamma in Hadhramaut.^[2]

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, some members of the

Shafi'i authorities.^[1]

The tradition currently is no longer common among

Hadhrami, except when a person greets a respected Sayyid out of paying respect to his knowledge-ability or piety (such as to a Habib or a Shaikh) .^{[citation needed}

]

References

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ISBN 978-0-791489352
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ISBN 978-8-190388788
. Retrieved August 28, 2014.

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[edge-1] 
ISBN 978-0-791489352
.

[mapilla-2] ISBN 978-8-190388788
. Retrieved August 28, 2014.

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