Hashimites of Kakori
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The Hashimites of Kakori, a collection of genealogical records of Kakorian Alavi and Abbasi families on website [1] by Misbahuddin Zafar Alavi published in 2006, is a revision, update and rendition into English of two classical Urdu books, Nafhatun Nasim, an authentic record of scions of a sixteenth century sage Mulla Abdul Karim Alavi by Amir Ahmed Alavi published in 1934 and Abbasiyan-i- Kakori, the genealogical records of Kakorian Abbasi family by Muhammad Hasan Abbasi published in 1945. In its present form, Hashimites of Kakori contains genealogical records of an intricate familial hierarchy that evolved predominantly from three houses, the Moulvis, Makhdooms and Qazis The patriarchs of all three houses were emigrés hailing from the Banu Hashim clan of the Quraysh tribe of Hejaz (present day Saudi Arabia), who settled in Kakori since the early advent of Islam in the region, back in the 1400s. Their ensuing generations, being passionate in their resolve to protect their Arab heritage, have fostered matrimonial alliances preferentially with the people of authentic Arab descent to embrace allies into their folds, thereby, cultivating a very tradition-bound society with its home in Kakori until the diaspora following the foundation of Pakistan in 1947. Today, Kakorian Hashimites are spread far and wide across Australia, Canada, Europe, India, Middle East, Pakistan, UK, and USA.
