LIBYA

The Sanussi Dynasty

GENEALOGY

• 1) Sayyid Muhammad al-Mahdi bin Sayyid Muhammad al-Sanussi (s/o Minna). He d. young.
• 2) Sayyid Muhammad al-Mahdi bin Sayyid Muhammad al-Sanussi, 2nd Grand Sanussi (s/o Fatima al-Fituri) - see below.
• 3) Sayyid Muhammad as-Sharif bin Sayyid Muhammad al-Sanussi. b. at Derna, 26^th August 1846 (s/o Fatima al-Fituri). Rector of the Jaghbub University. m. (first) in the Hijaz, 1859, Khadija (d.s.p. at Jaghbub, 1867), a Circassian lady. m. (second) at Jaghbub, 1867, Fatima (d. 1870), daughter of Muhammad bin al-Mukhtar, of Qafanta. m. (third) at Jaghbub, 1870, Khadija (b. ca. 1835; d. 1923), daughter of Abu Musa Umran bin Baraka al-Fituri of Zlitin in Tripolitania. m. (fourth) at Jaghbub, 1871, Fatima (b. ca. 1850; d. at Fort Lamy, Chad, 1934), daughter of ‘Umar bin Muhammad al-Ashhab, of Fezzan. m.  (fifth) at Jaghbub, 1890, Khadija (d. at Alexandria, Egypt, 1938), daughter of Mustafa bi ‘Abdu’l Wahab al-Mahjub. m.  (sixth) at Jaghbub, 1891, Aisha (d. at Jaghbub, 1932, bur. there), daughter of Muhammad as-Sharif al-Khattabi. He d. at Jaghbub, 12^th March 1896 (bur. at the Mosque there, exhumed and dumped in the dessert on the orders of Khadafy in 1984), having had issue five sons:
  • a) Sayyid Ahmad as-Sharif bin Sayyid Muhammad as-Sharif al-Sanussi, 3^rd Grand Sanussi (s/o Khadija al-Fituri) - see below.
  • b) Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid Pasha bin Sayyid Muhammad as-Sharif al-Sanussi. b. at Jaghbub, April 1881 (s/o Fatima al-Ashhab). Granted the title of Pasha-wiya, 1918. m. (first) at Jaghbub, 1896, Fatima, daughter of Ahmad bin Idris al-Ashhab. m. (second) at Kufra, 1905, Mabruka (d. at Kufra, 1910), daughter of Mustafa al-Mahjub. m. (third) at Kufra, 1906 (div.) Zahra al-Quraniyya, a Sudanese lady. m. (fourth) at Kufra, 1913 (div. 1922) Taj ul-Mulk al-Tariqiyya (d. 1922). m.  (fifth) at Kufra, 1914, Umm Bashayir, a Sudanese. m.  (sixth) at Kufra, 1914 (div. 1926), Maimuna, a Sudanese lady from Baghirmi. m.  (seventh) at Kufra, 1914, Radyana (b. ca. 1896), a Sudanese lady. m.  (eighth) at Kufra, 1916, Nafisa (d. 1916), daughter of Muhammad ‘Ali al-Ashhab. m.  (ninth) at Kufra, 1919, Halima al-Tariqiyya. m.  (tenth) at Kufra, 1921, Salma al-Tariqiyya. m.  (eleventh) at Kufra, 1925, Tulu al-Tariqiyya. He d. in a lorry in the Sudan, while returning from a pilgrimage to Mecca, December 1938, having had issue, thirteen sons and nine daughters:
    • i) Sayyid Muhammad as-Sharif bin Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1897 (s/o Fatima al-Ashhab). m. (first) at Kufra, 1917, Zainab. m. (second) at Kufra, 1920, his cousin, Sayyida Ruqayya binti Sayyid Ahmad as-Sharif al-Sanussi (b. after 1899; d.s.p. at Fort Lamy, Chad, 1932), second daughter of Field Marshal H.H. Sayyid Ahmad as-Sharif Pasha bin Sayyid Muhammad as-Sharif al-Sanussi, 3^rd Grand Sanussi, by his second wife, Khadija, daughter of Ahmad al-Rifi. He d. at Fort Lamy, Chad, 1931, having had issue, one son:
      • (1) Sayyid al-Bashir bin Sayyid Muhammad as-Sharif al-Sanussi. b. in the Wadai, 1919 (s/o Zainab).
    • ii) Sayyid Muhammad al-Sanussi bin Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1902 (s/o Fatima al-Ashhab). m. (first) at Kufra, 1920, a daughter (d. 1921) of Muhammad Salih al-Biskri. . m. (second) at Mersa Matruh, 1936, his cousin, Sayyida Fatima binti Sayyid Muhammad Hilal (b. at Kufra, 1907; d. at Alexandria, 1938), eldest daughter of his uncle, Sayyid Muhammad Hilal Pasha bin Sayyid Muhammad as-Sharif al-Sanussi, by his first wife, Fatima, daughter of Muhammad bin Muhammad al-Sharif al-Khattabi. m. (third) at Medina, 1941, Fatima, a lady from the Hijaz. He has issue, an only son:
      • (1) Sayyid Hafiz bin Sayyid Muhammad al-Sanussi al-Sanussi. b. at Medina, 1942 (s/o Fatima II).
    • iii) Sayyid Muhammad Jamal ud-din bin Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1907 (s/o Mabruka). m. in the French Sudan, 1932, Ashta. He had issue, one son:
      • (1) Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid bin Muhammad Jamal ud-din al-Sanussi. b. in Chad (s/o Ashta). He has issue, three sons:
        • (a) Sayyid Muhammad Yahya bin Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi.
        • (b) Sayyid Maulay Ahmad bin Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi.
        • (c) Sayyid Muhammad Abid bin Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi.
    • iv) Sayyid Ahmad Idris bin Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1907 (s/o Fatima as-Ashhab). Adopted by King Idris I. m. (first) in the French Sudan, 1930, Fatima, a lady from Mizda. m. (second) in the French Sudan, 1942, Atika, daughter of Muhammad Salih as-Biskri. m. (third) at Abu Rawwash, Egypt, 1944, his cousin, Sayyida Khadija binti Sayyid Muhammad al-Rida (b. at Kufra, 1914), third daughter of H.R.H. Sayyid Muhammad al-Rida Pasha, Crown Prince of Libya, by his eighth wife, Zainab al-Quraniyya. He has issue, three sons:
      • (1) Sayyid Muhammad Idris bin Sayyid Ahmad Idris al-Sanussi. b. 1921 (s/o Atika). He has issue, one son:
        • (a) Sayyid Muhsin bin Sayyid Muhammad Idris al-Sanussi.
      • (2) Sayyid al-Baghar bin Sayyid Ahmad Idris al-Sanussi.
      • (3) Sayyid Ja’afar Sadiq bin Sayyid Ahmad Idris al-Sanussi. No issue.
    • v) Sayyid Muhammad ‘Abdu’l Mutalib bin Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1908 (s/o Zahra al-Quraniyya). m. (first) at Kufra, 1922, Masuda al-Tariqiyya. m. (second) in Egypt, 1939, his cousin, Sayyida Fatima al-Nasira binti Sayyid Muhammad Saif ud-din (b. at Tarhuna, 1916), eldest daughter of Major-General Sayyid Muhammad Safi ud-din Pasha, by his fourth wife, Salama. He had issue, five sons:
      • (1) Sayyid Muhammad ‘Ali bin Sayyid Muhammad ‘Abdu’l Mutalib al-Sanussi. b. in Chad, 1925 (s/o Masuda al-Tariqiyya). He has issue, two sons:
        • (a) Sayyid Salah ud-din bin Sayyid Muhammad ‘Asli al-Sanussi.
        • (b) Sayyid Mustafa bin Sayyid Muhammad ‘Asli al-Sanussi.
      • (2) Sayyid Muhammad Abid bin Sayyid Muhammad ‘Abdu’l Mutalib al-Sanussi. b. in Chad, 1940 (s/o Sayyida Fatima al-Nasira).
      • (3) Sayyid Ahmad Fathi bin Sayyid Muhammad ‘Abdu’l Mutalib al-Sanussi. b. in Chad, 1942 (s/o Sayyida Fatima al-Nasira).
      • (4) Sayyid Nu’man bin Sayyid Muhammad ‘Abdu’l Mutalib al-Sanussi.
      • (5) Sayyid Muhammad Izz ud-din bin Sayyid Muhammad ‘Abdu’l Mutalib al-Sanussi.
    • vi) Sayyid Muhammad al-Mukhtar bin Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1915 (s/o Taj ul-Mulk). m. 1940, Fatima, a lady from Majabra, in Chad. He has issue, four sons:
      • (1) Sayyid Muhammad al-Mahdi bin Sayyid Muhammad al-Mukhtar al-Sanussi. b. in Chad, 1942 (s/o Fatima).
      • (2) Sayyid Sharif bin Sayyid Muhammad al-Mukhtar al-Sanussi.
      • (3) Sayyid Abid bin Sayyid Muhammad al-Mukhtar al-Sanussi.
      • (4) Sayyid Hasan bin Sayyid Muhammad al-Mukhtar al-Sanussi.
    • vii) Sayyid Ahmad Hafiz bin Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1917 (s/o Maimuna). m. in the French Sudan, Khadija, an Arab lady from the Fezzan. He has issue, four sons:
      • (1) Sayyid Fathi bin Sayyid Ahmad Hafiz al-Sanussi.
      • (2) Sayyid Hilal bin Sayyid Ahmad Hafiz al-Sanussi.
      • (3) Sayyid Mahdi bin Sayyid Ahmad Hafiz al-Sanussi.
      • (4) Sayyid al-Rida bin Sayyid Ahmad Hafiz al-Sanussi.
    • viii) Sayyid Muhammad Yahya bin Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1918 (s/o Radyana). m. (first) in the French Sudan, 1936, Hilwa. m. (second) 1941, Salma, of the Majabra. He had issue, two sons and one daughter:
      • (1) Sayyid Saif ud-din bin Sayyid Yahya al-Sanussi (s/o Hilwa).
      • (2) Sayyid al-Busairi bin Sayyid Yahya al-Sanussi (s/o Hilwa).
      • (1) Sayyida Suad binti Sayyid Yahya al-Sanussi. b. in Chad, 1942 (d/o Salma).
    • ix) Sayyid Muhammad Tahir bin Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1919 (s/o Umm Bashayir). m. (first) in the French Sudan, 1937, Aisha, of the Majabra. m. (second) in the French Sudan, 1942, Fatima, of the Majabra. m. (third) his cousin, Sayyida Radiyya binti Sayyid Muhammad Safi ud-din al-Sanussi (b. at Ajadabiya, 1922), second daughter of his uncle, Major-General Sayyid Muhammad Safi ud-din Pasha, by his fifth wife, Khadija He had issue, three sons:
      • (1) Sayyid Malik bin Sayyid Muhammad Tahir al-Sanussi. He had issue, one son:
        • (a) Sayyid Ihab bin Sayyid Malik al-Sanussi.
      • (2) Sayyid Fazil bin Sayyid Muhammad Tahir al-Sanussi.
      • (3) Sayyid Azim bin Sayyid Muhammad Tahir al-Sanussi.
    • x) Sayyid ‘Abdu’llah bin Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi [Prince Abdalla Al-Abed Al-Senussi]. b. at Kufra, 1919 (s/o Umm Bashayir). Granted the personal title of Pasha by King Idris Deprived of his styles and titles, 2^nd October 1954. Left Libya following the Ghadafi revolution November 1970. Settled in Egypt. Proprietor Sayyed Abdallah Senussi Co (SASCO). Dir Soc Misr d’Assurances S.A.A. Involved in an attempted military uprising against Gaddafi in June 1970. m. (first) 1939, Fatima. m. (second) 1950, Ghalia bint Nur Saleh. m. (third) Sayyida Fatima as-Zohra [Zahra] bint Sayyid Muhammad al-Rida al-Sanussi (b. at Jalu, 1923), sixth daughter of H.R.H. Crown Prince Sayyid Muhammad al-Rida Pasha, by his sixth wife, Hawa al-Hajarawiyya. He d. in exile, in Egypt, 1988, having had issue, five sons and five daughters
      • (1) Sayyid Hashim bin Sayyid ‘Abdu’llah al-Sanussi [Prince Hashem Abed Al-Senussi]. b. at Benghazi, Cyrenaica, 6^th September 1950 (s/o Ghalia), educ. Univ of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Left Libya following the Ghadafi revolution November 1970. Settled in Rome, Italy. m. 1976, an Italian national. He had issue, three children.
      • (2) Sayyid al-Mahdi bin Sayyid ‘Abdu’llah al-Sanussi [Prince Mahdi Abdallah Abed Al-Senussi]. b. at Benghazi, Cyrenaica, 8^th February 1956 (s/o Ghalia). Left Libya following the Ghadafi revolution November 1970. Entrepeneur. CFO Film & TV Dvsn of OKW Productions Inc, MD Washington Investment Capital. Chair City of Hope Charity Foundation Inc. Returned to Libya November 2012. He d. from heart failure, at Benghazi, 29^th May 2013.
      • (3) Sayyid Idris bin Sayyid ‘Abdu’llah al-Sanussi [Prince Idriss Abdallah Al-Senussi]. b. at Benghazi, Cyrenaica, 18^th January 1957 (s/o Ghalia), educ. Brummana High Sch, Brummana, Lebanon, and St Stephen’s International School, Rome, Italy. Left Libya following the Ghadafi revolution November 1970. Claiment for the leadership of the family since May 1989, who has assumed Royal styles and titles for himself and his family. Hon Presdt of the Sanussiya Fndn. Dir Washington Investment Partners LLC (Washington DC), IAS, China Sciences Conservational Power Ltd (Hong Kong) 2005, etc. m. (first) at Clark, Nevada, USA, 30^th January 1982 (div. 1986), Cindy Lea Heles (b. 29^th November 1956) (m. second, Khalid Saud), second daughter of Paul Judge Heles, of Eden Prairie, Hennepin Co, Minnesota, USA, sometime Presdt Heles Supply Co, and Chair of the Brds of the First National Bank of Buhl and of Brewster-Worthington. m. (second) Rome, Italy, 23^rd March 1987, Doña Ana María Quiñones Fernández [Princess Ana Maria al-Senussi] (b. at León, Spain, 1958), educ. at a convent sch in León and at Madrid, Spain, employed with Air Spain, in Palma de Mallorca, former wife of Don Giovanni Kustermann, Marquis de Konski, and daughter of an air force officer from Castille. He had issue, one son and one daughter:
        • (a) Sayyid Khalid bin Sayyid Idris al-Sanussi [Prince Khalid Idris Al-Senussi]. b. at Washington DC, USA, 23^rd February 1988 (s/o Anna Maria), educ. American Univ of Beirut, Lebanon.
        • (a) Sayyida Alia bint Idris al-Sanussi [Princess Alia Idris Al-Senussi]. b. at Washington DC, USA, 20^th February 1983 (d/o Cindy), educ. Aiglon Coll, Chesières-Villars, Switzerland, Brown Univ (BA 2003, MA 2004), Providence, Rhode Island, USA, and the London Sch of Economics & Political Science (LSE) (MSc 2005), London. Dir and Head of Sales at The Albion Art Gallery in London since 2005. Presdt The Friends of Aiglon Coll-UK. Patron of Art Dubai. Mbr Exec Cttee DIFC Gulf Art Fair 2007, Brd of Tate Young Patrons Group, Tate Cttee for Acquisitions of Middle Eastern & North African Art, Serpentine Gallery Future Contemporaries Cttee, etc.
      • (4) Sayyid al-Sharif bin Sayyid ‘Abdu’llah al-Sanussi (s/o Zahra). He d. 19xx.
      • (5) Sayyid al-Rida bin Sayyid ‘Abdu’llah al-Sanussi (s/o Zahra). He d. 19xx.
      • (1) Sayyida Fatima Sulaima bint Sayyid ‘Abdu’llah al-Sanussi. b. before 1950 (d/o Zahra). She d. in an accident as a toddler.
      • (2) Sayyida Fatima Suzann bint Sayyid ‘Abdu’llah al-Sanussi. b. 24^th April 1955 (d/o Zahra).
      • (3) Sayyida Fatima Mahasen bint Sayyid ‘Abdu’llah al-Sanussi (d/o Ghalia). She d. 19xx.
      • (4) Sayyida Fatima Salwa bint Sayyid ‘Abdu’llah al-Sanussi. b. 6^th February 1963 (d/o Ghalia).
      • (5) Sayyida Fatima Suhaila bint Sayyid ‘Abdu’llah al-Sanussi. b. 9^th April 1965 (d/o Ghalia).
    • xi) Sayyid Muhammad as-Siddiq bin Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1922 (s/o Maimuna). m. (first) at Cairo, Egypt, 1943, his cousin, Sayyida Ruqayya binti Sayyid Muhammad al-Rida (b. at Kufra, 1915), daughter of H.R.H. Sayyid Muhammad al-Rida Pasha, Crown Prince of Libya, by his fifth wife, Kulthum al-Mubawiyya. m. (second) …He had issue, two sons and one daughter:
      • (1) Sayyid Abid bin Sayyid as-Sadiq al-Sanussi.
      • (2) Sayyid ‘Abdu’l Sadiq bin Sayyid as-Sadiq al-Sanussi.
      • (1) Sayyida Ruhiyya binti Sayyid as-Sadiq al-Sanussi. b. at Benghazi, Cyrenaica, 1944 (d/o Ruqayya).
    • xii) Sayyid Muhammad Mansur bin Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1923 (s/o Salma al-Tariqiyya). He had issue, three sons:
      • (1) Sayyid Muhammad Abid bin Sayyid Muhammad Mansur al-Sanussi.
      • (2) Sayyid ‘Abdu’l Munim bin Sayyid Muhammad Mansur al-Sanussi.
      • (3) Sayyid Idris bin Sayyid Muhammad Mansur al-Sanussi.
    • xiii) Sayyid Ibrahim bin Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi. b. at Fort Lamy, Chad, 1929 (s/o Salma al-Tariqiyya). He had issue, three sons:
      • (1) Sayyid ‘Abdu’llah bin Sayyid Ibrahim al-Sanussi.
      • (2) Sayyid Mansur bin Sayyid Ibrahim al-Sanussi.
      • (3) Sayyid ‘Abdu’l Mutalib bin Sayyid Ibrahim al-Sanussi.
    • i) Sayyida Fatima binti Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1896 (d/o Fatima al-Ashhab). m. at Kufra, 1921, her first cousin, Sayyid Muhammad Shams ud-din bin Sayyid ‘Ali al-Khattab al-Sanussi (b. at Kufra, 1908), eldest son of her uncle, Sayyid ‘Ali al-Khatabi Pasha bin Sayyid Muhammad as-Sharif al-Sanussi. She d.s.p. at Kufra, 1921 - see below.
    • ii) Sayyida Nafisa binti Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1915 (d/o Radyana).
    • iii) Sayyida Raqayya binti Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1915 (d/o Umm Bashayir).
    • iv) Sayyida Aisha binti Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1915 (d/o Fatima al-Ashhab).
    • v) Sayyida Saddiqa binti Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1920 (d/o Taj ul-Mulk).
    • vi) Sayyida Asma binti Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1921 (d/o Halima al-Tariqiyya).
    • vii) Sayyida Hasina binti Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1924 (d/o Maimuna).
    • viii) Sayyida Safiyya binti Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1924 (d/o Salma al-Tariqiyya).
    • ix) Sayyida Radiyya binti Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi. b. at Atia, Chad, 1923 (d/o Salma al-Tariqiyya).
  • c) Sayyid ‘Ali al-Khatabi Pasha bin Sayyid Muhammad as-Sharif al-Sanussi. b. at Jaghbub, July/August 1888 (s/o Fatima al-Mukhtar). Granted the title of Pasha-wiya, 1918. m. (first) at Kufra, 1904, Ruqayya, daughter of Muhammad al-Mahjub. m. (second) at Kufra, 1908, Khadija, daughter of Muhammad al-Madani. m. (third) at Kufra, 1910 (div. 1912), Fatima, daughter of Muhammad ‘Abdu’l Maula. m. (fourth) at Kufra, 1913, Hawa, a lady from Wadai. He d. at al-Taj, Kufra, February/March 1918, having had issue two sons and one daughter:
    • i) Sayyid Muhammad Shams ud-din bin Sayyid ‘Ali al-Khattab al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1908 (s/o Ruqayya). Representative of the Amir Idris at Kufra 1928-1930. m. (first) at Kufra, 1921, his first cousin, Sayyida Fatima binti Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi (b. at Kufra, 1896; d.s.p. at Kufra, 1921), eldest daughter of his uncle, Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid Pasha, by his first wife, Fatima, daughter of Ahmad bin Idris al-Ashhab. m. (second) at Kufra, 1924, his cousin, Sayyida Zainab binti Sayyid Ahmad as-Sharif al-Sanussi (b. at Kufra, 1906), third daughter of his uncle, Sayyid Ahmad as-Sharif bin Sayyid Muhammad as-Sharif al-Sanussi, 3^rd Grand Sanussi, by his fifth wife, Hawa al-Quraniyya II. m. (third) at Mersa Matruh, 1937, his cousin, Sayyida Fatima binti Sayyid Ahmad as-Sharif al-Sanussi (b. at Jaghbub, 1899), eldest daughter of his uncle, Field Marshal H.H. Sayyid Ahmad as-Sharif Pasha bin Sayyid Muhammad as-Sharif al-Sanussi, 3^rd Grand Sanussi, by his first wife, Masuda, a Sudanese lady. He had issue, one son and three daughters:
      • (1) Sayyid al-Sanussi bin Sayyid Muhammad Shams ud-din al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1925 (s/o Sayyida Zainab).
      • (1) Sayyida Fadila binti Sayyid Muhammad Shams ud-din al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1926 (d/o Sayyida Zainab).
      • (2) Sayyida Atika binti Sayyid Muhammad Shams ud-din al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1929 (d/o Sayyida Zainab).
      • (3) Sayyida Zubaida binti Sayyid Muhammad Shams ud-din al-Sanussi. b. at Mersa Matruh, 1933 (d/o Sayyida Zainab).
    • ii) Sayyid Muhammad al-Hasan bin Sayyid ‘Ali al-Khattab al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1913 (s/o Khadija). m. Khadija, daughter of Muhammad Salih al-Biskri. He had issue, four sons and four daughters:
      • (1) Sayyid ‘Ali bin Sayyid Muhammad al-Hasan al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1929.
      • (2) Sayyid as-Sharif bin Sayyid Muhammad al-Hasan al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1930.
      • (3) Sayyid Muhammad Zahir bin Sayyid Muhammad al-Hasan al-Sanussi. b. February 1945.
      • (4) Sayyid Ahmad bin Sayyid Muhammad al-Hasan al-Sanussi.
      • (1) Sayyida Hubaiba binti Sayyid Muhammad al-Hasan al-Sanussi. b. at Benghazi, Cyrenaica, 1931.
      • (2) Sayyida Aisha binti Sayyid Muhammad al-Hasan al-Sanussi. b. at Benghazi, Cyrenaica, 1938.
      • (3) Sayyida Fatima binti Sayyid Muhammad al-Hasan al-Sanussi. b. at Benghazi, Cyrenaica, 1941.
      • (4) Sayyida Bahiyya binti Sayyid Muhammad al-Hasan al-Sanussi. b. at Abu Rawwah, 1942
    • i) Sayyida Umama binti Sayyid ‘Ali al-Khattab al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1915 (s/o Ruqayya).
  • d) Sayyid Muhammad Hilal Pasha bin Sayyid Muhammad as-Sharif al-Sanussi. b. at Jaghbub, June/July 1894 (s/o Aisha). Granted the title of Pasha-wiya, 1918. m. (first) at Kufra, 1906 (div. 1919), Fatima (d. at Umm Rukhba, 1933), daughter of his maternal uncle, Muhammad bin Muhammad al-Sharaf al-Khattabi. m. (second) at Kufra, 1910, Ashta (d. at Kufra, 1916), a lady from Darfur. m. (third) at Kufra, 1912 (div. 1920) Zainab (d.s.p. at Derna, 1932), daughter of Tuwati bin Husain al-Ghariani. m. (fourth) at Kufra, 1914 (div. at Benghazi, Cyrenaica, 1926) Khadija (d.s.p. at Umm Rukhba, 1935), daughter of Ahmad bin Muhammad al-Sharif. m. (fifth) at Barqa, 1915 (div. 1915) Salma (m. second, 1931, Muftah al-Ashhab), daughter of Abu Bakar al-Abbar. m. (sixth) at Benghazi, Cyrenaica, 1917 (div. 1917) Fatima (m. second, 1930, Qataish bin al-Hadad, who d. 1942; m. third, Muhammad al-Yaqubi al-Fituri), daughter of Hamaida al-Yaquibi al-Fituri. m. (seventh) at Ajadabiya, 1922, his cousin, Sayyida Fatima al-Hasaniyya binti Sayyid Muhammad al-Mahdi al-Sanussi (b. at Kufra, 1902; d. at Tarabulus, 20^th October 1966), youngest daughter of his uncle, Sayyid Muhammad al-Mahdi bin Sayyid Muhammad al-Sanussi, 2nd Grand Sanussi, by his wife, Khadija Bu Saif. m. (eighth) at Akrama, 1925 (div. 1929) Zuhra (d.s.p. at Umm Rukhba, 1931), daughter of al-Hashimi al-Akrami. He d. at Alexandria, Egypt, December 1929, having had issue, two sons and three daughters:
    • i) Sayyid Azz ud-din bin Sayyid Muhammad Hilal al-Sanussi. b. at Jaghbub, 1923 (s/o Sayyida Fatima al-Hasaniyya).
    • ii) Sayyid Muhammad al-Mahdi bin Sayyid Muhammad Hilal al-Sanussi. b. at Jaghbub, 1924 (s/o Sayyida Fatima al-Hasaniyya). He has issue, one son:
      • (1) Sayyid Muhammad Hilal bin Sayyid al-Mahdi al-Sanussi.
    • i) Sayyida Fatima binti Sayyid Muhammad Hilal al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1907 (d/o Fatima al-Sharaf). m. at Mersa Matruh, 1936, her cousin, Sayyid Muhammad al-Sanussi bin Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi (b. at Kufra, 1902), second son of her uncle, Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid Pasha, by his first wife, Fatima, daughter of Ahmad bin Idris al-Ashhab. She d.s.p. at Alexandria, 1938 - see above.
    • ii) Sayyida Khadija binti Sayyid Muhammad Hilal al-Sanussi. b. at Kufra, 1909 (d/o Fatima al-Sharif). She d. unm. at Mersa Matruh, 1931.
    • iii) Sayyida Aisha binti Sayyid Muhammad Hilal al-Sanussi (d/o Ashta). She d. young.
  • e) Major-General Sayyid Muhammad Safi ud-din Pasha bin Sayyid Muhammad as-Sharif al-Sanussi. b. at Jaghbub, 10^th August 1895 (s/o Khadija al-Mahjub). Granted the title of Pasha-wiya, 1918. Maj-Gen. Imperial Ottoman Army, served in the Great War. Rcvd: the Imperial Orders of the Osmans (Nishan-i-Osmanieh) 2^nd class (1918) and Nobility (Nishan-i-Majidieh) 2^nd class of Turkey. m. (first) at al-Taj, Kufra, 1908 (div. 1917) Aisha (m. second, Ibrahim bin al-Arabi al-Ghumairi; d. at al-Aqaila, 1930), daughter of Bu Saif bi Muqarrib. m. (second) at al-Taj, Kufra, 1913 (div. at Ajababiya, 1922) Fatima, daughter of Haji Ibrahim Sahhad. m. (third) in the French Sudan, 1914 (div. at Jalu, 1924), Fatima (m. second, Hamaida bin Ahmad al-Rifai; d. at Abu Rawwash, 1941), daughter of Abu Bakar Qabbad. m. (fourth) at Ajaidabiya, 1915, Salama (d. at Mersa Matruh, 1930), a lady from the Wadai. m. (fifth) at Ajaidabiya, 1916 (div. 1923) Khadija (m. second, Musa al-Tariqi; d. at al-Aqaila, 1930). m. (sixth) at at Kufra, 1916, Maryam (d. at Mersa Matruh, 1935), a Sudanese lady. m. (seventh) at Ajaidabiya, 1917 (div. 1925), Hawa al-Quraniyya (d. at Mersa Matruh, 1935). m. (eighth) at Ajadabiya, 1918, Fadila (d. 1919), a lady from the Wadai. m. (ninth) at Ajadabiya, 1918 (div. 1934) Amina (b. ca. 1892), daughter of ‘Abdu’llah, of the Muba tribe. m. (tenth) at Ajadabiya, 1920, his cousin Sayyida Nafisa binti Sayyid Muhammad al-Mahdi al-Sanussi, fourth daughter of Sayyid Muhammad al-Mahdi bin Sayyid Muhammad al-Sanussi, 2^nd Grand Sanussi, by his first wife, Fatima, daughter of Abu Musa Umran bin Barakat al-Fituri. m. (eleventh) at Ajadabiya, 1921, Fattuma, daughter of ‘Abdu’l Karim, of the al-Mahamid tribe. m. (twelfth) at Ajadabiya, 1922, Amina al-Fallatiyya (d. at Mersa Matruh, 1926). m. (thirteenth) at Jaghbub, 1924, Saida, daughter of ‘Abdu’llah, of the Wadai. m. (fourteenth) at Jaghbub, 1925, Tahaqba al-Tariqiyya (d.s.p. at Bahaira, Egypt, 1942). m. (fifteenth) at Heliopolis, 1933 (div. 1940), Aziza, daughter of Muhammad Bey Shahin. m. (sixteenth) 1940 (div. 1942), Imbaraika, daughter of Jibril, of the Wadai. He d. 21^st October 1967, had issue, twelve sons and five daughters:
    • i) Sayyid Muhammad al-Sharif bin Sayyid Muhammad Safi ud-din al-Sanussi (s/o Hawa al-Quraniyya). He d. young.
    • ii) Sayyid Hasan bin Sayyid Muhammad Safi ud-din al-Sanussi (s/o Hawa al-Quraniyya). He d. young.
    • iii) Sayyid Mamun bin Sayyid Muhammad Safi ud-din al-Sanussi (s/o Fadila). He d. young.
    • iv) Sayyid ‘Ali bin Sayyid Muhammad Safi ud-din al-Sanussi. b. at Ajadabiya, 1920 (s/o Amina). Banished 15^th October 1954.
    • v) Sayyid Ahmad al-Rida bin Sayyid Muhammad Safi ud-din al-Sanussi. b. at Ajadabiya, 1922 (s/o Amina). Banished 15/10/1954. He had issue, six sons:
      • (1) Sayyid Mishal bin Sayyif al-Rida al-Sanussi.
      • (2) Sayyid Yusri bin Sayyif al-Rida al-Sanussi.
      • (3) Sayyid Sharif bin Sayyif al-Rida al-Sanussi.
      • (4) Sayyid Faiq bin Sayyif al-Rida al-Sanussi.
      • (5) Sayyid Talal bin Sayyif al-Rida al-Sanussi.
      • (6) Sayyid Saud bin Sayyif al-Rida al-Sanussi.
    • vi) Sayyid Ahmad Mansur bin Sayyid Muhammad Safi ud-din al-Sanussi. b. at Ajadabiya, 1922 (s/o Fatima Qabbad). He had issue, one son:
    • (1) Sayyid Saleh bin Sayyid Mansur al-Sanussi.
    • vii) Sayyid Ahmad Fakhr ud-din bin Sayyid Muhammad Safi ud-din al-Sanussi [Fakhri]. b. at Jaghbub, 25^th February 1925 (s/o Nafisa). m. (first) ... m. (second) Sayyida Fathia Ashour bint Ismail (d. 2008). He d. 27^th September 2006, having had issue, one son by his first and four sons and three daughters by his second wife:
    • (1) Sayyid Faisal bin Sayyid Ahmad Fakhr ud-din al-Sanussi (s/o the first wife).
    • (2) Sayyid ‘Ala bin Sayyid Ahmad Fakhr ud-din al-Sanussi (s/o Fathia).
    • (3) Sayyid Khalid bin Sayyid Ahmad Fakhr ud-din al-Sanussi (s/o Fathia).
    • (4) Sayyid Walid bin Sayyid Ahmad Fakhr ud-din al-Sanussi (s/o Fathia).
    • (5) Sayyid Hisham bin Sayyid Ahmad Fakhr ud-din al-Sanussi (s/o Fathia).
    • (1) Sayyida Eman bint Sayyid Ahmad Fakhr ud-din al-Sanussi (d/o Fathia).
    • (2) Sayyida Shadia bint Sayyid Ahmad Fakhr ud-din al-Sanussi (d/o Fathia).
    • (3) Sayyida Sana bint Sayyid Ahmad Fakhr ud-din al-Sanussi (d/o Fathia). m. Sayyid Gabrial al-Haddad. She d. 1984, having had issue, two sons (both raised by their maternal grandparents).
    • viii) Sayyid Ahmad Kamal bin Sayyid Muhammad Safi ud-din al-Sanussi. b. at Mersa Matruh, 1926 (s/o Saida).
    • ix) Sayyid Muhammad al-Sanussi bin Sayyid Muhammad Safi ud-din al-Sanussi. b. in Egypt, 1927 (s/o Imbaraika).
    • x) Sayyid Adil bin Sayyid Muhammad Safi ud-din al-Sanussi.
    • xi) Sayyid amin bin Sayyid Muhammad Safi ud-din al-Sanussi.
    • xii) Sayyid Sabri bin Sayyid Muhammad Safi ud-din al-Sanussi.
    • i) Sayyida Fatima al-Nasira binti Sayyid Muhammad Safi ud-din al-Sanussi. b. at Tarhuna, 1916 (s/o Salama). m. her cousin, Sayyid Muhammad ‘Abdu’l Mutalib bin Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi (b. at Kufra, 1908), fifth son of Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid Pasha, by his third wife, Zahra al-Quraniyya. She had issue, one son - see above.
    • ii) Sayyida Radiyya binti Sayyid Muhammad Safi ud-din al-Sanussi. b. at Ajadabiya, 1922 (s/o Khadija). m. her cousin, Sayyid Muhammad Tahir bin Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid al-Sanussi (b. at Kufra, 1919), ninth son of Sayyid Muhammad al-‘Abid Pasha, by his fifth wife, Umm Bashayir - see above.
    • iii) Sayyida Safiyya binti Sayyid Muhammad Safi ud-din al-Sanussi. b. between Jaghbub and Siwa, 1924.
    • iv) Sayyida Latifa binti Sayyid Muhammad Safi ud-din al-Sanussi. b. at Mersa Matruh, 1925 (d/o Amina al-Fallatiyya).
    • v) Sayyida Laila binti Sayyid Muhammad Safi ud-din al-Sanussi. b. at Alexandria, Egypt, 1935.
  • a) Sayyida Aisha binti Sayyid Muhammad al-Sharif al-Sanussi. b. at Jaghbub, 1873 (d/o Fatima as-Ashhab). m. at al-Jauf, Kufra, 1896/1897, her first cousin, H.M. Idris I, King of the United Kingdom of Libya, GBE (b. at Jaghbub, 12^th March 1889; d. at the Soltan Palace, Dokki, Cairo, 25^th May 1983 (bur. al-Bakie graveyard, Medina), sixth son of her uncle, Sayyid Muhammad al-Mahdi bin Sayyid Muhammad al-Sanussi, 2^nd Grand Sanussi, by his wife, Aisha, daughter of Ahmad bin ‘Ali Abu Saif, of Syrte. She d. at Kufra, 1907 (or 1905), having had issue, an only son - see below.
  • b) Sayyida Fatima al-Sunniyya binti Sayyid Muhammad al-Sharif al-Sanussi. b. at Jaghbub, 1876 (d/o Khadija al-Fituri). m. at al-Jauf, Kufra, 1896/1897 (div. at Ajadabiya, 1921), her first cousin, H.R.H. Sayyid Muhammad al-Rida Pasha, Crown Prince of Libya (b. at Jaghbub, 18^th April 1890; d. suddenly at Tripoli, 29^th July 1955), seventh son of her uncle, Sayyid Muhammad al-Mahdi bin Sayyid Muhammad al-Sanussi, 2^nd Grand Sanussi, by his wife, Fatima, daughter of Muhammad ‘Ali bin Ibrahim al-Ghumari, of the ‘Umran family of Jebel al-Akhdar. She d. at Medina, 1940, having had issue, one daughter - see below.
• 4) Sayyid Muhammad ‘Ali bin Sayyid Muhammad al-Sanussi. b. ca. 1851 (s/o Fatima al-Biskri). He d. 1853.

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