Hussain Randathani, 'Hadrami Sayyids against Colonialism: the Malabar Page'

Hussain Randathani's study of the Hadrami sayyids and anti-colonial resistance in Malabar; it states that Sayyid Fadl (1240/1824–1318/1901) succeeded his father Sayyid Alawi after the latter's death on 29 January 1844, wrote books and issued fatwas against British rule, among them al-Qawl al-Mukhtar and Saif al-Battar within his Uddat al-Umara wa-l-Hukkam (Egypt, 1856), and that British reports held him responsible for the disturbances.