3 sentences with “illegitimate”

Sargon himself was born an illegitimate son and was, at one point, a royal gardener who worked his way into the palace, eventually seizing power in a coup d'état.

What they could not do, however, was to destroy the Shia, despite the death of Ali. Shia Muslims, who represented about 10% of the Ummah's population (then and now), considered Umayyad rule fundamentally illegitimate, rejecting the very idea of a caliphate and arguing instead that the faithful should be led by an imam: a direct biological and spiritual descendant of Muhammad's family.

This is another curse of slavery - concubinage and illegitimate liaisons - which is alarmingly carried out in the far South. A poor slave living near his wife is allowed to visit her but very rarely, and other men, both white and coloured, cohabit with her. It is undoubtedly the worst place for incest and bigamy in the world. It does not occur to a white man to put a coloured man to take the front rank [first rank in field work], and play the same sport with the coloured man's wife at the same time.