-
after a
devastating attack by the Yu'firids.
Prior to the
ascendance of
Najahids, the south-western
coast of
Yemen and
Saudi Arabia (Tihama) was dominated...
- had been
captured by the
Najahids, and the
Sulayhid armies regained much territory. He
could certainly not
prevent the
Najahids from
keeping outside his...
- by a
succession of
families which included the
Ziyadids (818–1018), the
Najahids (1022–1158), the
Egyptian Ayyubids (1174–1229) and the
Turkoman Rasulids...
- Al-Sulayhi
conquered Zabid and
killed its
ruler Al-Najah,
founder of the
Najahid dynasty. His sons were
forced to flee to Dahlak.
Hadhramaut fell into Sulayhid...
-
between the
Ziyadids and the
Najahids, as the
latter had fled to
there in 1061.
Battles were
fought until 1086, when the
Najahids managed to
restore their...
- with the
Najahids, an
Ethiopian ex-slave
dynasty based in Zabid.
Historian Ibn
Khalikan states al-Sulayhi sent a
female slave to the
Najahid leader Abu...
-
number of
Yemeni dynasties: the Sulayhids,
Hamdanid sultans, R****ids,
Najahids,
Zurayids and Mahdids. The
chronicles give
relatively little information...
- but he was ********inated by his prin****l
local rivals, the Zabid-based
Najahids.
Following his death, al-Sulayhi's daughter, Arwa al-Sulayhi, inherited...
-
Rashidun Caliphate Umayyad Caliphate Abbasid Caliphate Ziyadid dynasty Najahid dynasty Sulayhid dynasty Ayyubid dynasty Rasulid dynasty Modern history...
- made a move
against the
Najahid leader Sa'id al-Ahwal,
leading to "the
mother of all battles", as
Umara described it. The
Najahids were devastated, and Arwa...
