- ila'l-Haqq Yahya). The
Zaydis on the
Caspian Sea were
forcefully converted to
Twelver Shi'ism in the 16th century. The
Zaydis in
Yemen had
initially lived...
- also a
group called Zaydī Wāsiṭīs who are
Twelvers (see below).
Zaydīs constitute roughly 42–47% of the po****tion of Yemen. The
Zaydīs, Twelvers, and Ismāʿīlīs...
-
centered its
belief system on the
Zaydi branch of Islam, a sect of
Islam almost exclusively present in Yemen.
Zaydis make up
about 25
percent of the po****tion...
- po****tion of
Zaydis, but in some areas,
notably al-Hishwah, al-Zahir,
Shida and Ghamr, ****s make up a
considerable part of the po****tion. The
Zaydis belong...
- religion.
Saada became the
birthplace and
stronghold of the
Zaydi sect in Yemen. Today,
Zaydis remain one of Yemen's most
influential Islamic sects. Saada...
-
several fortresses. The
Ayyubids failed to
capture the
Zaydis stronghold in
northern Yemen. In 1191,
Zaydis of
Shibam ****aban
rebelled and
killed 700 Ayyubid...
-
separated the
Zaydis from the "Imami"
variants of Shi'ism (the
Twelvers and Isma'ilis) who
followed al-Sadiq and his successors. In
Zaydi doctrine, unlike...
-
Zaydis attacked Ottoman officials not
because they were ****s.
Following the
collapse of the
Ottoman Empire, the
divide between Shafi’is and
Zaydis changed...
-
number of Arab Alid dynasties,
espousing the
Zaydi branch of Shia Islam. The
first and most
powerful Zaydi emirate was
established in
Tabaristan in 864...
-
Sadah social class of
North Yemen bears a
common ancestor to the
other Zaydi Hashemite families in the region, all
being descended from
Yahya ibn Husayn...
