The Yemeni Hamdanids (Arabic: الهمدانيون) was a series of three families descended from the Arab Banū Hamdān tribe, who ruled in northern Yemen between...

Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to the north, Oman to the northeast...

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the Isma'ili-adhering Yemeni ruling class well into the 12th century, until the fall of the last Sulayhid dynasty, Hamdanids (Yemen) and Zurayids rump state...

of Yemen from 1067 to 1138. As a result of the Sulayhid departure, the Hamdanid dynasty took control of Sanaʽa. Like the Sulayhids, the Hamdanids were...

descended from the Hamdanids. The first Isma'ili missionaries, Ibn Hawshab and Ali ibn al-Fadl al-Jayshani, already appeared in Yemen in 881, thirty years...

The Houthi tribe (Arabic: قبيلة الحوثي) is a Hamdanid Arab tribe that centralizes in northern Yemen. The tribe is branched from Banu Hamdan tribe. They...

The history of Yemen describes the cultures, events, and peoples of what is one of the oldest centers of civilization in the Near East. Its relatively...

Hamadan (disambiguation) Hamdan, a given name and surname Hamdanid dynasty, Syria Hamdanids (Yemen) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...

Taiyabi Ismaili. The Yemeni Hamdanids were a series of three families descended from the Arab Banū Hamdān tribe, who ruled in northern Yemen between 1099 and...

under the rule of Sultan Ali b. Hatim al-Yami of the Hamdan tribe. See Hamdanids (Yemen) for further information. Perceiving a threat to his own sovereignty...

the Isma'ili Hamdanid dynasty at Sanaa at the turn of the 12th century, in rivalry to the Sulayhids. From the 12th century on, the Hamdanids began to shift...

were pushed back by the sultan of San'a, Hamid ad-Dawlah Hatim. See Hamdanids (Yemen) for further information. However, in 1150 the imam retaliated. Hamid...

(Hurratul-Malika) instituted the Da'i al-Mutlaq to run the da'wah from Yemen in the name of Imām Taiyab abi al-Qasim. This article gives short history...

the Hamdanid dynasty (945–967) Mu'izz al-Daula – ruler of the Buyid dynasty (945–967) Abu 'Abdullah al-Shi'i – a Da'i for the Isma'ilis in Yemen and North...

ibn Mūsā aṣ-Ṣulayḥī), (c. 1048 – c. 1138) was a long-reigning ruler of Yemen, firstly as the co-ruler of her first two husbands and then as sole ruler...

it to the Ayyubids and left Yemen for Abyssinia. Further north, Hafizi Isma'ilism was also adopted by some of the Hamdanids of Sana'a. Himas ibn al-Qubayb...

توران شاه بن أيوب) (died 27 June 1180) was the Ayyubid emir (prince) of Yemen (1174–1176), Damascus (1176–1179), Baalbek (1178–1179) and finally Alexandria...

twice. The Hamdanids were succeeded in Mosul by another Shia dynasty, the Uqaylids who ruled roughly the same territory as the Hamdanids from 990 to...

died in 996, while preparing a major campaign against the Byzantines and Hamdanids. He was succeeded by his eleven-year-old son, al-Hakim (r. 996–1021)....

Nevertheless, the Fatimids benefited from the weakness of the Hamdanids, as many Hamdanid supporters began entering Fatimid service. For example, Raja...

Yemen, the hitherto pro-Fatimid queen Arwa sided with the Tayyibis and broke off relations with Cairo, while the regional dynasties of the Hamdanids and...

the Hamdanid sultans, the Zurayids and the Sulaymanids, the fourth Yemeni dynasty that was superseded by the Ayyubids. Robert W. Stookey, Yemen; The...

dynasty based in Yemen in the time between 1083 and 1174. The centre of its power was Aden. The Zurayids suffered the same fate as the Hamdanid sultans, the...

primarily between the Turks under Nasir al-Dawla ibn Hamdan, a scion of the Hamdanids of Aleppo, and Black African troops, while the Berbers shifted alliance...

several rulers such as the Hamdanids, Saffarids, Shahinids, Hasanwayhids and even other lesser rulers who controlled Yemen, including its surrounding...

provinces lost to local dynasts, its finances in ruin, and warlords—the Hamdanids of Mosul, the Baridis of Basra, the Buyids of western Iran, as well as...

Turan-Shah drove out the remaining Hamdanid rulers of Sana'a, conquering the mountainous city in 1175. With the conquest of Yemen, the Ayyubids developed a coastal...

early work comprises poems in the classical qaṣīda form in praise of the Hamdanids and their deeds—the 225-line Ḥamdāniyyah is perhaps the most notable—and...

his honorific of Manṣūr al-Yaman (Arabic: منصور اليمن, lit. 'Conqueror of Yemen'), was a senior Isma'ili missionary (dāʿī) from the environs of Kufa. In...