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The Qasimid State (Arabic: الدولة القاسمية), also known as the Zaidi Imamate, was a Zaidi-ruled independent state in the Greater Yemen region, which was founded by Imam al-Mansur al-Qasim in 1597, absorbed much of the Ottoman-ruled Yemen Eyalet by 1628, and then completely expelled the Ottomans from Yemen by 1638.
Yahya Sharaf ad-Din bin Shams ad-Din bin Ahmad was a grandson of the Imam al-Mahdi Ahmad bin Yahya (d. 1436) and was born in north-western Yemen. He spent several years in study to become a mujtahid (a man of Zaidi religious learning) and then proclaimed his da'wa (call for the imamate) in September 1506.
Their imamate endured under varying circumstances until the end of the North Yemen civil war in 1970, following the republican revolution in 1962. Zaidi theology differs from Isma'ilism and Twelver Shi'ism by stressing the presence of an active and visible imam as leader. The imam was expected to be knowledgeable in religious scholarship, and ...
Under Sinan Pasha the Ottomans led an attack into the Zaidi Imamate after the Zaidis under Mutahhar kicked the Ottomans to only Zabid. Al Qahirah in Ta'izz would fall within 7 weeks, including the city itself Jabal Al Aghbar in Ash Shamayatayn District were attacked by Ottomans and Zaidi defenders were routed in 29 April 1569 in a battle, shortly afterwards the Ottomans took control of Aden on ...
Likewise, any moral transgressions or loss of the qualifying attributes rendered the legitimacy of the imamate void. [12] The historian Najam Haider sums up the Zaydi imamate as follows: "a qualified candidate earned followers through his scholarly and personal qualities and seized power through his military prowess. The ideal Zaydī Imām was ...
According to the later Zaydi sources, Yahya ibn al-Husayn was born in Medina in 859. However, it appears that he was actually born at a village (likely modern al-Dur or Dur Abi al-Qasim, some 57 kilometres (35 mi) southwest of Medina) near the wadi al-Rass, where his grandfather, al-Qasim "al-Rassi", had settled after bringing his family over from Egypt around 827. [1]
Zaidi Imamate or Yemeni Zaidi State, kingdom in Yemen (1597–1849) Al-Zaidi, Arab descendants of Zayd ibn Ali; Zaidi Wasitis, people with the surname Zaidi, South Asian descendants of Zayd ibn Ali, from Wasit, Iraq, followers of Twelver or Athnā‘ashariyyah (Ja'fari jurisprudence) Zaidi Al Wasti, another surname found among the same people
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