Najahids
The Najahids (also: Najahiden ; Arabic بنو نجاح, DMG Banū Naǧāḥ ) was a black African slave dynasty of Ethiopian Mameluks in the Tihama in western Yemen (1021-1156).
The dynasty was founded in early 1021 by Nadschah (Nadschāḥ), a Mameluke Wazir of Ziyādiden in Zabid founded, which was able to prevail against its competitors and brother Nafis. A confirmation certificate is said to have been issued by the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad . He soon ruled the Tihama on the Red Sea and was able to temporarily extend his control to Sanaa in the highlands. Here, however, he clashed with the emerging Sulaihids under Ali as-Sulaihi . Fierce fighting broke out, which only ended with the poisoning of Najahs (1060) in al-Kadrā and the expulsion of the Najahids from Zabid.
However, Najah's descendants murdered Ali al-Sulaihi in 1067. They were able to re-establish the najahid dynasty in Zabid later. In the period that followed, until 1156 they successfully asserted themselves against attacks by the Sulaihids . The last ruler of the Najahids was murdered by the Mahdids . With this, this slave dynasty disappeared from history.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The Middle East and Europe: encounters and exchanges by GJH van Gelder, Ed de Moor
- ↑ G. Rex Smith Political History of Islamic Yemen up to the First Turkish Invasion, pp. 136–154 (138)
literature
- G. Rex Smith Political history of Islamic Yemen up to the first Turkish invasion of Werner Daum Yemen , Umschau-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main, ISBN 3-7016-2251-5