Sayf Abdallah ibn Ahmad al-Wazir

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Sayf Abdallah ibn Ahmad al-Wazir ( Arabic سيف عبد الله بن أحمد الوزير, DMG Sayf ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Wazīr , * 1889  ; executed on April 8, 1948 in Hogga ) was a Yemeni putschist and self-proclaimed King of Yemen (February 17 to March 13, 1948). Al-Wazir previously served as commander of the Yemeni armed forces in the 1920s and as governor of Ḏamār and al-Ḥudaida in the 1930s . He was also an Islamic legal scholar.

King 1948

After the assassination of King Yahya Muhammad Hamid ad-Din on February 17, 1948, he declared himself imam and king. In subsequent battles he was defeated and deposed on March 13 by Yahya's son Ahmad ibn Yahya . Two of his sons died during the fighting. On April 8, 1948, Ahmad had him executed.

family

The Hessian Minister of Economic Affairs Tarek Al-Wazir is his great-nephew.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Anzi, Menashe and Karin Hünefeld: "Ṣanʿāʾ, Jerusalem and New York: Imām Yaḥyā Ḥamīd ad-Dīn (1869-1948) and Yemeni-Jewish Migration from Palestine to the United States". In: David Hollenberg et al. (Ed.): The Yemeni Manuscript Tradition . Leiden: Brill. 2015. p. 265f.
  2. ↑ Von Bruck, Gabriele: Islam, Memory, and Morality in Yemen: Ruling Families in Transition . London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2005, p. 261.
  3. ^ Douglas, J. Leigh: The Free Yemeni Movement 1935–1962. Beirut: The American University of Beirut. 1987. pp. 22f., 50.
  4. ↑ Tarek and the “Schrecksppenst” , Tagesspiegel online, November 20, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Sayf Abdallah ibn Ahmad al-Wazir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yemeni Imam and King of Yemen
DATE OF BIRTH 1912
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1948
Place of death Hogga