Sulaymanids
The Sulaymanids were a dynasty of Sherif from the line of al-Ḥasan , whose center of power was in Ḥarāḑ in the northern Tihama in what is now Saudi Arabia and came to Yemen . The epoch of their work is not certain in terms of time. It is believed that it was between approx. 1069–1173, intersected by the Fatimid loyal dynasties of the Sulaihids and Zurayids and the Arab dynasty of the Hamdanid sultans and the Mahdids .
Little is known about this dynasty. What is certain, however, is that they exercised a certain rule in the northern (Yemeni) Tihama and were involved in the affairs of the black African slave dynasty of the Najahids . A tributary subordination relationship to these is assumed ( vassalage ).
The Sulaymani army suffered a crushing defeat under Wahhās bin Ghānim against the Mahidid ruler ʿAbd al-Nabī , who at the same time ended the domination of the Najahids in Zabīd and the southern Tihama. Wahhās bin Ghānim fell in 1164. His brother Qāsim allied himself with the Ayyubids under Tūrānshāh against the Najahids in 1173 when Tūrānshāh arrived in Yemen and subjugated the country. The rule of the Sulaymanids was thus effectively ended. The rule of the Mahdids and the Zurayids, who had to give way to the Ayubbids, also ended.
Individual evidence
- ↑ G. Rex Smith Political History of Islamic Yemen up to the First Turkish Invasion, pp. 136–154 (140)
literature
- G. Rex Smith: Political History of Islamic Yemen up to the First Turkish Invasion . In: Werner Daum : Yemen . Umschau-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-7016-2251-5 , pp. 136-154.