Ciyadids
The Ziyadids (also: Ziyaditen ; Arabic بنو زياد, DMG Banu Ziyad ) were a Muslim dynasty in western Yemen ( 818 - 1018 ) (?).
There is no reliable information about the end of the dynasty. What is certain is that the year of death of the last detectable Ziyadid, a certain Abū l-Jaish , was 981 .
With the relocation of the capital of the Caliphate to Baghdad , Yemen became a distant fringe province for the caliphs . The growing weakness of Abbasid rule took advantage of the Yemeni governor and namesake of the dynasty, Muhammad ibn Ziyad , around 825 and founded an independent empire in the Tihama on the Red Sea . The capital of his rule was Zabid .
Culminated the empire under the reign of Ishaq ibn Ibrahim ( 904 - 981 ). This founded u. a. the University of Zabid , which was an important teaching facility in the Muslim world in the Middle Ages and was not closed until the 20th century.
Individual evidence
- ^ G. Rex Smith: Political history of Islamic Yemen up to the first Turkish invasion. Pp. 136–154, here: 137.
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.