Zurayids
The Zurayids , Arabic بنو زريع, DMG Banū Zuraiʿ , are a Fatimid dynasty in Yemen from the period between 1080 and 1173 . Aden was the center of their power .
The Zurayids had to experience the same fate as the Hamdanid sultans , the Sulaymanids and the Mahdids , namely to be replaced by the rule of the Ayyubids and to come to an end.
history
There is insufficient information about the history of the dynasty.
Two brothers, al-Abbās and al-Masūd were installed and shared the business of government. The former died in 1084, which is why his son, Zuray , who gave the dynasty its name, ruled together with his uncle al-Masūd. One with the Sharifen - Dynasty of Sulaymaniden existing arrangement of financing from revenues of the city of Aden was terminated and from 1101 began a more independent than sixty year reign of Zurayiden in the city.
The descendants of the families of the brothers al-Abbās and al-Masūd were in great rivalry with one another, which is why not only did the power constellations change frequently, but expansive efforts kept arising. The balance of power sometimes extended to the Hadramaut . To the north important fortresses and town positions were bought (1152). Including: Dhū Jibla , al-Takar , Ibb and Ḥabb . With the conquest of Aden by the Ayyubids, the rule ended in 1175 with the arrest and execution of the last slave minister, Yāsir bin Bilāl .
Zurayidic influences could flourish here and there during the first two decades of Ayyubid domination until they too finally dried up around 1193.
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.