Al-Mu'ayyad Yahya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Al-Mu'ayyad Yahya

Imam of Yemen

Date of Birth: 15-Oct-1270

Place of Birth: Sana'a, Yemen

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: writer, theologian, literary

Nationality: Yemen

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Al-Mu'ayyad Yahya

  • Al-Mu'ayyad Yahya (October 15, 1270 – 1346) was an imam of the Zaidi state in Yemen whose tenure of the imamate lasted from 1328 to 1346. Yahya bin Hamza was a member of the Zaidi elite, but not of the dynasty of the Rassids that usually provided imams.
  • He was a 13th-generation descendant of imam Ali ar-Ridha (d.
  • 818).
  • The old Yemeni imam al-Mahdi Muhammad bin al-Mutahhar had conquered large highland territories from the Rasulid Dynasty, including the commercially and politically important city San'a.
  • After his demise in 1328, no less than four claimants for the imamate surfaced.
  • Apart from Yahya, these included an-Nasir Ali bin Salah, Ahmad bin Ali al-Fathi, and the deceased imam's son al-Wathiq al-Mutahhar.
  • Yahya emerged as the supreme figure and quickly secured San'a.
  • With the city as his base, he waged war in the following years against Taiyabi Ismaili groups of the Hamdan tribe in the Wadi Dahr.
  • The Rasulids were in no position to take back their lost lands in the Yemeni highland, leaving the Zaidi positions unthreatened.
  • The imam was a prominent scholar who authored Al-Intisar, the most comprehensive Zaydiyyah law book, and Ad-Da'wa al-amma, a work encouraging struggle for the true faith.
  • It was popularly said that the number of pages he wrote were equal to the days he lived.
  • Al-Mu'ayyad Yahya died in 1346 (or, in another account, 1349), and was buried in Dhamar.
  • On his death, San'a was seized by two Zaidi brothers, Ibrahim bin Abdallah and Da'ud bin Abdallah, who ruled as emirs and did not claim the imam title.
  • Their family would control San'a until 1381.

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