Sulayhid dynasty
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The Sulayhid dynasty was founded in the northern highlands of Yemen around 1040.
Establishment
January 1041: The Sulayhid dynasty was founded in the northern highlands around 1040.
Chronology
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1. Events
January 1063: The Ma'nids of Aden were defeated by the Sulayhids in 1062 and forced to pay tribute.
January 1063: Hadramawt fell into Sulayhid hands after their capture of Aden in 1062.
January 1063: The first Sulayhid ruler conquered the whole of Yemen in 1062, and proceeded northwards to occupy the Hejaz.
January 1064: By 1063, the Sulayhids had subjugated Greater Yemen.
January 1068: Descendants of Najah murdered Ali al-Sulaihi in 1067 and were able to re-establish the Najahideen dynasty in Zabid.
January 1070: The Sulaymanids were a dynasty of Sherifs from the line of al-Ḥasan, whose center of power was in Ḥarāḑ in northern Tihama in present-day Saudi Arabia and reached Yemen.
January 1082: The Sulayhids appointed the Emirs of Mecca.
January 1084: The Zurayids were a Yamite Hamdani dynasty based in Yemen in the time between 1083 and 1174.
January 1099: When the Sulayhid da'i or leader Saba' bin Ahmad died in 1098, control over San'a passed to the powerful tribal leader Hatim bin al-Ghashim al-Mughallasi who took the title sultan.
Disestablishment
January 1139: The last years of queen Arwa's reign are ill-documented. With her death in 1138, there was no-one left of the dynasty, and the Sulayhid era came to an end.
