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Name: Yufirids

Type: Polity

Start: 848 AD

End: 997 AD

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An Islamic Himyarite dynasty that held power in the highlands of Yemen from 847 to 997.

Establishment


  • January 848: A Himyarite clan called the Yufirids established their rule over the highlands from Saada to Taiz.
  • January 848: The Yufirids established an independent state in San'a in 847.
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    1. Events


  • January 898: An imam of the Shi'ite Zaydiyyah sect, al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya, established a power base in the northern highlands in 897. It was the beginning of the Yemeni imamate.

  • January 902: In 901, the Yufirids took control of Sana'a, forcing the ruler Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya to leave the city. Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya was a Zaydi Shia imam who ruled the Zaydi state in Yemen.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 998: The authority of the Yuʿfirids in San'a now vanished.
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