Al-Mu'ayyad Abbas
Al-Mu'ayyad Abbas (died 1880) was an
Zaidi imamate
of Yemen between 1597 and 1962.
Abbas bin Abd ar-Rahman was a scholar who descended from Imam Sa'dah far to the north, where al-Mansur Ahmad bin Hashim posed as imam. Al-Mansur Ahmad besieged San'a in 1850. However, the elite of San'a chose Abbas as their imam, under the name al-Mu'ayyad Abbas (June 1850). The new imam appointed Muhammad ash-Shawkani's son Ahmad as his qadi. His soldiers and emirs held out for a while against the attackers in the qasr (fortress) of the city. Finally he had to surrender to al-Mansur Ahmad and was imprisoned. The victor, however, could only maintain his position in San'a for three months before he was forced to flee to the Arhab tribe.[3] In the following year 1851, the contenders for the Zaidi imamate agreed to appoint al-Hadi Ghalib.[4] Al-Mu'ayyad Abbas withdrew to a life of scholarship and teaching until his demise in 1880.[5]
See also
References
- ^ R.W. Stookey, Yemen; The Politics of the Yemen Arab Republic. Boulder 1978, p. 144. The filiation is al-Mutawakkil Isma'il - Ahmad - al-Qasim -al-Husayn - Muhammad - Abd ar-Rahman - Abbas.
- ^ Vincent Steven Wilhite, Guerilla War, Counterinsurgency, and State Formation in Ottoman Yemen, PhD Thesis, Ohio State Universityb2003, p. 98.
- ^ R.B. Serjeant & R. Lewcock, San'a'; An Arabian Islamic City. London 1983. p. 90.
- ^ Caesar E. Farah, The Sultan's Yemen; Nineteenth-Century Challenges to Ottoman Rule. London 2002, p. 58.
- ^ Zaidi biographies, in http://www.al-aalam.com/personinfo.asp?pid=426 Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine (in Arabic).