Hashid
| Hashid حاشد | |
|---|---|
Arab | |
| Nisba | Al-Hāshidi |
| Location | Yemen |
| Descended from | Jashim ibn Jubran ibn Nawf ibn Tuba'a ibn Zayd ibn Amr ibn Hamdan |
| Parent tribe | Banu Hamdan |
| Branches |
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| Language | Arabic |
| Religion | Islam |
The Hashid (
In recent times, Hashid confederation had for decades been led by the powerful Abushawareb clan. The clan's influence was built on an alliance with the former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who relied on a coalition with the most prominent leader of the Hashid tribal confederation, Sheikh Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar, to take power in 1978.[2] Until his death on 29 December 2007, Sheikh Abdullah served as the Speaker of Parliament and was considered Yemen's second most powerful person after President Saleh (who, along with many others in the government, also is a member of a Hashid tribe).[5]
After Sheikh Abdullah's death, his son
History
Pre-Islamic history
Hashid was already a well known "tribe" (sha`b) since the 1st millennium BCE and it was very frequently mentioned in Sabaic inscriptions. The Hashid, alongside the tribes Humlan and Yarsum, were a part of a tribal confederation called the Sum'ay,
Conversion to Islam
In the year 622,
After the death of Muhammad the Hamdan tribe remained Muslim and didn't join the ridda movement.
After Ali, Power Vacuum in Yemen and the Imam Hadi
The Hamdan tribe remained on the side of Ali, even after the martyrdom of Ali and later his sons. The tribes remained on alliance to Ali but didn't oppose the Ummayas or ally themselves with the other Shias.
At that time Yemen was experiencing a great population movement forming the bulk of the Islamic Expansion mainly settling in southern Iraq. However, the majority of the Hamdan tribe remained in Yemen which later helped the Hashid/Bakil Hamdani tribes become the biggest local key player, benefiting from the departure of the bulk of the most powerful Nomadic Yemeni tribes of that time into North Africa/Spain in Wetsward movements that continued until the 13th century.
By The 10th century the Imam al-Hadi Yahya bin al-Hussain bin al-Qasim (a scion of Imam al-Hasan, grandson of the Prophet) who, at Sa'da, in 893-7 C.E. arrived to the Northern Highlands on invitation from the Hamdan tribe and from that time till present day the
Modern history
Many writers have referred to the Hashid and
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Yemen's tribal confederations", The National by Hugh Naylor, 27 February 2012
- ^ a b c d "Houthi armed groups challenge Yemen power structure", Al-Monitor, 30 April 2014.
- ^ Popular Protest in North African and the Middle East(II): Yemen Between Reform and Revolution
- ^ Paul Dresch, A History of Modern Yemen (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
- ^ "Mourning begins for Yemen speaker", BBC News, 29 December 2007.
- ^ a b "Al-Ahmar clan loses leadership of Hashid in ceasefire deal with Huthis", Middle East Online, 4 February 2014.
- ISBN 9783447036795.
- ^ Andrey Korotayev. Pre-Islamic Yemen. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1996.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2010-03-16.
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- Almsaodi, Abdulaziz. Modern history of Yemen
Bibliography
- ISBN 0-19-922237-1.
External links
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