Maflahi
| Muflihi Sheikdom مشيخة المفلحي | |||||||||
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| State of the Ad Dali' | |||||||||
| • Type | Sheikhdom | ||||||||
| Historical era | 20th century | ||||||||
• Established | 1850 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1967 | ||||||||
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Muflihi, Muflahi (
Its last sheikh, Kassim Abdulrahaman Al-Muflihi, was deposed in 1967 upon the founding of thePeople's Republic of South Yemen and the area is now part of the Republic of Yemen
.
History
Muflihi was originally one of the five sheikhdoms of Upper Yafa but joined the Federation of South Arabia and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia, as a separate state.[2] Although most of the Al Muflahi family members still reside in Yemen, some members of the family migrated north of the Arabian peninsula in the early 1960s by settling into countries such as
United States of America; in the latter they live predominantly in the Metro Detroit
area.
Sheikhs
- 1850 – 1885 al-Qasim al-Sakkaf
- 1885 – 1920 `Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Qasim al-Sakkaf
- 1920 – 12 August 1967 al-Qasim ibn `Abd al-Rahman
- 1967 – 2000 Nasir ibn al-Sakkaf
- 2000 – Present `Ammar ibn `Abd al-Hamid