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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Mahmud ibn Muhammad al-Himyari seized the city of Mirbat and its surroundings in the lands of Hadramawt ¹.

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Occurred at: Mirbat
Had participant: Mahmud al-Himyari of Mirbat

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Mahmud al-Himyari of Mirbat· Mirbat

Sources

al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 293

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Mahmud al-Himyari of Mirbat

From boat-hirer to lord of the Dhofar coast — Mahmud al-Himyari served as vizier to Mirbat's ruler, inherited the city by popular affection for his generosity, and in 619 rebuilt it as the walled al-Ahmadiyya beside a great freshwater spring; a lavish patron of poets.