Ali ibn Mahdi al-Himyari
علي بن مهدي الحميري
Ali ibn Mahdi al-Himyari of al-Uthr on Zabid's coasts; raised in his father's piety, withdrawn in worship, he made the hajj, sat with Iraq's scholars and took preaching from their preachers — a memorizing, eloquent man whose foretellings of his own affairs came true, so the people inclined to him, his sermon-cry 'the time is near' pointing to his own rising; when Umm Fatik of Zabid died in 545 the mountain folk swore to him, his cause flared, he crushed the Najahids and took Zabid in 554 ending their house — and all Tihama, the mountains and Yemen passed from the Sulaymanids' hands into Banu Mahdi's.
At a glance
- Roles
- Ruler · Preacher
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
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موجز
علي بن مهدي الحميري من أهل العثر من سواحل زبيد. يذكر ابن خلدون في «العبر» أنه نشأ على صلاح أبيه، فاعتزل ونسك، وحج ولقي علماء العراق وأخذ الوعظ عن وعاظهم. وكان حافظاً فصيحاً، فمال إليه الناس. 1
قيام دولته
بعد وفاة أم فاتك صاحبة زبيد سنة 545هـ جاءه أهل الجبال وحالفوه، فملك تهامة وجبالها، وغلب بني نجاح على زبيد سنة 554هـ. وكان هو مؤسس دولة بني مهدي في اليمن. 1
Connections
- Founder of
- Banu Mahdi's state in Yemen
People and things also explored
Sources
- Kitab al-Ibar of Ibn Khaldun
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islam.museum contributors. “Ali ibn Mahdi al-Himyari”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ali-ibn-mahdi-al-himyari/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.