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Dhu Jibla

ذو جبلة

Jibla (medieval Dhu Jibla, Sulayhid capital), Ibb, Yemen.

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Arwa bint Ahmad ibn Ja'far al-Sulayhiyya, called al-Hurra al-Kamila and 'the younger Bilqis', a resolute Yemeni queen raised by Asma' bint Shihab. When her husband al-Mukarram was paralysed he entrusted affairs to her; she ruled from her fortress at Dhu Jibla, continued after al-Mukarram and Saba' ibn Ahmad for some forty years, was named in the Friday sermon after the Fatimid al-Mustansir, and was the last of the Sulayhid rulers.