Mudhaykhirah
مذيخرة
Qalamah
Village
Building in Mudhaykhirah
Mudhaykhirah is located in Yemen
Mudhaykhirah
Mudhaykhirah
Location in Yemen
Coordinates: 13°53.13′N 43°58.03′E / 13.88550°N 43.96717°E / 13.88550; 43.96717
Country Yemen
GovernorateIbb
DistrictMudhaykhirah
SubdistrictMudhaykhirah
Population
 (2004)
 • Total1,245
Time zoneUTC+3 (AST)

Mudhaykhirah (Arabic: مذيخرة) is a village in southwestern Yemen. It is administratively a part of the Mudhaykhirah subdistrict in Mudhaykhirah District, Ibb Governorate. The village had a population of 1,245 according to the 2004 census.[1]

History

Various accounts are given regarding the origins of Mudhaykirah. According to Umara ibn Abi al-Hasan al-Yamani, the town was founded by a mawla of the Ziyadid dynasty in the ninth century; Baha al-Din al-Janadi, on the other hand, claims that it was built by a member of the Banu Manakh, who conquered the area during the reign of the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun (r. 813–833).[2]

In 905 Mudhaykhirah was captured by the Isma'ili missionary (da'i) Ali ibn al-Fadl al-Jayshani, who expelled and killed its Manakhi ruler in battle. The town subsequently served as the base of Ali's operations for the remainder of his career. A short time after Ibn al-Fadl's death in 915, the town was besieged and taken by the Yu'firids and devastated in the process; al-Janadi, writing in the fourteenth century, remarked that it remained in a ruined state from that point until his own time.[3][4]

The town was also known to the tenth-century geographer Ibn Hawqal as a source of wars plants for textile dyes.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Central Statistical Organisation. "Yemen Census 2004 - Ibb Governorate" (PDF). p. 551. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-10-24. Retrieved September 19, 2020.
  2. ↑ Kay, Henry Cassels (1892). Yaman, Its Early Medieval History. London: Edward Arnold. pp. 4, 221.
  3. ↑ Kay, Henry Cassels (1892). Yaman, Its Early Medieval History. London: Edward Arnold. pp. 222–23.
  4. ↑ Langroudi, Reza Rezazadeh (2014). "The Qarmaṭī Movement of ʿAlī b. al-Faḍl in Yemen (268-303/881-915)". Studia Islamica. 109 (2): 191–207. doi:10.1163/19585705-12341302. JSTOR 43577567. Retrieved September 19, 2020.
  5. ↑ Serjeant, R. B. (1948). "Material for a History of Islamic Textiles up to the Mongol Conquest". Ars Islamica. 13: 75–117. JSTOR 4515648. Retrieved September 19, 2020.


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