Mudhaykhirah
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]
Mudhaykhirah
مذيخرة Qalamah | |
|---|---|
Village | |
 Building in Mudhaykhirah | |
  Mudhaykhirah Location in Yemen | |
| Coordinates: 13°53.13′N 43°58.03′E | |
| Country |  Yemen |
| Governorate | Ibb |
| District | Mudhaykhirah |
| Subdistrict | Mudhaykhirah |
| Population (2004) | |
| • Total | 1,245 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (AST) |
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
- Central Statistical Organisation. "Yemen Census 2004 - Ibb Governorate" (PDF). p. 551. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-10-24. Retrieved September 19, 2020.
- Kay, Henry Cassels (1892). Yaman, Its Early Medieval History. London: Edward Arnold. pp. 4, 221.
- Kay, Henry Cassels (1892). Yaman, Its Early Medieval History. London: Edward Arnold. pp. 222–23.
- 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.
- 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.