The Yuʿfirids (Arabic: بنو يعفر, romanized: Banū Yuʿfir) were an Islamic Himyarite dynasty that held power in the highlands of Yemen from 847 to 997....

Ad-Da'i Yusuf (died September 12, 1012) was an imam of the Zaidi state in Yemen who ruled for two highly turbulent terms (977–999, 1002–1012). Yusuf bin...

Dinar al-Khayyat from the province. He was quickly forced to confront the Yu'firids, whose rebellion had already consumed the Yemeni highlands for over a...

Creation of the Kingdom of Pamplona 841–847 Yu'firid conquest of Yemen Yu'firids Abbasid Caliphate Independence of Yemen from the Abbasid Caliphate 864–869...

where the imams rarely ruled. Among the better known of these are the Yu'firids (in San'a and Shibam, 847-997), the Sulayhids (in the southern highlands...

Arabian Peninsula Umayyads (661–750) Abbasids (750–946) Ziyadids (819–1018) Yu'firids (847–997) Banu Ukhaidhir (865–1066) Rassids (893–1970) Qarmatians (900–1073)...

religious authority and a poet. In June 903, he was taken captive by the Yu'firids, political rivals in the Yemeni highland. He spent several months in a...

Abu'l-Atahiyah of the Tarif family, in 899 switched his support from the Yu'firids to him. The prolonged and changeful struggle for control of Sana'a would...

proceeded against the rebels. Although his initial advance against the Yu'firids ended without accomplishment, he went on a second expedition soon after...

915. In January 917, his stronghold of Mudhaykhira was seized by the Yu'firids, his children captured, and his two sons executed. Ali ibn al-Fadl was...

rule was recognized by the Abbasids in 870, although in practice the Yu'firids were often tributary to their Ziyadid neighbours. Ziyadid power collapsed...

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...

capture it. Mansur therefore marched out with his own forces and routed the Yu'firids in battle, forcing the rebels to withdraw and allowing Abu al-Ala to enter...

200) Himyarite Kingdom (110 BC–AD 525) Ziyadid dynasty (AD 818–1018) Yu'firids (AD 847–997) Rassids (AD 897–1596, AD 1918–1970) Qasimids (AD 1597–1849)...

to the swift collapse of Isma'ili rule in the Yemen. By 917 the Sunni Yu'firids had completed the reconquest of the country in the name of the Abbasid...

imams rarely gained influence. Among the better known of these are the Yu'firids (847–997), the Najahids (1021–1158), the Sulayhids (1047–1138), the Zuray'ids...

Ziyadid Dynasty from total collapse after a devastating attack by the Yu'firids. Prior to the ascendance of Najahids, the south-western coast of Yemen...

Hasa, Awal, Qatif Emirate 1076–1253 AD Wajihids Suhar Emirate 926–965 AD Yu'firids Sana'a, Shibam Kawkabam Principality 847–997 AD Ziyadid Zabid Emirate...

the nearby village of Mahyab as the site of a minor battle between the Yu'firids and followers of the Isma'ili missionary Ali ibn al-Fadl al-Jayshani....

rapidly declined, and Ibn al-Fadl's domain was soon destroyed by the Yu'firids. For over a century, until the rise of the Sulayhid dynasty, Isma'ilism...

Ziyadid Emirate, autonomous state within the Abbasid Caliphate (819–945) Yu'firids (847–997) Ziyadid Emirate, independent state (945–1018) Divided in many...

against the rebellion of the Yu'firids. After arriving in the Yemen in early 844, he advanced with his army and placed the Yu'firids under siege at Jabal Dhukhar...

was also known as Shibam Yaḥbis, Shibam Ḥimyar and Shibam Aqyan. The Yuʿfirids Muslim dynasty (847-997) that emerged in the Yemen is originally from...

weakened the Fatimid position in the Yemen, allowing the pro-Abbasid Yu'firids to regain much lost ground, and thwarted any hopes of a simultaneous attack...