Ziyadid Dynasty

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Establishment

• January 867: The Ziyadid were a Muslim dynasty that ruled western Yemen from 819, after the violent end of Abbasid caliph al-Musta'in in 866.

Chronology

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1. Events

• January 898: An imam of the Shi'ite Zaydiyyah sect, al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya, established a power base in the northern highlands in 897. It was the beginning of the Yemeni imamate.
• January 927: The Wajihids were an Arab dynasty that ruled in coastal Oman in the early and mid-10th century AD.

Disestablishment

• January 1023: Najah founded the Najahid dynasty in 1022.