Nevertheless, al-Mahdi Ahmad's sphere of power soon stretched as far south as Dhamar.
In the presence of a numerous congregation of Zaidi scholars, he adopted the title al-Mahdi Ali and took possession of Sa'dah and Dhamar.
The Zaidi leaders drew up plans of advancing further to Dhamar.
The population of Sana'a, Dhamar and Yarim split into factions backing either Ali or Abbas.
The governor in Dhamar, az-Zaidi, rebelled and captured the imam's son Ja'far.
Al-Mansur Muhammad attacked Tahiride positions between Dhamar and San'a in 1496 and 1498.
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Muhammad bin Ali as-Siraji al-Washali was one of the three Sayyids who claimed the Yemeni imamate after the death of al-Mutawakkil al-Mutahhar in Dhamar in 1474.
After some skirmishing, the Tahiride Sultan Ali temporarily took Dhamar in 1460.
He was the husband of as-Sayyidah Fatimah, daughter of the headman of the Kurds in Dhamar, who built the al-Abhar Mosque in San'a.
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About the middle of the century, his father Ali al-Mahdi ibn Muhammad attained considerable influence, which was however reduced before his death in Dhamar in 1372.
The following sentence was reportedly uttered in 654/5 A.D. in Dhamar.
He was born in Dhamar and studied history at university, obtaining a Master's degree in the subject.
Vinod Kumar Dwivedi (born 10 May 1961) is an Indian classical Dhrupad-Dhamar singer, belonging to the Dharbhanga gharana.
Al-Mu`allimee's father Yahya ibn `Ali was raised in the village of al-Tufan in the Automah district of Dhamar, Yemen.
This is the only Gharana that has still continued to sing Dhrupad-Dhamar along with Nom-Tom Alap, Khayal, Thumri, Tappa, Tarana, Hori, Dadra, Ghazal, Kaul, Rasiya etc.
In his adulthood - specifically in its infancy- when he was an associate for his father impartial judge learned him everythings about Islamic law while he was studying in the Aviation College to become a pilot, but did not complete that studies and continued working with his father as a judge in court of Dhamar in the reign of Imam Ahmed Yahya Hamid al-Din where has raised a lot of controversy wonders and attention to his smart skills at the same time.
In two districts, Hajjah and Dhamar the results were cancelled due to irregularities.