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13 unusual facts about Dhamar


Al-Mahdi Ahmad bin al-Husayn

Nevertheless, al-Mahdi Ahmad's sphere of power soon stretched as far south as Dhamar.

Al-Mahdi Ali

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.

Al-Mahdi Ibrahim

The Zaidi leaders drew up plans of advancing further to Dhamar.

Al-Mansur Ahmad

The population of Sana'a, Dhamar and Yarim split into factions backing either Ali or Abbas.

Al-Mansur al-Qasim al-Iyyani

The governor in Dhamar, az-Zaidi, rebelled and captured the imam's son Ja'far.

Al-Mansur Muhammad

Al-Mansur Muhammad attacked Tahiride positions between Dhamar and San'a in 1496 and 1498.

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.

Al-Mutawakkil al-Mutahhar

After some skirmishing, the Tahiride Sultan Ali temporarily took Dhamar in 1460.

Al-Nasir Muhammad Salah al-Din

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.

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.

Himyaritic language

The following sentence was reportedly uttered in 654/5 A.D. in Dhamar.

Muhammad al-Gharbi Amran

He was born in Dhamar and studied history at university, obtaining a Master's degree in the subject.

Vinod Kumar Dwivedi

Vinod Kumar Dwivedi (born 10 May 1961) is an Indian classical Dhrupad-Dhamar singer, belonging to the Dharbhanga gharana.


Abdur-Rahman al-Mu'allimee al-Yamani

Al-Mu`allimee's father Yahya ibn `Ali was raised in the village of al-Tufan in the Automah district of Dhamar, Yemen.

Agra gharana

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.

Ibrahim al-Hamdi

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.

Yemeni parliamentary election, 1997

In two districts, Hajjah and Dhamar the results were cancelled due to irregularities.