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21 unusual facts about Sa'dah


Abu Hashim al-Hasan

After he had lost the city for good, he withdrew to Sa'dah in the north, which was the old stronghold of the Zaydiyyah.

Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya

In 896 some tribal leaders from Sa'dah and Khawlan invited Yahya to come back and end the strife-torn conditions of northern Yemen.

Al-Hadi Yahya

People in the traditional centre of the Zaidi polity, Sa'dah, accepted Najm ad-Din Yahya as imam under the name al-Hadi Yahya.

Al-Mahdi Ahmad bin al-Husayn

The new imam took the traditional capital of the Zaidi imams, Sa'dah, from the Sulaimanids, and extended his sway over 20 fortresses.

Al-Mahdi al-Husayn

With this, the power of al-Mahdi al-Husayn extended from Alhan to Sa'dah and San'a.

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.

Ali bin Muhammad al-Hosni was born in the village al-Ahani in the Sa'dah area in northern Yemen.

Al-Mahdi Muhammad

An al-Mu'ayyad al-Husayn was proclaimed imam in Sa'dah in 1709-1712, and in 1714 an al-Mutawakkil bin Ali briefly besieged the imam at al-Mawahib.

Al-Mansur al-Hasan

Al-Mansur al-Hasan had to stay for much of his time in Sa'dah, the traditional stronghold of the imams in the far north.

Al-Mansur al-Qasim

Infighting among the Turkish administrators in 1613 left the north of the country exposed to the forces of the imam, and the important city Sa'dah fell in 1617.

Al-Mansur al-Qasim al-Iyyani

Al-Qasim invaded Yemen in 997 or 998 and appropriated Sa'dah, the traditional capital of the Zaydiyyah domain.

Al-Mansur Ali bin Salah ad-Din

He had to fight hard to gain control over Sa'dah, the traditional centre of Zaidi power in the north.

Al-Mansur Muhammad

Al-Mu'ayyad Muhammad ruled San'a and the surrounding districts; the Kawkaban area stood under the sons of the old imam al-Mutawakkil al-Mutahhar; and the traditional Zaidi centre Sa'dah and its districts were divided between al-Mansur Muhammad and two other families.

Al-Mu’ayyad Muhammad

The sons of the old imam al-Mutawakkil al-Mutahhar dominated Kawkaban, and the region around the traditional Zaidi centre Sa'dah was divided between imam al-Mansur Muhammad and two other factions.

Al-Muntakhab al-Hasan

The rivalling Yu'firid Dynasty controlled Sa'dah, the residence of the Rassids, for four months after an-Nasir's demise.

Al-Murtada Muhammad

He withdrew to a life of scholarship and contemplation and died in Sa'dah, the centre of Zaydiyya rule, in May 922.

An-Nasir Ahmad

After a sojourn in Medina he returned to the Zaidi capital in Yemen, Sa'dah, where he was chosen to succeed his brother al-Murtada Muhammad in September 913.

An-Nasir Muhammad bin Yusuf

Nevertheless, the people of the traditional centre of the Zaydiyyah community, Sa'dah, refused to support him and instead proclaimed al-Hadi Izz ad-Din.

Hamdanid sultans

From his base im Sa'dah he marched against San'a in 1050 and defeated Hamid ad-Dawla Hatim, but was unable to secure the city.

Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi

On 5 June 2013, tens of thousands of Yemeni Shias attended the reburial of the remains of al-Houthi in Sa'dah, where armed rebels were deployed in large numbers.

Turan-Shah

In 1175, he drove out the Hamdanid emir, Ali ibn Hakim al-Wahid, from Sana'a after the latter's army was weakened by continuous raids from the Zaidi tribes of Sa'dah.


Corky the Hornet

There he worked on such Disney films as Johnny Appleseed and Little Toot, as well as creating Mr. Bluebird (on my shoulder) from the “Zippity Doo Dah” portion of Song of the South.

Cretic

Annie Hall's often-quoted line from the movie of that name is spoken as a cretic: "La-di-dah!"

Doo Dah Parade

In recent years, participants have included groups such as the Fishnet Mafia, the Wilber Hills Country Club, Feature Creatures Haunted Acting Troupe of Central Ohio, Four Men Walking Abreast (four men carrying a pink balloon adorned with a brighter pink spot in the middle), Deri Air, the Ohio Roller Girls, and the Doo Dah Band.

Duthain Dealbh

Duthain Dealbh (meaning Fleeting Sculpture in the Irish language and pronounced du-hawn dah-liv), is a group of artists made up of the three Irish sculptors Daniel Doyle, Niall Magee and Alan Magee, all graduates of Fine Art Sculpture from the Dublin Institute of Technology.

Fernanda

Fernanda (pronounced fer-NAHN-dah) is a Portuguese, Spanish and Italian feminine equivalent of Fernando, a male given name of Germanic origin, with an original meaning of "adventurous, bold journey".

James Baskett

James Baskett (February 16, 1904 – July 9, 1948) was an American actor known for his portrayal of Uncle Remus, singing the song "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" in the 1946 Disney feature film Song of the South.

Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114

Operated with a Boeing 727-224, registration 5A-DAH, Flight 114 was an international scheduled TripoliBenghaziCairo passenger service.

Mayor Quimby

During the USA Today.com contest to choose which Springfield would host the release of The Simpsons Movie, Ted Kennedy himself appears in a video in which he invited "Diamond Joe" Quimby and the film to premiere in Springfield, Massachusetts, and even mocked his own oft-mocked pronunciation of the word "Chowder" (as "Chow-Dah"); however, Springfield, Vermont was chosen instead.

Morh Kfarsghab

A written document mentioning Morh Kfarsghab is dated to October / November 1748 AD (Thu'l-Qa'dah 1161 Hijri).

Mormon folk music

Like many folk songs, the Du Dah Mormon Song is set to a recognizable tune: Stephen Foster's Camptown Races.

Operation Blow to the Head

Operation Blow to the Head was a Yemeni military operation against the militants in the insurgent Yemeni town of Sa'dah in the Saada Governorate.

Parakseno sinesthima

Another song from the album "Skliri kardia" was also a Greek version of "Habibi Dah Nari Narien" made famous Hisham Abbas.

Qazi Mir Imdad Ali

Mohammad Yusuf died due to Pneumonia in an early age on 9 Dhu al-Qi'dah at Tijara while Anwari Begum died at the age of 84 years on 16 Shawwal / 15 May 1957 at Karachi, Pakistan.

Sara dar dah daghigh-eh

Sara dar dah daghigh-eh (2007) (aka Sara in 10 minutes) is an Iranian short documentary film co-produced and directed by Sadaf Foroughi.

Siege of Dammaj

Houthi appointed Sa'dah governor Fares Mana'a tried to mediate a cease-fire in which the Houthis would re-open the road and both sides would withdraw to their old positions.

Tamiel

His name is usually translated as "perfection of God" (the combination of tamiym and El-God) but Tamiel is also called either Kasdeja (also Kasdaye, "kahs-DAH-yay", כַּשְׂדַּי, "Chaldean") or Kasyade (compd. of Heb.: כסה kasah "to conceal" + יד yad "hand, power", meaning "covered hand" or "hidden power") in the Book of Enoch, Chapter 69.

Tony Baxter

Baxter had remembered from a previous Walt Disney film: the "Song of the South", had contained a song titled "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah," which he synced with the animatronics transferred from America Sings.

Undermain Theatre

In 2001 the company returned to the Balkans with a new work and performed at the DAH Teatar Anniversary Celebration in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.