Since much of the Abbasid administration had been Persian anyway, the Buwayhid, who were Zaidi Shia, were quietly able to assume real power in Baghdad.
Zaidi Shi`ites however, do not attribute ‘ismah to the Imāms.
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Since his unique birth in a boat along the Rajang River, the longest river in Malaysia and the pride of Sarawak, Ahmad Zaidi has traveled a long way.
People in the traditional centre of the Zaidi polity, Sa'dah, accepted Najm ad-Din Yahya as imam under the name al-Hadi Yahya.
The new imam took the traditional capital of the Zaidi imams, Sa'dah, from the Sulaimanids, and extended his sway over 20 fortresses.
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.
In 1738 a serious crisis occurred in the relations between the Zaidi government and the French traders in Mocha.
The governor in Dhamar, az-Zaidi, rebelled and captured the imam's son Ja'far.
He had to fight hard to gain control over Sa'dah, the traditional centre of Zaidi power in the north.
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.
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.
A Caspian Zaidi leader in Persia, Abu Talib Yahya, is sometimes formally counted as imam in the period 1020-1033 in Zaydiyyah historiography.
Sharif Hamud again proclaimed his allegiance to the Zaidi imam and restored to him the cities Luhayya, Hudaydah and Bayt al-Faqih.
The Tahiride Dynasty ruled the lowlands and southern highland from Ta'izz, and had recently sacked the Zaidi capital San'a.
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.
On June 29, 2009, Dr Shuaib Zaidi a surgical oncologist, assisted by Dr Yusuf Tak, an anaesthetist, implanted a Chemoport Device, which is an embedded device within the layers of the skin, to act as a port for the administration of chemotherapeutic drugs for cancer.
The Minbar at Darbar has been graced by notable scholars from Allama Mirza Yousaf Hussain, Hafiz Kifayat Hussain, Syed Azhar Hassan Zaidi, Hafiz Aashiq Hussain, to illustrious modern luminaries like Mohsin Naqvi, Allama Talib Johri, Agha Naseem Abbas and Allama Ghazanfar Abbas Tonsvi as the ace cynosure delivering three ashraas a year.
Sayyids of this village are Kazimi (Musavi) who came to India from Gardez Afghanistan, while Barha Sayyids are Zaidi Alwasti.
The conflict has its roots in an insurgency against the government of Yemen which was initiated by the Zaidi religious leader Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi in 2004.
In Gujarat, the Sayyid have ten sub-divisions, the main ones being the Shirazi, Mattari, Bukhari, Naqvi, Tirmizi, Zaidi, Rifai, Bhaktari, Qadiris, Chishti, mahdavi, Kitoi, Mashadi, Idrusi, and Bahraini.
He read majalises at Husainia Irshadia, Rudauli by invitation of Syed Irshad Husain Zaidi for 58 years and also read at Hyderabad, Rampur, Jalali, Lucknow and many other places.
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.
They were published in 1975 by a committee called "Jashn-e-Zaidi", translated to English as "A Celebration for Zaidi", formed to honor Shri Ali Jawad Zaidi, a noted writer, statesman and freedom fighter.
Zahur Zaidi's family traces its origins in Village Baragaon Tehsil Shahgunj District Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.