Cities with a population over 1000 database. 2013.
Zaydīyah — ▪ Islamic sect also spelled Zaidiya , or Zaidīs , English Zaydis a sect of Shīʿite Muslims owing allegiance to Zayd ibn ʿAlī, grandson of Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī. Doctrinally the Zaydīyah are closer to the majority Sunnites than are the other… … Universalium
Az Zaydiyah — Admin ASC 2 Code Orig. name Az Zaydīyah Country and Admin Code YE.08.1807 YE … World countries Adminstrative division ASC I-II
Yemen — /yem euhn, yay meuhn/, n. 1. Republic of, a country in S Arabia, formed in 1990 by the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People s Democratic Republic of Yemen. 13,972,477; 207,000 sq. mi. (536,130 sq. km). Cap.: (political) San a. Cap.:… … Universalium
Arabia, history of — Introduction history of the region from prehistoric times to the present. Some time after the rise of Islam in the first quarter of the 7th century AD and the emergence of the Arabian (Arab) Muslims as the founders of one of the great … Universalium
Shīʿite — ▪ Islam Introduction Arabic Shīʿī, collective Shīʿah member of the smaller of the two major branches of Islam, distinguished from the majority Sunnis (Sunnite). Early development Early in the history of Islam, the Shīʿites were a… … Universalium
Districts of Yemen — Yemen … Wikipedia
Sanaa — Arabic Ṣanaʽāʾ City (pop., 1994: 954,400), capital of Yemen. Located in the western part of the country, it was built on the site of an ancient pre Islamic stronghold that has been traditionally dated to the 1st century AD. Its people converted… … Universalium
Ibn Abī al-Rijāl, Aḥmad — ▪ Yemeni scholar in full Aḥmad Ibn Abī al Rijāl ibn Ṣāliḥ born July 1620, al Shabaṭ, Arabia died March 1681, Sanaa Yemeni scholar and theologian, who is the best source of historical information on the little known sect of Shīʿī Muslims… … Universalium
Islāmic world — Introduction prehistory and history of the Islamic community. Adherence to Islām is a global phenomenon: Muslims predominate in some 30 to 40 countries, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and along a belt that stretches across northern… … Universalium
Rāfiḍah — ▪ Islam (Arabic: “Rejectors”), broadly, Shīʿite Muslims who reject (rafḍ) the caliphate of Muḥammad s two successors Abū Bakr and ʿUmar. Many Muslim scholars, however, have stated that the term Rāfiḍah cannot be applied to the Shīʿites in… … Universalium
