Mudhaykhirah
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Mudhaykhirah ({{Langx|ar|مذيخرة}}) is a village in southwestern Yemen. It is administratively a part of the Mudhaykhirah subdistrict in Mudhaykhirah District, Ibb Governorate. The village had a population of 1,245 according to the 2004 census.{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024134004/http://www.cso-yemen.org/books/census2004/ibb.pdf|archive-date=2012-10-24|url=http://www.cso-yemen.org/books/census2004/ibb.pdf|title=Yemen Census 2004 - Ibb Governorate|access-date=September 19, 2020|author=Central Statistical Organisation|page=551}}
History
Various accounts are given regarding the origins of Mudhaykirah. According to Umara ibn Abi al-Hasan al-Yamani, the town was founded by a mawla of the Ziyadid dynasty in the ninth century; Baha al-Din al-Janadi, on the other hand, claims that it was built by a member of the Banu Manakh, who conquered the area during the reign of the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun ({{reign|813|833}}).{{cite book |author1-last=Kay |author1-first=Henry Cassels |title=Yaman, Its Early Medieval History |publisher=Edward Arnold |location=London |year=1892 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HD_PAAAAMAAJ |pages=4, 221}}
In 905 Mudhaykhirah was captured by the Isma'ili missionary (da'i) Ali ibn al-Fadl al-Jayshani, who expelled and killed its Manakhi ruler in battle. The town subsequently served as the base of Ali's operations for the remainder of his career. A short time after Ibn al-Fadl's death in 915, the town was besieged and taken by the Yu'firids and devastated in the process; al-Janadi, writing in the fourteenth century, remarked that it remained in a ruined state from that point until his own time.{{cite book |author1-last=Kay |author1-first=Henry Cassels |title=Yaman, Its Early Medieval History |publisher=Edward Arnold |location=London |year=1892 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HD_PAAAAMAAJ |pages=222–23}}{{cite journal |last1=Langroudi |first1=Reza Rezazadeh |date=2014 |title=The Qarmaṭī Movement of ʿAlī b. al-Faḍl in Yemen (268-303/881-915) |journal=Studia Islamica |volume=109 |issue=2 |pages=191–207 |doi= 10.1163/19585705-12341302|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43577567 |access-date=September 19, 2020 |jstor=43577567|url-access=subscription }}
The town was also known to the tenth-century geographer Ibn Hawqal as a source of wars plants for textile dyes.{{cite journal |last1=Serjeant |first1=R. B. |date=1948 |title=Material for a History of Islamic Textiles up to the Mongol Conquest |journal=Ars Islamica |volume=13 |pages=75–117 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4515648 |access-date=September 19, 2020 |jstor=4515648}}
References
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{{Ibb Governorate|state=collapsed}}
Category:Populated places in Ibb Governorate
Category:Mudhaykhirah District
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