Zaydīyah

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 Shīʿites. Early in the 10th century the Zaydīyah became dominant in Yemen, and thereafter Zaydī imāms were the spiritual rulers of that area. From the departure of the Turks in 1917 until 1962, they were also the temporal rulers of Yemen.

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