Mahdids

The Mahdiden, Arabic بني مهدي, DMG Banī Mahdi, were a dynasty in Yemen during the period between 1159-1173.

Your name goes on her first ruler Ali Mahdi 'm back. Ali bin Mahdi again led his lineage back to the Islamic kings of Himyar and announced in the Tihama religious ideas. He tried one after the other to conquer the centers of al - Kadra and Zabid, which failed. From then on he tried to reach his goals with intrigue, he was concerned in the direction of Nadschahiden - viziers and what ultimately led to the assassination of al - Surur Fātikīs.

The sons consolidated the balance of power in the Tihama and closed with the Zurayiden a superficial peace, at the same time they raided southern provinces to loot them. The Ayyubide Turan Shah stopped along with its alliance partners, the Sulaymaniden, the military campaigns of the sons of Ali bin Mahdi. Abd al - Nabī and his brother Ahmad were captured. Both were eventually killed, bringing the era of Mahdiden came to an end.

The Mahdiden were after the hamdanidische sultans, the Zurayiden and Sulaymaniden the fourth dynasty, which supplanted by the Ayyubid and was extinguished epochal.