Ziyadid dynasty

The Ziyadiden (also: Ziyaditen; Arab بنو زياد, DMG Banū Ziyad ) was a Muslim dynasty in western Yemen ( 818-1018 ( ?)).

To the end time of the dynasty there is no reliable information. The only certainty is that the death of the last detectable Ziyadidien, a certain Abū al - Jaish, the year was 981.

With the relocation of the capital of the Caliphate to Baghdad Yemen to a remote border province for the Caliph was. The increasing weakness of Abbasidenherrschaft used by 825 of the Yemeni governor and eponym of the dynasty, Muhammad ibn Ziyad and founded an independent kingdom in the Tihama on the Red Sea. Capital of his reign was Zabid.

Reached its climax in the kingdom under the rule of Ishaq ibn Ibrahim ( 904-981 ). This established, inter alia, the University of Zabid, which was an important place of learning in the Muslim world in the Middle Ages and was concluded only in the 20th century.