Hashid

Who holds it

Name

Not named in the sources reached

Title

Shaykhs of Hashid

Since

Not pinned

Confidence

low

Overlord

The imam al-Mansur Abd Allah by allegiance; the Ayyubids claim the highlands but do not rule here.

What it holds

• Khamir
• Huth
• Kharif
• The western edge of the Bawn plain

How things stand that morning

Self-governing, in the imam's camp.

Customs

Customary tribal law ('urf) and arbitration by shaykhs; protected markets and hijras; Zaydi in faith.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Tribal geography from general knowledge; the alliance of 1197-98 from English Wikipedia and the Diyanet encyclopedia; no names for 1200.

On the map: Rough; tribal limits shifted.

Primary sources for Zaydi imamate

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• History of Yemen, Umara al-Yamani (Umara ibn Ali al-Hakami) (1168 to 1174, at Cairo). The history of Yemen's dynasties to the eve of the Ayyubid conquest: the Ziyadids and Najahids of Zabid, the Sulayhids and their queen Arwa, the Zuray'ids of Aden, the Hamdanid sultans of San'a and the Mahdids of Zabid, with Umara's own career as a Yemeni envoy to Fatimid Cairo. Read online
• History of the Observant Traveller (A Traveller in Thirteenth-Century Arabia), Ibn al-Mujawir (Jamal al-Din Yusuf ibn Ya'qub) (about 1226 to 1232). A merchant-traveller's description of western and southern Arabia a generation after 1200: Mecca and the Hijaz ports, the Red Sea crossing, Zabid and the Tihama, Aden with its customs and tariffs, the Hadramawt coast, Dhofar and Oman, Socotra, and the opposite African shore at Zeila and the Dahlak islands. Read online