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Al-Mansur Ali I

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90:, Abu Nuqta. Defeated in battle, Sharif Hamud submitted to the Wahhabis. As a vassall of the latter, he committed himself to break off relations with al-Mansur Ali I. During the next three years he conquered the Tihamah from the imam, while Abu Nuqta performed raids into the territory still loyal to the Zaidi state. Al-Mansur Ali I prepared an expedition to Tihamah in 1806, but it never got underway; the event indicates the weakness of the Zaidi imamate at this time. Sharif Hamud, however, fell out with the Wahhabi regime in 1808, and in the next year he killed Abu Nuqta in an assault. 106:, wrote favourably of him, while other texts assert that he left governance to his ministers and kept busy with building activities and womanizing. On the other hand, he was considered brave, generous and hospitable. By the early 19th century his faculties began to fail, and intrigues arose at court while chaos reigned in the land. The 110:
Hasan al-Ulufi who kept the real powers in San'a was arrested by the old imam's son Ahmad, who took over the administration in 1808. He managed to appease the dissatisfied tribesmen who had performed raids around San'a. When al-Mansur Ali I died in the next year, his son became ruler in name, as
58:. He led a number of successful military expeditions against warring tribes. After his father's death he successfully claimed the imamate, taking the name al-Mansur Ali. His first twenty years in power were marked by periodical petty wars with unruly tribesmen. In particular a 62:
called Ibn Ishaq (d. 1805) raised the standard of rebellion and claimed the imamate from 1781 to 1785, assisted by Arhab tribesmen. Al-Mansur Ali I managed to deal with these crises.
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The character of al-Mansur Ali I is debated among the chroniclers. The well-known religious scholar
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The Yemen in the 18th and 19th Centuries; A Political and Intellectual History
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led to severe losses for the Zaidi state after 1800. The religious
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Index

Imam
Yemen
Qasimid
Muhammad
Zaidi
imamate
al-Mahdi Abbas
San'a
Sayyid
Arabia
Wahhabi
Hijaz
Tihamah
Asir
Muhammad ash-Shawkani
qadi
wazir
al-Mutawakkil Ahmad
History of Yemen
Imams of Yemen
Wahhabism
al-Mahdi Abbas
Zaydi
Imam of Yemen
al-Mutawakkil Ahmad
Categories
18th-century Yemeni people
19th-century Yemeni people
Zaydi imams of Yemen
1738 births

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