Sayyids, Tribal Kinship, and the Imamate in Zaydi Yemen under Imam Yaḥyā Sharaf al-Dīn (d. 965/1558)

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Medieval Encounters Pub Date : 2023-11-16 DOI:10.1163/15700674-12340173

Ekaterina Pukhovaia

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Abstract

Studies of Zaydi Yemen tend to underline the divisions, rather than connections, between sayyids, descendants of the Prophet, and tribal groups in the political sphere. This paper answers the question what value family connections to tribes had for ambitious sayyids in early modern Yemen who wanted to become Zaydi imams. To this end, the article examines a section of Imam Yaḥyā Sharaf al-Dīn’s (d. 965/1558) unpublished biography, containing the genealogy of his second wife, Tāj al-Bahāʾ bint al-shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn. The paper argues that the imam and his circle valued the connections that the marriage to a daughter of a shaykh brought to the imamate, and that it is due to its symbolic value for the legitimacy of the imamate that her genealogy was included in the biography.

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伊玛目亚赫亚-谢拉夫-丁（965/1558 年卒于也门扎伊尔派）的赛义德人、部落亲缘关系和伊玛目教权

对扎伊尔派也门的研究往往强调先知后裔sayyids与部落群体在政治领域的分歧而非联系。本文回答了这样一个问题：在近代早期的也门，对于希望成为扎伊尔伊玛目的雄心勃勃的sayyids来说，与部落的家族联系有什么价值。为此，文章研究了伊玛目亚赫亚-谢拉夫-丁（Yaḥyā Sharaf al-Dīn，卒于 965/1558）未出版的传记中的一部分内容，其中包含其第二任妻子塔吉-巴哈-丁-谢拉夫-丁的家谱。本文认为，伊玛目及其圈子重视与谢赫女儿的婚姻给伊玛目地位带来的联系，正是由于其对伊玛目地位合法性的象征意义，她的家谱才被纳入传记中。

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