Al-Mu'ayyad Ahmad
Al-Mu'ayyad Ahmad Amuli (944–1020) was an imam of the Zaydiyyah sect. Ancestor in the tenth degree was the Shi'a imam Hasan bin Ali. He was a disciple of Abu Abdallah al-Basri and the Qadi Abd al-Jabbar, and a learned expert on the Ahl al-Bayt concept.
Al-Mu'ayyad Ahmad
- Born
- 944 · Amol.
- Died
- 1020
- Occupation
- poet · islamic jurist
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Accepted as imam in Gilan and Deylaman in Persia, and had connections with the Zaidi area of Yemen. After 1013, no local imam was appointed for many years in the Yemeni highland. In Zaidi historiography, al-Mu'ayyad Ahmad is sometimes listed as such, although he never visited Yemen. He died in Langa in Deylaman in 1020, being succeeded by his brother Abu Talib Yahya.
Positions recorded include Imam of Yemen.
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- 1.The line of descent was al-Hasan bin Ali - Zaid - al-Hasan - al-Qasim - Muhammad - Harun - Muhammad - al-Husayn - Harun - al-Husayn - al-Mu'ayyad Ahmad.
- 2.Mu'tazila.
- 3.List in Cornelis van Arendonk, Les débuts de l'mamat zaidite au Yemen. Leiden 1960; Cesare Ansaldi, Il Yemen nella storia e nella leggenda. Rome 1933, p. 134; http://www.hukam.net/family.php?fam=2.
- 4.Carl Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, Vol. I. Leiden 1943.
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