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Zabid

زبيد

Yemeni coastal town, a centre of Islamic learning in the later Middle Ages and a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1993.

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Zabid is a Yemeni coastal city, which was a centre of Islamic learning in the late Middle Ages, and has been inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List since 1993. 1

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Fath al-Bari reaches Yemen, 901· Turanshah's conquest of Zabid (569 AH)· The Zabid and Mawza' earthquakes, 916· The Zabid windstorm, 911

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Abd al-Nabi, lord of Zabid· شيخ الإسلام ابن حجر العسقلاني· Shams al-Dawla Turanshah ibn Ayyub· Fath al-Bari reaches Yemen, 901· Turanshah's conquest of Zabid (569 AH)· The Zabid and Mawza' earthquakes, 916· The Zabid windstorm, 911

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islam.museum contributors. “Zabid”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/zabid/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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Abd al-Nabi, lord of Zabid

Abd al-Nabi, master of Zabid, who had cut the Abbasid khutba — confident the heat would kill the invaders 'save a lizard's bite', he rode out against Turanshah in Rajab 569, lost, and was taken with his pious wife al-Hurra; handed to Sayf al-Dawla Mubarak ibn Kamil of Shayzar's Banu Munqidh to yield up his treasures, including his father's grave-hoard.