Zaydi
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Zaydi
First recorded in 1700–10; from Arabic Zayd an imam of the 8th century + -ī a suffix indicating relationship or origin
Example Sentences
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The Helpers of God party militia, or the Houthis, arose among the Zaydi Shiites of northern Yemen in the 1990s as a backlash against the inroads that neighboring, wealthy Wahhabi Saudi Arabia had made.
From Salon • Jul. 14, 2024
Their Zaydi people ran a 1,000-year kingdom in Yemen up until 1962.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 27, 2024
Yemen erupted in civil war after the Houthis, members of the Zaydi sect of Shi'ite Islam, seized the capital Sanaa in 2014.
From Reuters • Nov. 21, 2023
A Zaydi cleric was declaiming about the Quran over a loudspeaker, and now and then he’d lead the crowd in call-and-response chants of “Labayka, ya Abdul Malik,” a traditional pledge of loyalty.
From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2018
In Ibn Jubayr’s time the Zaydi sect was allowed an Imam, though known to be schismatics and abusers of the caliphs.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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