Zaydist

Zaydist

English

Noun

Zaydist (plural Zaydists)

1. Zaydi
   • 2005, Elham Manea, Regional Politics in the Gulf: Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, p 19

     It also prepared the ground for the Zaydist sect, which appealed to a dissatisfied people.

   • 2006, Mercedes García-Arenal, Messianism and Puritanical Reform: Mahdīs of the Muslim West

     Shaqya's case, like that of Idris, shows that Zaydist propaganda had reached the Berbers, creating an atmosphere which was favourable to the reception as Imams of figures descending from al- Nafs al-Zakiyya, or claiming such descent.

   • 2014, Donatella della Porta, Mobilizing for Democracy: Comparing 1989 and 2011, p 225

     ... as well as the ethnic armed rebellion of the Zaydists in the Sa'da region.