Zaydi

After Zayd's death, his followers were known as Zaydi Shi’ites, or Fivers.

c. 730 2001

College students speak to Zaydi rebels from the North, who are historically represented as devils by government newspapers.

Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy: Syria and Yemen Crack: From Politics to Soul Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy 2011

College students speak to Zaydi rebels from the North, who are historically represented as devils by government newspapers.

Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy: Syria and Yemen Crack: From Politics to Soul Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy 2011

Saudi Arabia and North Yemen fought a war in 1934 when a prince formerly aligned with Ibn Saud switched allegiance to the Yemeni Prince King Yahya, Although Riyadh supported the Zaydi monarchist predecessors (Zaydi Imams) to the Houthi rebels in the 1962 republican revolution in North Yemen, it now supports the successors to those it opposed in

Interventions R Us - War on Terror or War on Disaffected Yemenis? 2010

The rebels say their community of Shiite Muslims from the Zaydi sect suffer discrimination and neglect and that the government has allowed ultraconservative Sunni extremists too strong a voice in the country.

Yemen Accuses Rebels of Violating Truce 2010

Its leader Hussein al-Houthi was killed during these confrontations, but instead of bringing a halt to the violence, al-Houthi's death contributed to the rebels 'narrative that their distinct culture as followers of the Zaydi branch of Shiite Islam was under attack by Yemen's central government.

Jamal Dajani: Yemen: A Powder Keg Ready to Explode 2009

According to Al Jazeera more than 100 lawyers have offered to defend the shoe-throwing reporter Muntazir al-Zaydi ... pro-bono!

Jamal Dajani: Bush: Not a Shoe-in in Iraq 2009

One attorney said that since the shoe did not hit Mr. Bush, al-Zaydi was merely exercising his freedom of speech and expression.

Jamal Dajani: Bush: Not a Shoe-in in Iraq 2009

Religions: Muslim including Shaf'i (Sunni) and Zaydi (Shi'a), small numbers of Jewish, Christian, and Hindu

Yemen 2008

YemenMuslim including Shaf'i (Sunni) and Zaydi (Shi'a), small numbers of Jewish, Christian, and Hindu

Religions 2008