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.