Yaḥyá ibn al-Mahdī ibn al-Qāsim, active 14th century

HMML ID
702066048363
PURL
https://w3id.org/haf/person/702066048363
LC name
Yaḥyá ibn al-Mahdī ibn al-Qāsim, active 14th century
HMML name
Yaḥyá ibn al-Mahdī ibn al-Qāsim, active 14th century
HMML native script
يحيى بن المهدي بن القاسم
Library of Congress
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2022074365
VIAF
https://viaf.org/viaf/9067165628868042480004

Variants

  • Zaydī al-Ḥusaynī, Yaḥyá ibn al-Mahdī
  • Zaydī, Yaḥyá ibn al-Mahdī
  • Ḥusaynī, Yaḥyá ibn al-Mahdī

Personal information

Centuries
14th century CE
Gender
Males
Place died
Associated countries
Occupations
Fields of activity
Hadith ● History ● Sufism ● Zaydīs
Languages

Personal relationships

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General notes

Description
Yaḥyā b. al-Mahdī b. Qāsim b. Muṭahhar al-Zaydī al-Ḥusaynī, part of the Yemenite Zaydī community; author of a hagiographical account of his shaykh and founder of a Sufi order, Ibrāhīm b. Aḥmad al-Kaynaʻī (d. 793/1391), entitled Ṣilat al-ikhwān fī ḥilyat barakat ahl al-zamān; traveled to Mecca
Citations
Wilferd Madelung, "Zaydī Attitudes to Sufism," in Islamic Mysticism Contested: Thirteen Centuries of Controversies and Polemics, ed. Frederick de Jong and Bernd Radtke (Leiden: Brill, 1999), 131, https://archive.org/details/islamicmysticismcontested/page/n71/mode/1up?view=theater.
Description
يحيى بن الإمام المهدي بن القاسم=Yaḥyá ibn al-Imām al-Mahdī ibn al-Qāsim
Citations
ʻAbd al-Salām ʻAbbās Wajīh, Aʻlām al-muʼallifīn al-Zaydīyah (Beirut: Muʼassasat al-Imām Zayd ibn ʻAlī al-Thaqāfīyah, 1999), 1160-1161.
Citations
EMIP 01518, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, accessed June 15, 2022, https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/527246.

Preferred citation

"Yaḥyá ibn al-Mahdī ibn al-Qāsim, active 14th century." HMML Authority File. Hill Museum & Manuscript Library. Last modified September 30, 2022. https://w3id.org/haf/person/702066048363

Change notes

Date added
2022-06-15
Last edited
2022-09-30