Umara al-Yamani

Umāra al-Yamanī
Born1121 AD (515 AH)
Murtan, Yemen
DiedSaturday, April 6, 1174 AD (2 Ramadan 569 AH)
Cairo, Egypt
Occupation(s)faqih (juriconsult), historian, poet
Academic work
EraAbbasid period
School or traditionShafi'i, Sunni
Main interestsTraditional Arabic Literature, history
Notable works
  • Tarikh al-Yaman (تاريخ اليمن)
  • Mufid fi Akhbar Zabid (مُفِيد في أخبار زبيد)
  • Al-nukat al-'Asriyah (النُّكت العصريَّة في أخبار الوزراء المصريَّة»).

Najm al-Dīn Umāra al-Ḥakamī al-Yamanī[a] (Arabic: نجم الدين عمارة الحكمي اليمني) was a Sunni historian, jurist and poet of Yemen of great repute who was closely associated with the late Fatimid Caliphate of Egypt. He was executed by order of Saladin at Cairo on April 6, 1174 for his part in a conspiracy to restore Fatimid rule. His Tarikh al-Yaman is the earliest, and in respects the most important, history of Yemen from the Islamic era.[5]

  1. ^ Ibn Khallikan 1843, p. 367.
  2. ^ Kay 1892, p. v.
  3. ^ Ibn Khallikan 1843, p. 371 (note 1).
  4. ^ Smoor 2000, p. 836.
  5. ^ Kay 1892, p. iv.


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