Zaydist

plural Zaydists

1. Zaydi

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

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

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

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

   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.

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