non-alid

Updated: May 5, 2025

The Zaidites, who settled in Yemen from the ninth century on, are really Shi'ites, although of the most moderate kind. Without striving after expansion outside Arabia, they firmly refuse to give up their own Khalifate and to acknowledge the sovereignty of any non-Alid ruler; the efforts of the Turks to subdue them or to make a compromise with them have had no lasting results.

C. Snouck Hurgronje - Mohammedanism: Lectures on Its Origin, Its Religious and Political Growth,: and Its Present State