Zaydis in a Post-Zaydi Yemen: Contemporary 'Ulama Reactions to Zaydism's Marginalization in the Republic of Yemen

Author: James Robin King

"It is their [Zaydis] complex self-reflection - and the resulting reactions it has produced - that I investigate, providing the reader with insight into the political, historical, cultural and doctrinal factors that continue to shape Zaydism and Zaydi thought in Yemen today. I demonstrate that this difficult environment facing the Zaydi madhhab has spurned a number of Zaydi sadah 'ulama - the lynchpins of Zaydi religious, political and thought life."