Al-Mahdi Muhammad bin Ahmed (October 27, 1637 – August 2, 1718), also known as Ṣāḥib al-Mawāhib,[1] was an Imam of Yemen who ruled in 1689–1718.[2] He belonged to the Qasimid family that was descended from the Islamic prophet Muhammad and dominated the Zaidi imamate in 1597–1962.
- ^ Judaeo-Yemenite Studies - Proceedings of the Second International Congress (ed. Ephraim Isaac & Yosef Tobi), Institute of Semitic Studies: Princeton University 1999, p. 46
- ^ David Solomon Sassoon (ed.), Ohel Dawid (vol. 2), Oxford University Press: London 1932, p. 969, s.v. דופי הזמן - Vicissitudes of Time - being a description of 17th and 18th century chronology written by a Yemenite Jew (Hebrew); a Microfilm of the manuscript is available at the National Library at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Givat Ram Campus), Manuscript Dept., Microfilm # F-9103, and where pp. 13-14 mention in great detail the struggles of al-Mahdi Muhammad (Hebrew). Of singular importance is the date 2,028 of the Seleucid era (corresponding to 1717 CE) which is said to have been the twenty-eighth year of his reign, meaning, he rose to power officially in 1689.