Sultan Sultan Sultan is a title with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic language abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", "rulership", and "dictatorship", derived from the masdar سلطة , meaning "authority" or "power". Later, it came to be used as the title of certain rulers who...	Reign Reign A reign is the term used to describe the period of a person's or dynasty's occupation of the office of monarch of a nation or of a people . In most hereditary monarchies and some elective monarchies A reign is the term used to describe the period of a person's or dynasty's occupation of the office...
al-Mansur Umar I	1229–1250
al-Muzaffar Yusuf I	1250–1295
al-Ashraf Umar II	1295–1296
al-Mu'ayyad Da'ud	1296–1322
al-Mujahid Ali	1322–1363
al-Afdal al-Abbas Al-Afdal al-Abbas Al-Afdal al-Abbas was a ruler of Yemen and a member of the Turkic Rasulid dynasty. He produced a multilingual "dictionary" defining terms in Arabic, Persian language, Turkic, Greek, Armenian, and Mongolian language....	1363–1377
al-Ashraf Isma'il I	1377–1400
an-Nasir Ahmad	1400–1424
al-Mansur Abdullah	1424–1427
al-Ashraf Isma'il II	1427–1428
az-Zahir Yahya	1428–1439
al-Ashraf Isma'il III	1439–1442
al-Muzaffar Yusuf II	1442

The Rasulid was a Muslim

Muslim

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 dynasty

Dynasty

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 that ruled Yemen

Yemen

The Republic of Yemen , commonly known as Yemen , is a country located in the Middle East, occupying the southwestern to southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north, the Red Sea to the west, and Oman to the east....

 and Hadhramaut

Hadhramaut

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 from 1229 to 1454. The Rasulids assumed power after the Egypt

Egypt

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ian Ayyubid

Ayyubid dynasty

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 left the southern province

Province

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s of the Arabian Peninsula

Arabian Peninsula

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.

The Rasulid descended from Rasul (his real name is Muhammad ibn Harun) whose lineage could be traced back to Jabalah ibn al-Aiham

Jabalah ibn al-Aiham

Jabalah Ibn Al-Aiham was the last ruler of the Ghassanid state in Syria and Jordan in the seventh century AD. He commanded a Christian Arab army in the Battle of Yarmouk in 636. After the Muslim conquest of the Levant he converted to Islam around the year 638...

 the last Ghassanid

Ghassanids

The Ghassanids were a group of South Arabian Christian tribes that emigrated in the early 3rd century from Yemen to Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and the Holy Land....

 king, and they were mistakenly identified as Turkmen

Turkmen people

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 because their Turkic language Rasul gained living in the land of the Turks. Rasul came to Yemen around 1180 while serving as a messenger for an Abbasid

Abbasid

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 caliph

Caliph

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. His son Ali was governor of Mecca

Mecca

Mecca is a city in the Hijaz and the capital of Makkah province in Saudi Arabia. The city is located inland from Jeddah in a narrow valley at a height of above sea level...

 for a time, and his grandson Umar bin Ali was the first sultan

Sultan

Sultan is a title with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic language abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", "rulership", and "dictatorship", derived from the masdar سلطة , meaning "authority" or "power". Later, it came to be used as the title of certain rulers who...

 of the Rasulid dynasty.

Rasūl is Arabic

Arabic language

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 for messenger (although in this context it does not carry the Islamic prophet

Prophets of Islam

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 significance); during their reign, however, the Rasulids claimed to be descendants of the legendary patriarch

Patriarch

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Qahtan.