Although Zaydi Islam originated in the 8th century in Kufah (now in Iraq), Imam Yaḥyā al-Hādī ilā al-Ḥāqq I was the effective founder of the Zaydi Muslim community in Yemen. He ruled from Saada in the northern highlands from 893 to 911. Under his successors, the Zaydi dominion briefly expanded across most of eastern Arabia, reaching from the Hejaz to southern Yemen.
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