title: “Like the Ark of Nuh”: Sayyids in the Leadership of the Huthi Movement
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metadata.value: Bokov, Timofey A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-08-10T20:20:10Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-08-10T20:20:10Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-03
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metadata.value: Bokov T. A. “Like the Ark of Nuh”: Sayyids in the Leadership of the Huthi Movement. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 1, pp. 118–132. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.108 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.108
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/43729
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metadata.value: The article examines the phenomenon of overrepresentation of sayyids (descendants of the
  Prophet Muhammad) in the Huthi movement in the 2000s. It is shown that though sayyids’
  total share among the population of the northwestern Yemen was about 5 % they occupied
  most of the top positions in the movement and constituted about half of its military command.
  The trajectories of sayyid Abd al-Malik al-Huthi’s ascent to power and shaykh Abdullah
  al-Razzami’s descent from it are tracked down. It is demonstrated that such a prominent role
  of sayyids is consistent with a traditional local model of leadership, which can be traced back
  to the 1st millennium AD, and in which (quasi)state entities are managed either by tribesmen
  who have renounced their tribal identity, or by non-tribal sayyids. Other reasons of the overrepresentation
  of sayyids in the Movement’s leadership are considered: 1) family ties of some
  leaders with Hussayn al-Huthi; 2) authority and experience acquired by many of sayyids in the
  1980s–1990s through active work undertaken in order to protect Zaydism from Salafi threat
  and state pressure; 3) reluctance of shaykhs who were affiliated with the government and/or
  received Saudi subsidies to support the anti-government and anti-Salafi sentiment of their
  fellow tribesmen, which prompted the latter to seek support from the sayyids. It is suggested
  that the presence of a large number of potential leaders of sayyid origin in the Huthi movement
  was one of the key factors that facilitated its transformation from a small group into
  a significant national actor in the 2000s.
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 15; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Yemen
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Huthis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Huthi Movement
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sayyids
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: People of the House
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ahl al-Bayt
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: “Like the Ark of Nuh”: Sayyids in the Leadership of the Huthi Movement
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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