Zabid

Zabid

Infobox World Heritage Site
WHS = Historic Town of Zabid


State Party = YEM
Type = Cultural
Criteria = ii, iv, vi
ID = 611
Region = Arab States
Year = 1993
Session = 17th
Danger = 2000-
Link = http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/611

Zabid ( _ar. زبيد) (also spelled Zebid) is a town with an urban population of around 23,000 persons [World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS Zabid Joint Monitoring Mission, 17th - 26th January 2007] on Yemen's western coastal plain. The town, named after Wadi Zabid the wadi to its south, is one of the oldest towns in Yemen, it was the capital of Yemen from the 13th to the 15th century and a center of the Arab and Muslim world due in large part to its famed University of Zabid and being a center of Islamic education. It was the capital of the Ziyadid dynasty from 819–1018 and the Najahid dynasty from 1022–1158. ["Najahid Dynasty." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 14 Apr. 2006 .] Today, however, it is at the intellectual and economic margins of modern Yemen. [Eickelman, Dale F. "The Middle East and Central Asia." (Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River: 2002)]

Zabid has been declared a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO. Its Great Mosque occupies a prominent place in the town. The vestiges of its university can also be visited. In 2000, Zabid was listed on the List of World Heritage in Danger; the listing was made on the behest of the Yemeni government due to a state of poor upkeep and conservation.

References

External links

* [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/611 UNESCO World Heritage Site listing]
* [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9078175/Zabid Encyclopaedia Britannica, Zabid]


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