Al-Hadi Izz ad-Din (1441 - April 18, 1495) was an imam of the Zaidi state in

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, who held the imamate in 1474–1495 in rivalry with other claimants. Izz ad-Din bin al-Hasan bin Ali was a grandson of the counter-imam al-Hadi Ali (d. 1432) and a seventh-generation descendant of imam al-Hadi Yahya (d. 1239). He proclaimed his

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(call for the imamate) in 1474, after the death of the former imam al-Mutawakkil al-Mutahhar. He was considered a forceful leader who revived some of the power of the

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imamate. He was also a man of learning. Among his works were a text about how to prepare for afterlife, and a treatise on

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of slaves as compensation for received injuries. Nevertheless, he had to contend with a number of other rivals for the title:

an-Nasir Muhammad Al-Malik an-Nasir Nasir ad-Din Muhammad ibn Qalawun ( ar, الملك الناصر ناصر الدين محمد بن قلاوون), commonly known as an-Nasir Muhammad ( ar, الناصر محمد), or by his kunya: Abu al-Ma'ali () or as Ibn Qal ...

(d. 1488), al-Mansur Muhammad (d. 1505) and al-Mu’ayyad Muhammad (d. 1503). At his death, he was buried in Rughafa. He sired eight sons, called an-Nasir al-Hasan, al-Husayn, Ahmad, al-Mahdi, Abdallah, Salah, Abdallah Junior, and Salah Junior.Imam Zaid bin Ali Cultural Foundation, http://www.izbacf.org/page_display.php?book_id=37&page_num=52 (in Arabic). Of these, an-Nasir al-Hasan then claimed the imamate.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hadi Izz Ad-Din 1441 births 1495 deaths Zaydi imams of Yemen 15th century in Yemen 15th-century Arabs

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