Word: yahya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Imam Yahya of Yemen's death (TIME, March 1), rival contenders have been fighting a civil war for his desert imamate. An Arab League delegation, out from Cairo to investigate affairs in Yemen, has got no farther than Riyadh, capital of Saudi Arabia. There the delegates have shivered through the desert nights behind mud-brick walls, warmed only by their camel's-hair abayas (cloaks...
While the Arab Leaguers waited in Riyadh, the late Yahya's eldest son Prince Seif el Islam Ahmed captured the Yemenite capital of Sana. Ahmed el Wazir, who had proclaimed himself Imam after Yahya's death,, fled. Prince Ahmed, who had been his father's chosen heir all along, at last became Imam...
Death Revealed. Yahya, 77, Imam of Yemen; of undetermined causes; in Sana, Yemen (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Last week cables came from Aden to Cairo newspapers saying: "Our father Imam Yahya Hamid el Din has passed away. Ahmed el Waziry has been elected Imam and I am President of the Council." They were signed by Ibrahim. The Arab world wondered whether the Sword of Truth was sure of his facts. Perhaps Ibrahim's friends were trying again to oust Yahya. Last summer, a U.S. mission which visited Sana to sign a million-dollar loan agreement found the Imam in good health. He had recovered from an illness in 1946. But he had given up riding...
...London, Abdullah denied that his father was dead, cryptically added: "Conditions are unsettled and it's understandable that some extravagant reports might come from Yemen." At week's end, the secret of Yahya's mortal status and worldly successor was still hidden behind the mud-brick walls of his capital...