Audhali ( ' or '), or the Audhali Sultanate ( '), was a state in the
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Aden Protectorate
The Aden Protectorate ( ') was a British protectorate in southern Arabia. The protectorate evolved in the hinterland of the port of Aden and in the Hadhramaut after the conquest of Aden by the Bombay Presidency of British India in January ...
. It was a founding member of the
Federation of Arab Emirates of the South
The Federation of the Emirates of South Arabia ( ''Ittiḥād ʾImārāt al-Janūb al-ʿArabiyy'') was an organization of State (polity), states within the British Empire, British Aden Protectorate in what would become South Yemen. The Federati ...
in 1959 and its successor, the
Federation of South Arabia
The Federation of South Arabia (FSA; ') was a federal state under British protectorate, British protection in what would become South Yemen. Its capital was Aden.
History
Originally formed on April 4, 1962 from 15 states of the Federation ...
, in 1963. Its capital was
Zarah.
[Paul Dresch. ''A History of Modern Yemen.'' Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000]
The Audhali country was of considerable extent and lay between the
Fadhli on the south,
Aulaqi on the east and
Yafai on the west.
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History
The date of the foundation of the Sultanate is uncertain.
The Sultan made overtures for treaty relations with the British in 1902, but he was not at the time considered of sufficient importance to be encouraged.
In 1903, owing to their supposed complicity with the Ahl Am Saidi of Dathina in an attack on a British survey party, the Audhali were excluded from Aden; but the overtures were continued, and in September 1914 a Protectorate Treaty was concluded with Sultan Qasim bin Ahmed. He was killed in September 1928 by the brothers Muhammad and Husein Jabil, of another branch of the family, and was succeeded by the son of the latter, Salih, a minor, under the regency of his uncle Muhammad.
In 1923 the Imam’s troops invaded and occupied the highland portion of Audhali territory known as Adh Dhahir. In 1925, in consequence of their encroaching still further and occupying the lowland portion, known as Al Kor, and the commercial town of
Lodar together with the adjoining village of Al Kubeida where the Sultan resided, British air action was taken against them with tribal co-operation and they were compelled to withdraw from the lowland portion, but as of 1931, they were still in possession of the highlands.
Ahmed, the son of the murdered Sultan, and Qasim bin Abdulla, his cousin, had formed a rival faction to the brothers Jabil and have thrown in their lot with the Amil of Beidha, under the Imam, taking up their residence at Aryab in the highlands.
Its last sultan, Salih ibn al Husayn ibn Jabil Al Audhali, was deposed and his state was abolished in 1967 upon the founding of the
People's Republic of South Yemen
South Yemen, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, abbreviated to Democratic Yemen, was a country in South Arabia that existed in what is now southeast Yemen from 1967 until its unification with the Yemen Arab Republic in 199 ...
. The area is now part of the Republic of
Yemen
Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, the north, Oman to Oman–Yemen border, the northeast, the south-eastern part ...
.
Rulers
The rulers of the `Awdhali Sultanate had the style of ''Sultan al-Saltana al-`Awdhaliyya''.
Sultans
*c.1750 - 1780 Salih al-`Awdhali Ibn al-Awsaji
*c.1780 - 1820 Ja`bil ibn Salih al-`Awdhali ibn al-Awsaji
*c.1820 - 1870 Ahmad ibn Salih al-`Awdhali ibn al-Awsaji
*1870 - 1890 Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-`Awdhali ibn al-Awsaji
*1890 - 1900 Hamid ibn Ja`bil al-`Awdhali ibn al-Awsaji
*1900 - 3 Sep 1928 al-Qasim ibn Hamid al-`Awdhali ibn al-Awsaji
*1928 - Sep 1967 Salih ibn al-Husayn ibn Ja`bil al-`Awdhali ibn al-Awsaji
*1928 - 19.. Muhammad Ja`bil -Regent
See also
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Aden Protectorate
The Aden Protectorate ( ') was a British protectorate in southern Arabia. The protectorate evolved in the hinterland of the port of Aden and in the Hadhramaut after the conquest of Aden by the Bombay Presidency of British India in January ...
References
External links
Map of Arabia (1905-1923) including the states of Aden Protectorate
States in the Aden Protectorate
Federation of South Arabia
Former sultanates
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