Zaidi may refer to: * The

Zaidiyyah Zaydism () is a branch of Shia Islam that emerged in the eighth century following Zayd ibn Ali's unsuccessful rebellion against the Umayyad Caliphate. Zaydism is one of the three main branches of Shi'ism, with the other two being Twelverism ...

sect of Islam or Al-Zaidi, its adherents * Zaidi Imamate or

Yemeni Zaidi State The Qasimid State (), also known as the Zaidi Imamate, was a Zaidi-ruled independent state in the Greater Yemen region, which was founded by Imam al-Mansur al-Qasim in 1597, absorbed much of the Ottoman-ruled Yemen Eyalet by 1628, and then co ...

, kingdom in Yemen (1597–1849) * Al-Zaidi, Arab descendants of Zayd ibn Ali * Zaidi Wasitis, people with the surname Zaidi, South Asian descendants of Zayd ibn Ali, from Wasit, Iraq, followers of Twelver or ''Athnā‘ashariyyah'' (Ja'fari jurisprudence) ** Zaidi Al Wasti, another surname found among the same people * Yiddish informal title for

grandfather Grandparents, individually known as grandmother and grandfather, or Grandma and Grandpa, are the parents of a person's father or mother – paternal or maternal. Every sexually reproducing living organism who is not a genetic chimera has a m ...

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