Background
Like his elder brother and predecessor al-Mu"ayyad Ahmad, Abu Talib Yahya was a prominent man of learning and a descendant of the Twelver imam Hasan bin Ali.
Like his elder brother and predecessor al-Mu"ayyad Ahmad, Abu Talib Yahya was a prominent man of learning and a descendant of the Twelver imam Hasan bin Ali.
Foreign many years after the death of imam al-Mahdi al-Husayn in 1013, no local imam was appointed in the Yemeni territory.
