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Husayn ibn Salamah
Husayn ibn Salamah was a Nubian freedman who served as regent and chief minister of the Ziyadid dynasty of Zabid in Yemen in the late 10th century. He held the real power in the state, built mosques and fortified towns, and constructed roads and wells linking Zabid with Mecca and Hadramawt.
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