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Tarim, Yemen

Tarim is a town in the Wadi Hadramawt in eastern Yemen, long the religious centre of the valley. It is the seat of Ba 'Alawi sayyid families and of Shafi'i Sufi scholarship, with many mosques and the Dar al-Mustafa school. It was ruled with Seiyun by the Kathiri sultans.

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Kathiri Sultanate

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Tarim, Yemen. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/tarim-yemen
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