| Native Name: | Arabic: مشيخة الضُبي |
| Conventional Long Name: | Dhubi Sheikdom |
| Common Name: | Dhubi |
| Subdivision: | State |
| Nation: | the Protectorate of South Arabia |
| Era: | 20th century |
| Government Type: | Sheikhdom |
| Year Start: | 18th century |
| Year End: | 1967 |
| P1: | Federation of Arab Emirates of the South |
| S1: | South Yemen |
| Flag S1: | Flag of South Yemen.svg |
| Image Map Caption: | Map of the Federation of South Arabia |
Al-Dhubi, Al-Dubi (Dhubī), or the Dhubi Sheikhdom (Mashyakhat ad-Dhubī), was a small state in the British Aden Protectorate. Dhubi was located between Mawsata in the southwest, Hadrami in the northeast, Lower Yafa in the south and Upper Yafa in the north.
Its last sheikh was deposed in 1967 upon the founding of the People's Republic of South Yemen and the area is now part of the Republic of Yemen.[1]
Al-Dhubi was one of the five sheikhdoms of Upper Yafa.
It entered into a protectorate treaty with Britain on 11 May 1903.[2]
It was part nominally of the Western Aden Protectorate.
Al-Dhubi never joined the Federation of South Arabia, but became part of the Protectorate of South Arabia between 1963 and 1967.[3]
Al-Dhubi was ruled by sheikhs who bore the title Shaykh al-Mashyakha ad-Dhubiyya.[4]
