| Official Name: | Mudhaykhirah |
| Other Name: | Qalamah |
| Native Name: | Arabic: مذيخرة |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Pushpin Map: | Yemen |
| Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Yemen |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Governorate |
| Subdivision Name1: | Ibb |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Mudhaykhirah |
| Subdivision Type3: | Subdistrict |
| Subdivision Name3: | Mudhaykhirah |
| Population As Of: | 2004 |
| Population Total: | 1,245 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
| Timezone: | AST |
| Utc Offset: | +3 |
| Coordinates: | 13.8855°N 101.03°W |
Mudhaykhirah is a village in southwestern Yemen. It is administratively a part of the Mudhaykhirah subdistrict in Mudhaykhirah District, Ibb Governorate. The village had a population of 1,245 according to the 2004 census.[1]
Various accounts are given regarding the origins of Mudhaykirah. According to Umara ibn Abi al-Hasan al-Yamani, the town was founded by a mawla of the Ziyadid dynasty in the ninth century; Baha al-Din al-Janadi, on the other hand, claims that it was built by a member of the Banu Manakh, who conquered the area during the reign of the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun .[2]
In 905 Mudhaykhirah was captured by the Isma'ili missionary (da'i) Ali ibn al-Fadl al-Jayshani, who expelled and killed its Manakhi ruler in battle. The town subsequently served as the base of Ali's operations for the remainder of his career. A short time after Ibn al-Fadl's death in 915, the town was besieged and taken by the Yu'firids and devastated in the process; al-Janadi, writing in the fourteenth century, remarked that it remained in a ruined state from that point until his own time.[3] [4]
The town was also known to the tenth-century geographer Ibn Hawqal as a source of wars plants for textile dyes.[5]