The Mawza Exile (Hebrew: גלות מוזע, ğalūt mawzaʻ;‎ 1679–1680) is an event experienced by the Jews of Yemen, [1] [2] in which Jews living in nearly all cities and towns throughout Yemen were banished by decree of the king, Imām al-Mahdi Ahmad, and sent to a dry and barren region of the country named Mawzaʻ.

2017年5月11日 · Yemenite poet Shalom Shabazi, an eyewitness to the exile, wrote: “ [Mawza’] is…a place of monstrous beasts and every kind of lion.” Exiled Jews died in vast numbers from hunger, thirst, and...

To many scholars, the Mawza' exile seems every bit as lachrymose as the persecutions half a millennium earlier that prompted Maimonides to pen his fa-mous epistle. In this instance, Jews were not forcibly converted, but rather were forced from their homes and driven to the southwestern Yemeni town of Mawza', inland from the Red Sea port of Mocha.

Jewish Exile [ edit ] During the rise of the expansion of the Zaydi state when Mawza was part of the kingdom, most of the Yemenite Jews were expelled to Mawza' (1679-1680) in what became known by Yemenite Jews as the Mawza Exile .

In 1679, under the rule of Al-Mahdi Ahmad, Jews were expelled en masse from all parts of Yemen to the distant province of Mawza, in what was known as the Mawza Exile, when many Jews died of starvation and disease as a consequence.

2005年9月7日 · > The Mawzaע Exile at the Juncture of Zaydi and Ottoman... Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2005. Among scholars of Jewish communities under Islamic rule, Yemen has gained a poor reputation for treatment of its ancient Jewish minority in comparison with other predominantly Muslim societies.

2010年10月21日 · The Mawza Exile: The process of the Mawza Exile begins first with the Qasidim Imam, King al-Mutawakkil Isma'il, who had grown increasingly wary of Jews in his kingdom. The king would issue increasingly severe decrees against the Jews, such as the 1667 Atarot decree which banned Yemenite Jewry from wearing their …

2025年2月8日 · Shabazi wrote a kinah (lamentation) for recitation during the Ninth of Av, recalling the terrible exile of Jews in his lifetime (known as the Exile of Mawza) from all cities and towns in Yemen to an inhospitable desert called Mawza, during which time the Jews were banished there a full 20% of their number perished.

The Mawza Exile is considered the single most traumatic event experienced collectively by the Jews of Yemen, in which Jews living in nearly all cities and towns throughout Yemen were banished by decree of the king, Imām al-Mahdi Ahmad, and sent to a dry and barren region of the country named Mawzaʻ to withstand their fate or to die.

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