Катири Сұлтандығы: Йемен тарихындағы бір әулеттің өркендеуі мен құлдырауы

1395–1967 sultanate in modern day Yemen

Kathiri (ٱلْكَثِيْرِي), officially the Hadhrami Kathiri Dynasty in Seiyun or the Sultanate of Seiyun (ٱلسَّلْطَنَة ٱلْكَثِيْرِيَّة سَيْؤُوْن), was a sultanate in the Hadhramaut region of the southern Arabian Peninsula, in what is now part of Yemen and the Dhofari region of Oman.

The Kathiri state was established in 1395 by Badr as Sahab ibn al Habrali Bu Tuwairik, who ruled until c. 1430. The Kathiri conquered Ash Shihr in the 1460s. The country inhabited by this tribe was formerly extensive, reaching from the Aulaqi districts on the west to the Maliri tribe on the east, and including the seaports of Mukalla and Shihr. Civil wars led to the interference of the Yafai, and much of the Kathiri territory came under the sway of the Kasadi and Qu'aiti. The Kathiris were eventually restricted to a small inland portion of Hadhramaut with their capital at Seiyun (Say'un). At the end of 1883, Sultan Abdulla bin Salih, one of the Kathiri Shaikhs, visited the Resident at Aden. His principal object was to ascertain what attitude the British Government would maintain in the event of the Kathiri attacking the Qu'aiti with a view to repossessing themselves of the ports of Shihr and Mukalla. Abdulla bin Salih also visited Zanzibar with intent to intrigue with the ex Naqib of Mukalla, from whom however, he failed to obtain any material assistance. The first prime minister in the history of East Timor, Mar'ī al Kathīrī, is a third generation descendant of immigrants from Kathiri, part of a significant migration of Hadhramis to Southeast Asia in the 19th and 20th centuries. This is reflected in his name 'Alkatiri'. The Indonesian human rights activist Munir Said Thalib is also a descendant of immigrants from the Kathiris.