Ibb is a city in Yemen, the capital of Ibb Governorate, located about 117 km northeast of Mokha and 194 km south of Sanaa. A market town and administrative centre developed during the Ottoman Empire,
The Zurayʿid dynasty, were a Banu Hamdan ruling dynasty based in Yemen in the time between 1083 and 1174. The centre of its power was Aden. The Zurayids suffered the same fate as the Hamdanid sultans,