Mausoleum of Hatim al-Hamidi at Al-Hutayb

The Mausoleum of Hatim al-Hamidi stands at Al-Hutayb in Jabal Haraz, a dramatic mountain region southwest of Sana’a known for fortified settlements built into steep rocky terrain. UNESCO’s Tentative List description of Jabal Haraz identifies Al-Hutayb as a village constructed on a red-sandstone platform and specifically records the mausoleum of Hatim al-Hamidi, whom it describes as the third Yemeni da‘i, with a twelfth-century association.

The shrine is therefore significant not only as a local monument but as a place connected with the history of Isma‘ili religious leadership in Yemen. Its contemporary sacred importance is documented through pilgrimage. UNESCO records Bohra devotees coming to Al-Hutayb from India, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Madagascar to pray and recollect at the mausoleum.

The same source notes that Isma‘ili faithful improved roads and paved streets to accommodate pilgrims while preserving the landscape, evidence of the continuing importance of the shrine to an international devotional community. This record treats pilgrimage and ziyara as documented religious practice; it does not attach miracle, healing or supernatural claims to the mausoleum because no authoritative source used in this review established them.

Jabal Haraz has been on Yemen’s UNESCO Tentative List since 2002, but this does not mean the mausoleum itself is an inscribed World Heritage Site.