Zabid (Arabic: زَبِيد) (also spelled Zabīd, Zabeed and Zebid) is a town with an urban population of around 52,590 people, located on Yemen's western coastal plain.

She was sequestered in a secret prison in Zabid, and the severed head of her spouse was reportedly planted on a pole visible from her cell.

Ali ibn Mahdi, a native of the Yemeni highlands, founded the Mahdid dynasty in the Tihama region.

[5] Out of desperation, the people of Zabid sought assistance from the Zaydi imam Ahmed ibn Sulayman against al-Himyari.

After the Ayyubids took control of Yemen in 1174, Zabid continued to be the economic and political center of the region.

[1] Under the Rasulid dynasty (1229–1454), the official capital was moved to Ta'izz but the rulers continued to use Zabid as a winter residence.

[6] Hadım Suleiman Pasha extended the Ottoman Empire's authority to include Zabid in 1539.

[8] Muhammad Abdul-Wali's novel Sana'a: An Open City tells the story of a young man who traveled to Zabid in the mid-20th century and was surprised to find the town had become a backwater.

[15] The British cite tribal disputes as dampening the economy in Zabid during the early 20th century.