Umara al-Yamani, Yemeni poet and historian (born 1121)

Najm al-Dīn Umāra al-Ḥakamī al-Yamanī was a Sunni historian, jurist and poet of Yemen of great repute who was closely associated with the late Fatimid Caliphate of Egypt. He was executed by order of Saladin at Cairo on April 6, 1174 for his part in a conspiracy to restore Fatimid rule. His Tarikh al-Yaman is the earliest, and in respects the most important, history of Yemen from the Islamic era.

Year 1121 (MCXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 269 days remain until the end of the year.