Qu'aiti-dynasty sultanate that rose in the mid-19th century to control coastal and central Hadhramaut in southeastern Yemen, the larger of the two Hadhrami sultanates; funded partly by Qu'aiti wealth from service in the Nizam of Hyderabad's army in India.
Signed a protectorate treaty with Britain in 1888 (Aden Protectorate), later part of the Protectorate of South Arabia; overrun by the National Liberation Front and integrated into independent South Yemen in November 1967.
Brill scholarly history of Hadhramaut covering the rise of the Qu'aiti sultanate, its Hyderabad connection and the British protectorate