Muhammad ibn Azhar ad-Din

Muhammad ibn Azhar ad-Din
محمد بن الأزهر اد الدين
Sultan of the Sultanate of Adal
Reign1488–1518
PredecessorMuhammad ibn Badlay
SuccessorAbun Adashe
DynastyWalashma dynasty
ReligionIslam

Muhammad ibn Azhar ad-Din (Arabic: محمد بن الأزهر الدين) (reigned 1488–1518) was a Sultan of the Sultanate of Adal. Sihab ad-Din Ahmad states in his Futuh al-Habasha that he was the son of Azhar, the second son of Abu Bakr, one of the ten sons of Sa'ad ad-Din II, and ruled for 30 years.[1]

  1. ^ Sihab ad-Din Ahmad bin 'Abd al-Qader, Futuh al-Habasa: The conquest of Ethiopia, translated by Paul Lester Stenhouse with annotations by Richard Pankhurst (Hollywood: Tsehai, 2003), pp. 7f.

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