| Sa'ad ad-Din II سعد الدين زنكي | |||||
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| Sultan of the Sultanate of Ifat | |||||
| Reign | 1386/7 – 1402/3 or 1410 CE (788 – 805 or 817 AH) | ||||
| Predecessor | Haqq ad-Din II | ||||
| Successor | Sabr ad-Din III | ||||
| Died | 1403 or 1410 Zeila Archipelago | ||||
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| Dynasty | Walashma dynasty | ||||
| Religion | Islam | ||||
Sa'ad ad-Din II (Arabic: سعد الدين زنكي), reigned c. 1386 – c. 1403 or c. 1410,[1] was a Sultan of the Ifat Sultanate. He was the brother of Haqq ad-Din II, and the father of Mansur ad-Din, Sabr ad-Din II and Badlay ibn Sa'ad ad-Din. The historian Richard Pankhurst describes him as "the last great ruler of Ifat."[2][3]
- ^ Trimingham, J. Spencer (2013) [1952]. Islam in Ethiopia. London: Routledge. p. 74. ISBN 9781136970221. Trimingham reports that he died either in 805 AH / 1402-3 CE during the reign of Dawit I (according to al-Maqrizi) or in 817 AH / 1414-5 during the reign of Yeshaq I (according to a History of the Walashmaʿ edited by Cerulli 1931, p. 45).
- ^ Richard Pankhurst, The Ethiopian Borderlands (Lawrenceville: Red Sea Press, 1997), p. 50.
- ^ Asafa Jalata, State Crises, Globalisation, And National Movements In North-east Africa page 3-4
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