Sa'ad ad-Din II

Sa'ad ad-Din II
سعد الدين زنكي
Sultan of the Sultanate of Ifat
Lord of Jabarta[1]
Reign1386/7 – 1402/3 or 1410 CE
(788 – 805 or 817 AH)
PredecessorHaqq ad-Din II
SuccessorSabr ad-Din III
Died1403 or 1410
Zeila Archipelago
IssueSabr ad-Din
Mansur ad-Din
Muhammad
Jamal ad-Din
Badlay
Khayr ad-Din
Ahmed
Abu Bakr
Names
Abu Al Barakat Sa'ad ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Sabr ad-Din Al Jabarti[2]
DynastyWalashma dynasty
ReligionIslam

Sa'ad ad-Din II (Arabic: سعد الدين زنكي), reigned c. 1386 – c. 1403 or c. 1410,[3] 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."[4][5]

  1. ^ Cerulli, Enrico (2013). Islam: Yesterday and Today. p. 333.
  2. ^ Al Maqrizi. الإلمام بأخبار من بأرض الحبشة من ملوك الإسلام [The book of the true knowledge of the History of the Muslim Kings in Ethiopia] (in Arabic). p. 31.
  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).
  4. ^ Richard Pankhurst, The Ethiopian Borderlands (Lawrenceville: Red Sea Press, 1997), p. 50.
  5. ^ Asafa Jalata, State Crises, Globalisation, And National Movements In North-east Africa page 3-4

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