Haqq ad-Din II

Haqq ad-Din II
حق الدين الثاني
Sultan of Ifat
Reignlate 14th century
PredecessorAhmed Harb 'Arad
SuccessorSa'ad ad-Din II
Names
Haqq ad-Din II
DynastyWalashma dynasty
ReligionIslam

Haqq ad-Din II (Arabic: حق الدين الثاني) (ruled late 14th century) was a Sultan of the Ifat Sultanate, the brother of Sa'ad ad-Din II, and the son of Ahmad ibn Ali.[1]

Haqq was the first Sultan to move the capital of Ifat to the Harar plateau (Adal) hence Taddesse Tamrat credits him as "the founder of the kingdom of Adal as we know it in its protracted struggle with the Christian kingdom [of Abyssinia]"[2][3]

  1. ^ Haqq ad-Din's parentage is disputed in the secondary literature: J. Spencer Trimingham in his Islam in Ethiopia (Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege for the University Press, 1952) at p. 74 states that he was the son of Muhammed ibn Walashma, but offers no further details; Taddesse Tamrat in his Church and State in Ethiopia (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972) at p. 147 says he was the son of Ahmad ibn Ali, and his account of Haqq ad-Din depends on this relationship. As a result, Taddesse Tamrat's version is followed here.
  2. ^ Taddesse Tamrat, Church and State, p. 285
  3. ^ The Cambridge History of Africa (PDF). Cambridge University Press. p. 149.