Haqq ad-Din I

Haqq ad-Din
هاك اد الدين
Emir of the Sultanate of Ifat
Reignstarting 1328
Names
Haqq ad-Din I
DynastyWalashma dynasty
ReligionIslam

Haqq ad-Din I (Arabic: هاك اد الدين) (flourished 1328) was a sultan of the Ifat Sultanate and the son of Nahwi b. Mansur b. Umar Walashma. According to I.M. Lewis, Emir Haqq "turned the sporadic and disjointed forays of his predecessors into a full-scale war of aggression, and apparently for the first time, couched his call to arms in the form of a religious war against the Abyssinian 'infidel'".[1] According to the American University and Irving Kaplan, Haqq ad-Din was an ethnic Somali ruler.[2]

  1. ^ I.M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali, fourth edition (Oxford: James Currey, 2002), p. 25
  2. ^ Studies, American University (Washington, D. C. ) Foreign Area (1969). Area Handbook for Somalia: Co-authors: Irving Kaplan [et Al.] Research and Writing Were Completed on June 15, 1969. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 32.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)