Muhammad ibn Azhar ad-Din

Muhammad ibn Azhar ad-Din
محمد بن الأزهر اد الدين
Sultan
Sultan of the Adal Sultanate
1st reign1488–1490[1]
PredecessorMuhammad ibn Badlay
SuccessorMahfuz
2nd reign1517-1518
PredecessorMahfuz
SuccessorAbun Adashe
DynastyWalashma dynasty
ReligionIslam

Muhammad ibn Azhar ad-Din (Arabic: محمد بن الأزهر الدين) (reigned 1488–1518) was a Sultan of the Adal Sultanate. 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.[2]

  1. ^ Hassen, Mohammed (2004). "Review of Futuh Al-Habaša: The Conquest of Abyssinia [16th Century]". International Journal of Ethiopian Studies. 1 (2): 177–193. ISSN 1543-4133.
  2. ^ 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.