Muhammed VIII, Sultan of Granada

Muhammed VIII (1411–1431), common alternative spelling Muhammad, known as "the left handed", was the fourteenth Nasrid ruler of the Moorish Emirate of Granada in Al-Andalus on the Iberian Peninsula.

He, as eldest son, became Sultan after the death of his father Yusuf III.^[1] His first reign lasted from 1417 to 1419, and his second from 1427 to 1429.^[2] Immediately after coming to the throne, Muhammed renewed the treaties between Granada, Castile and Morocco, and sent troops to help the Moroccans in the Siege of Ceuta in 1418.

References

↑ E.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936, Volume 1, M. Th. Houtsama, Leiden 1988, p. 880
↑ The new Islamic dynasties: a chronological and genealogical manual, Clifford Edmund Bosworth, New York 2004, p. 22

Regnal titles
Muhammed VIII, Sultan of Granada Nasrid dynasty Cadet branch of the Banu Khazraj Born: 1411 Died: 1431
Preceded by Yusuf III	Sultan of Granada 1417–1419	Succeeded by Muhammed IX
Preceded by Muhammed IX	Sultan of Granada 1427–1429	Succeeded by Muhammed IX

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