Sabr ad-Din I

Sabr ad-Din
الصبر اد الدين
Emir of the Ifat Sultanate
Reign flourished 1332
Full name
Sabr ad-Din I
Dynasty Walashma dynasty
Father Nahwi bin Mansur bin Umar Walashma
Religion Islam

Sabr ad-Din I (fl. 1332) was a Somali sultan of the Ifat Sultanate. He was the son of Nahwi bin Mansur bin Umar Walashma and younger brother of Haqq ad-Din I.

Reign

Sabr ad-Din rallied his fellow Muslims in a counter-offensive in early 1332 against the Christian Abyssinians. However, the Emperor Amda Seyon I defeated him in battle, then invaded a number of Islamic kingdoms, including Dawaro and Bale. This brought an end to the independent kingdoms of Hadiya, Fatagar, Dawaro and Ifat.[1]

Sabr ad-Din was captured with his ally, King Haydara of Dawaro, and the two were imprisoned together. The Emperor Amda Seyon appointed as his successor his brother, Jamal ad-Din I.[2]

See also

Notes

  1. J. Spencer Trimingham, Islam in Ethiopia (Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege for the University Press, 1952), p. 71.
  2. Taddesse Tamrat, Church and State in Ethiopia (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), p. 141.
Preceded by
Haqq ad-Din I
Walashma dynasty Succeeded by
Jamal ad-Din I
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