Haqq ad-Din I

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Haqq ad-Din I (flourished 1328) was an amir of Ifat and the son of Nahwi b. Mansur b. Umar Walashma.

He was encouraged by Sultan Al-Nasir Muhammad of Egypt to attack Ethiopia. Amir Haqq captured an envoy of the Emperor of Ethiopia, Amda Seyon I, returning from Cairo, whom he attempted to forcibly convert to Islam, and when this failed killed the man.1

He was later defeated in battle by Amda Seyon I in 1328.2

[edit] Notes

  1. J. Spencer Trimingham, Islam in Ethiopia (Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege for the University Press, 1952), p. 71.
  2. G.W.B. Huntingford (translator), The Glorious Victories of Amda Seyon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965), p. 56.
Preceded by
Ali ibn Wali Asma		 Walashma dynasty Succeeded by
Sabr ad-Din I
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