Muhammad ibn Badlay

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Muhammad ibn Badlay (reigned 1445 - 1471) was a sultan of Adal.

Sultan Muhammad reversed the policy of his predecessors, and made a truce with the Emperor of Ethiopia Baeda Maryam, and during his reign lived in peace with the Ethiopians.[1] He was the son of Badlay ibn Sa'ad ad-Din.[2]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ J. Spencer Trimingham, Islam in Ethiopia (Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege for the University Press, 1952), p. 81.
  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), p. 7. The Futuh mentions that he had a brother, Shams ad-Din bin Badlay, who had no issue. (ibid., p.8).
Preceded by:
Badlay ibn Sa'ad ad-Din		 Walashma dynasty Succeeded by:
Shams ad-Din ibn Muhammad
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