Sultan Muhammad Imaaduddeen V (1884–1920) was the

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of the

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from 1892 to 1893 for five months. The son of Sultan Ibrahim Nooraddeen and Bodugaluge Didi of Machchangoalhi Ganduvaru, he became sultan at 8 years old, after the death of his father. He was eventually succeeded by his older half-brother,

Muhammad Shamsuddeen III Sultan Muhammad Shamsuddeen Iskander III, , ( Dhivehi: ސުލްޠާން މުޙައްމަދު ޝަމްސުއްދީން; 20 October 1879 – 12 March 1935), son of Ibrahim Nooraddeen and Kakaage Don Goma, was the Sultan of the Maldives first from ...

Appointment and deposition

Despite having an older half-brother, Imaaduddeen V, was appointed as sultan by a decree of the Council of Ministers (''Raskan-hingaa Majlis'') headed by Ibrahim Didi, brother-in-law to the late sultan Nooraddeen. Meanwhile, a vigorous protest was handed down to the Ceylon Governor in

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by Muhammed Didi, the brother of Kakaage Don Goma, one of the late Sultan Nooraddeen's wives. He argued that ''the Law of Succession in the Maldive Islands'' which supported lineal

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had been breached, and that his great-nephew Muhammed Shamsuddeen (then Kakaage Doshi Mannipulhu) who was 14, and thus the eldest son of the late Sultan, should be the legitimate heir to the throne. Five months later, Imaaduddeen was deposed by

as the Sultan of the Maldives. He died during his brother's reign.

References

19th-century sultans of the Maldives 1884 births 1920 deaths Monarchs who abdicated {{Maldives-bio-stub