Abd al-Qadir II was a ruler of the

Kingdom of Sennar The Funj Sultanate, also known as Funjistan, Sultanate of Sennar (after its capital Sennar) or Blue Sultanate (due to the traditional Sudanese convention of referring to black people as blue) (), was a monarchy in what is now Sudan, northwester ...

(1603/4 - 1606). According to

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, he was the son of

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, whom Bruce describes as "a weak and ill-inclined man". While he was ruler of Sennar, Emperor

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sent to Abd al-Qadir a ''nagarit'', or kettle-drum, richly decorated with gold, which was one of the traditional emblems of an Ethiopian

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or king; in return, Abd al-Qadir sent Susenyos a trained hunting

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. Shortly after this diplomatic exchange, he was deposed by his brother Adlan. At some point following his deposition from the throne in 1606, Emperor

appointed him governor of Chilga (also known as Ayikel), an important market town near the Ethiopian border with Sennar.Richard Pankhurst, ''The Ethiopian Borderlands'' (Lawrenceville: Red Sea Press, 1997), p. 369.

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