Badi IV (reigned 1724–1762; died 1764), also known as Badi abu Shilluk, 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 ...

. He was the son of his predecessor, Nul. When Emperor Iyasu II of Ethiopia invaded his realm in 1738, the army of Sennar under the leadership of Hamis, a prince of

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, inflicted a significant defeat of the invaders at the Battle of the Dindar River. He was deposed by his son, Nasir, with the help of his vizier Sheikh Adelan and his brother Abu Kalec the governor of Kordofan. Badi fled to sanctuary in

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, where '' Ras'' Mikael Sehul became his mentor. Ras Mikael convinced Emperor Iyoas I to appoint him governor of the province of

Ras al-Fil Ras al-Fil (Arabic: lit. 'head of the elephant') was a former governorate of the Christian Ethiopian state, located to the west of the river Atbara and Mätämma near the Ethiopian-Sudanese border. Ras al-Fil seems to have been the principal m ...

, near the border with Sennar. However, despite the advice of ''Ras'' Wolde Leul, one of Iyoas' senior counselors, envoys from Sennar convinced Badi to return to Sennar where he was quietly murdered after an imprisonment of two years. The Scots explorer

James Bruce James Bruce of Kinnaird (14 December 1730 – 27 April 1794) was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who physically confirmed the source of the Blue Nile. He spent more than a dozen years in North and East Africa and in 1770 became the fir ...

adds that Badi was killed by Welled Hassan, the governor of Atbara; because Welled Hassan had killed the king "with a lance, whereas the only lawful instrument was a sword", the governor was afterwards put to death. One of the earliest existing charters for Sennar was issued in Badi's reign. It is a grant of immunity from taxes, dated A.H. 1145 (A.D. 1732-3), Badi gave to the '' faqih'' Bishara, confirming a similar grant given to his father, ''faqih'' Ali b. Bursi.Jay Spaulding
"A Charter of Sultan Bādī B. Nōl of Sinnar, 1145/1732-3"
''Sudanic Africa'', 13 (2002), pp. 37-40; also translated in P. M. Holt
"The Genealogy of a Sudanese Holy Family"
'' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies'', 44 (1981), pp. 268f

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