Sultan Muhammad Shams ud-din Iskandar II was the
Sultan of the Maldives
Maldives was turned into a Sultanate in 1153 when the Buddhist King Dhovemi converted to Islam. Prior to that the Maldives was a Buddhist Kingdom, a Hindu Kingdom and before that a matriarchal society with each atoll ruled by a chief queen ...
in 1774.
His father was Husain Bodu Dorimena Kilegefan. He abdicated in 1774 and was succeeded by
Muhammad Mu'iz ud-din.
He started building the Kalhuvakaru Mosque in 1774.
18th-century sultans of the Maldives
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