Sabr ad-Din I () was a
sultan of the
Ifat Sultanate
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. He was the son of
Nahwi bin Mansur bin Umar Walashma and younger brother of
Haqq ad-Din I.
Reign
Sabr ad-Din rallied his fellow
Muslims in a counter-offensive in early 1332 against the
Christian
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Ethiopians
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. However, the
Emperor
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Amda Seyon I
Amda Seyon I ( gez, ዐምደ ፡ ጽዮን , am, አምደ ፅዮን , "Pillar of Zion"), throne name Gebre Mesqel (ገብረ መስቀል ) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1314 to 1344 and a member of the Solomonic dynasty.
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defeated him in battle, then invaded a number of Islamic kingdoms, including
Dawaro and
Bale
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. This brought an end to the independent kingdoms of
Hadiya,
Fatager, Dawaro and
Ifat.
Sabr ad-Din was captured with his ally, King Haydara of Dawaro, and the two were imprisoned together. The Emperor
Amda Seyon
Amda Seyon I ( gez, ዐምደ ፡ ጽዮን , am, አምደ ፅዮን , "Pillar of Zion"), throne name Gebre Mesqel (ገብረ መስቀል ) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1314 to 1344 and a member of the Solomonic dynasty.
He is best known ...
appointed as his successor his brother,
Jamal ad-Din I.
[Taddesse Tamrat, ''Church and State in Ethiopia'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), p. 141.]
See also
*
Sabr ad-Din II
*
Walashma dynasty
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14th-century monarchs in Africa
Sultans of Ifat
14th-century Somalian people