Muhammad ibn Badlay

Muhammad ibn Badlay محمد بن بادلاي
Sultan of the Sultanate of Adal
Reign	1445–1471
Dynasty	Walashma dynasty
Religious beliefs	Islam

Muhammad ibn Badlay (Arabic: محمد بن بادلاي‎) (reigned 1445–1471) was a Sultan of the Sultanate of Adal. He was the son of Badlay ibn Sa'ad ad-Din.^[1]

Reign

The Arab writer al-Tagrebirdi reports that Sultan Muhammed sent an embassy to Cairo in 1452, which may have been an unsuccessful appeal for help against Ethiopia.^[2] In any case, Sultan Muhammad reversed the policy of his predecessors, making a truce with the Emperor of Ethiopia Baeda Maryam, and during his reign lived in peace with the Ethiopians.^[3]

See also

• Walashma dynasty

Notes

1. ^ Sihab ad-Din Ahmad bin 'Abd al-Qader, Futuh al-Habasa: The conquest of Ethiopia, translated by Paul Lester Stenhouse with annotations by Richard Pankhurst (Hollywood: Tsehai, 2003), p. 7. The Futuh mentions that he had a brother, Shams ad-Din bin Badlay, who had no issue. (ibid., p.8).
2. ^ Richard Pankhurst, The Ethiopian Borderlands (Lawrenceville: Red Sea Press, 1997), p. 119
3. ^ J. Spencer Trimingham, Islam in Ethiopia (Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege for the University Press, 1952), p. 81.

Preceded by Badlay ibn Sa'ad ad-Din

Walashma dynasty

Succeeded by Shams ad-Din ibn Muhammad