Badlay ibn Sa'ad ad-Din

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Badlāy ibn Saʿd ad-Dīn
بدلاي بن سعد الدين
Sultan
Sultan of the Adal Sultanate
Reign1433-1445
PredecessorJamal ad-Din II
SuccessorMuhammad ibn Badlay
Died25 December 1445
Dawaro
Names
Badlay ibn Sa'ad ad-Din II
DynastyWalashma dynasty
ReligionIslam

Badlāy ibn Saʿd ad-Dīn II (

Arabic: بدلاي بن سعد الدين) (also known as Shihāb ad-Din Aḥmad Badlāy,[1][2] Arwe Badlay – "Badlay the Beast" (died 25 December 1445) was a Sultan of the Sultanate of Adal and a son of Sa'ad ad-Din II. Brought numerous Christian lands under Muslim rule and contributed to expanding Adal's reach and power in the region. The polity under Sultan Badlay controlled the territory stretching from port city of Suakin in Sudan to covering the whole Afar plains to the Shewa and Chercher Mountains to include a significant part of northern Somalia.[3][4]

Reign

After succeeding his brother Jamal Ad-Din, Sultan Badlay moved the capital of Adal to

Richard Pankhurst states that he founded that town.[5]

In the next few years he continued his predecessor's policy of confrontation with the

churches in the Christian Ethiopian lands. He also killed many Christian leaders, and seized their inhabitants, together with much booty. He and his men collected a great deal of wealth, in gold, silver, clothes and armour, as well as many slaves.[6]

Some Christian documents attribute to him very ambitious plans of not only recovering the frontier Muslim provinces but also of leading a major Jihad against the whole of the Christian highlands, over which he is said to have actually nominated prospective governors.[7]

Sultan Badlay also apparently had a fair taste for luxury, the commercial relations that existed between the

Amba", and other parts of his body to Axum, Manhadbe, Wasel (near modern Dessie), Jejeno, Lawo, and Wiz.[11] In retaliation for the death and dismemberment of Badlay, the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt ordered the patriarch of Alexandria to be tortured and threatened to execute him. The situation would eventually be defused when Yaqob freed an imprisoned Egyptian envoy.[12][13]

See also

Notes

  1. ISBN 0-19-726055-1
  2. ^ Pankhurst, Richard. The Ethiopian Borderlands: Essays in Regional History from Ancient Times to the End of the 18th Century (Asmara, Eritrea: Red Sea Press, 1997), pp.56
  3. ISBN 9780821444610
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  4. ISBN 9780521209816
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  5. ^ Richard Pankhurst, History of Ethiopian Towns (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1982), p. 49.
  6. ^ Essays in Regional History from Ancient Times to the End of the 18th Century by Richard Pankhurst p.60
  7. ISBN 978-0-521-20981-6
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  8. ^ E. Cerulli. Islam Yesterday and Today. p. 140.
  9. ISBN 978-92-3-201709-3
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  10. ^ J. Spencer Trimingham, Islam in Ethiopia (Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege for the University Press, 1952), p. 75.
  11. ^ Identification of place names is from Huntingford, p. 104.
  12. ISBN 9781914059681
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  13. ISBN 978-0-8108-7457-2
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Preceded by Walashma dynasty Succeeded by
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