Ishaq b. Dawud, King of Abyssinia

إسحاق بن داود صاحب الحبشة

c. July 1430 CE · Dhu al-Qa'da 833 AH

Ishaq b. Dawud b. Sayf Ar'ad, king of Abyssinia — twenty-one years on the throne, died Dhu al-Qa'da 833; his son Andras lasted four months, then his uncle Kharnabay briefly, then a boy who died in the 839 plague 1.

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sultan
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The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
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East Africa & Swahili coast
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Ishaq ibn Dawud, king of Abyssinia

Ishaq ibn Dawud ibn Sayf Ar'ad al-Hashi, king of Abyssinia. He died in Dhu al-Qaʿda 833 AH, after a reign of twenty-one years. His son Andraws was set up after him and ruled for four months and then died. Then his paternal uncle Kharnabay was set up and ruled briefly. After him a small child was installed, until he died in the plague of 839 AH 1.

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  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 201
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