Al-Afdal al-Abbas ( ar, الأفضل العباس; r. 1363–1377) was a ruler of
Yemen
Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...
and a member of the
Rasulid
The Rasulids ( ar, بنو رسول, Banū Rasūl) were a Sunni Muslim dynasty who ruled Yemen from 1229 to 1454.
History
Origin of the Rasulids
The Rasulids took their name from al-Amin's nickname "Rasul". The Zaidi Shi'i Imams of Yemen we ...
dynasty.
He was the son and successor of sultan
al-Mujahid Ali. He produced
a multilingual "dictionary" defining terms in
Arabic
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,
Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
,
Turkic,
Greek
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Greece
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,
Armenian
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, and
Mongolian. He also took measures against extortion by local bureaucrats in the ports of the kingdom, thereby striving to maintain the attraction of Yemen in the eyes of foreign merchants. When he stayed in
Aden one winter he was "dealing out measures of justice such are not usual. He gave
robes of honour
A robe of honour ( ar, خلعة, khilʿa, plural , or ar, تشريف, tashrīf, pl. or ) was a term designating rich garments given by medieval and early modern Islamic rulers to subjects as tokens of honour, often as part of a ceremony of appoi ...
to the ship captains, and abolished many things recently introduced by the collectors of taxes. So the merchants departed recounting his praises and his abundant gifts in all quarters by land and by sea."
[Robert W. Stookey, ''Yemen: The politics of the Yemen Arab Republic'', 1978, p. 116.] At his death in 1377 he was succeeded by his son
al-Ashraf Isma'il.
See also
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History of Yemen
The history of Yemen describes the cultures, events, and peoples of what is one of the oldest centers of civilization in the Near East. Its relatively fertile land and adequate rainfall in a moister climate helped sustain a stable population, a ...
References
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Monarchs of Yemen
14th-century rulers in Asia
Rasulid dynasty
14th-century Arabs