Muhammad Imaaduddeen V

Sultan Muhammad Imaaduddeen V (1884–1920), son of

Ibrahim Nooraddeen Ibrahim Nooraddeen (Dhivehi: ސުލްޠާން އިބްރާހީމް ނުރައްދީން; died 1892) was twice the sultan of the Maldives. His first reign was from 1882 through 1886. After 4 years, 11 months and 29 days, Muhammad Mueenuddeen II too ...

and Bodugaluge Didi of Machchangoalhi Ganduvaru, and also younger half-brother of

Muhammad Shamsuddeen III Sultan Muhammad Shamsuddeen Iskander III, , (Dhivehi: ސުލްޠާން މުޙައްމަދު ޝަމްސުއްދީން; 20 October 1879 – 12 March 1935), son of Ibrahim Nooraddeen and Kakaage Don Goma, was the Sultan of the Maldives first from 7 ...

, was the

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of the

Maldives Maldives (, ; dv, ދިވެހިރާއްޖެ, translit=Dhivehi Raajje, ), officially the Republic of Maldives ( dv, ދިވެހިރާއްޖޭގެ ޖުމްހޫރިއްޔާ, translit=Dhivehi Raajjeyge Jumhooriyyaa, label=none, ), is an archipelag ...

from 1892 to 1893 for five months. He was 8 years old when he became the sultan, after the death of his father Sultan

. Despite having an older half-brother, Imaaduddeen V, was appointed as sultan by a decree of the Council of Ministers (''Raskan-hingaa Majlis'') headed by Ibrahim Didi, brother-in-law to the late sultan Nooraddeen. Meanwhile, a vigorous protest was handed down to the Ceylon Governor in

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by Muhammed Didi, the brother of Kakaage Don Goma, one of the late Sultan Nooraddeen's wives highlighting that ''the Law of Succession in the Maldive Islands'' which supported lineal

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has been breached and that his great-nephew Muhammed Shamsuddeen (then Kakaage Doshi Mannipulhu) who was 14 and thus the eldest son of the late Sultan should be the legitimate heir to the throne. Five months later Imaaduddeen was deposed by

as the Sultan of the Maldives. He died during his brother's reign. 19th-century sultans of the Maldives 1884 births 1920 deaths {{Maldives-bio-stub