Al-Sultan Salis Kalaminjaa Siri Meesuvara Mahaa Radun (

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from 1293 to 1302. He succeeded to the throne after the death of his father Sultan Yoosuf I, by becoming the 15th sultan to ascend the throne of Maldives from the

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. However, according to Moroccan traveller

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, he was not the son of Yoosuf, but rather was a

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who had founded a new dynasty.

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