Al-Afdal al-Abbas (; r. 1363–1377) was a ruler of

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and a member of the

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dynasty. He was the son and successor of sultan al-Mujahid Ali. He produced a multilingual "dictionary" defining terms in

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, Turkic,

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, and

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. 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

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one winter he was "dealing out measures of justice such are not usual. He gave

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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.

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