Al-Malik al-Ashraf Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās, numbered al-Ashraf Ismāʿīl I, was the seventh Rasūlid sultan of

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from 1377 until 1400. gives 1401. He succeeded his father,

al-Afḍal al-ʿAbbās Al-Afdal al-Abbas (; r. 1363–1377) was a ruler of Yemen and a member of the Rasulid dynasty. He was the son and successor of sultan al-Mujahid Ali. He produced Rasulid Hexaglot, a multilingual "dictionary" defining terms in Arabic, Persian langu ...

, and continued his patronage of literature and scholarship. He was also faced with several revolts and

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raids. He was the author or co-author of a history of Yemen, ''Fākihat al-zaman'' ("The Fruits of Time"), which overlaps substantially with the ''Kifāya wa-l-iʿlām'' of

ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Khazrajī Muwaffaq al-Dīn Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Khazrajī (1331–1410), called Ibn Wahhās, was a Yemeni historian who worked for the Rasulid dynasty, Rasūlid dynasty. Life Al-Khazrajī's biography can be constructed from his own state ...

. On his death, he was succeeded by his son, al-Nāṣir Aḥmad.

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