Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Malik al-Nāṣir Aḥmad ibn Ismāʿīl (died 1424), numbered al-Nāṣir Aḥmad I, was the eighth
Rasūlid sultan of
Yemen
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from 1400 until his death.
[ gives 1401.] He succeeded his father,
al-Ashraf Ismāʿīl I
Al-Malik al-Ashraf Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās, numbered al-Ashraf Ismāʿīl I, was the seventh Rasūlid sultan of Yemen from 1377 until 1400. gives 1401. He succeeded his father, al-Afḍal al-ʿAbbās, and continued his patronage of literature ...
, and was succeeded by his son,
al-Manṣūr ʿAbdallāh.
Al-Nāṣir Aḥmad was the last successful Rasūlid, attaining military victories in Yemen and receiving diplomatic gifts from
China
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. The Chinese admiral
Zheng He
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visited
Aden
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during his
fifth, sixth and seventh voyages. On the first of these, according to the anonymous ''
Tārikh al-dawla al-Rasūliyya fī l-Yaman'', an envoy from the fleet proceeded overland to meet al-Nāṣir in in March 1419, bringing with him gifts of porcelain, musk, storax and silk woven with gold.
After al-Nāṣir's death, the dynasty declined rapidly, losing all power in 1454.
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14th-century births
1424 deaths
Rasulid dynasty