Najashi

Najashi
Negus
1314 manuscript illustration by Rashid ad-Din.
King of Aksum
Reign614–630
PredecessorIsrael or Ioel (unsure)
Successor'Akla Wedem (unsure)
BornAshama[1][2]
Around 560 C.E.[citation needed]
Kingdom of Axum
Died630(630-00-00) (aged 69–70)[2]
Negash, Kingdom of Axum
(present-day Ethiopia)
FatherAbjar
ReligionChristian

Aṣ-ḥamah also spelt as Aṣ-ḥama (Arabic: أَصْحَمَة), was the Negus (Arabic: ٱلنَّجَاشِيّ, romanizedAn-Najāshī) ruler of the Kingdom of Aksum who reigned from 614–630 C.E..[1] It is agreed by Muslim scholars that Najashi gave shelter to Muslim emigrants from Mecca, around 615–616 at Axum.[3][4]

  1. ^ a b al-Bukhari 2013, pp. 174, 179.
  2. ^ a b Öztürk 2006, pp. 476–477.
  3. ^ M. Elfasi; Ivan Hrbek (1988). Africa from the Seventh to the Eleventh Century. UNESCO. p. 560. ISBN 978-9-2310-1709-4.
  4. ^ Ibn Ishāq (2004). Sīratu Rasūlillāh. Oxford University Press. pp. 150–153.

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