Muhammad VIII of Granada explained

Muhammad VIII
Succession:Sultan of Granada
(1st reign)
Reign1:1417–1419
Predecessor1:Yusuf III of Granada
Successor1:Muhammad IX of Granada
Succession2:Sultan of Granada
(2nd reign)
Reign2:1427–1429
Predecessor2:Muhammad IX of Granada
Successor2:Muhammad IX of Granada
House:Nasrides
House-Type:Dynasty
Father:Yusuf III
Mother:Umm al-Fath (I)
Birth Date:1411
Birth Place:Alhambra
Death Date:1431
Religion:Islam

Muhammad VIII (; 1411–1431), known as "the left handed", was the fourteenth Nasrid ruler of the Islamic Emirate of Granada in Al-Andalus on the Iberian Peninsula.

Life

He, as eldest son, became Sultan after the death of his father Yusuf III.[1] His first reign lasted from 1417 to 1419, and his second from 1427 to 1429.[2] Immediately after coming to the throne, Muhammad renewed the treaties between Granada, Castile and the Marinids, and sent troops to help the Marinids in the Siege of Ceuta in 1418.

Notes and References

  1. E.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936, Volume 1, M. Th. Houtsama, Leiden 1988, p. 880
  2. The new Islamic dynasties: a chronological and genealogical manual, Clifford Edmund Bosworth, New York 2004, p. 22