noble_family ahmad ibn ali
Ali ibn Sabr ad - Din ( flourished after 1344 ) was the son of Sabr ad - Din I . The Emperor of Ethiopia Newaya Krestos made him Governor of Ifat after the death of his father . The Sultanate of Ifat was a medieval Muslim state in the eastern regions of the Horn of Africa between the late 13th century and early 15th century . Led by the ___MASK94___ , it was centered in ancient city of Zeila and Shewa . The kingdom ruled over parts of what are now eastern Ethiopia , Djibouti and northern Somaliland . Jamal ad - Din ( flourished mid 14th century ) was a Governor of the Sultanate of Ifat . He was the son of Nahwi b . Mansur b . Umar Walashma ( Umar ibn Dunya - huz ) and a brother of Haqq ad - Din I . The Ethiopian Empire , also known as Abyssinia ( derived from the Arabic " al - Habash "), was a kingdom that spanned a geographical area covered by the northern half of the current state of Ethiopia . It existed from approximately 1137 ( beginning of ___MASK58___ ) until 1974 , when the Solomonic dynasty was overthrown in a "". The Emperor of Ethiopia ( ngusä nägäst , " King of Kings ") was the hereditary ruler of the Ethiopian Empire , until the abolition of the monarchy in 1975 . The Emperor was the head of state and head of government , with ultimate executive , judicial and legislative power in that country . A " National Geographic Magazine " article called imperial Ethiopia " nominally a constitutional monarchy ; in fact [ it was ] a benevolent autocracy ". The ___MASK53___ , also known as the House of Solomon , is the former ruling Imperial House of the Ethiopian Empire . Its members claim patrilineal descent from King Solomon of Israel and the Queen of Sheba . Tradition asserts that the Queen gave birth to Menelik I after her biblically described visit to Solomon in Jerusalem . Newaya Krestos (" property of Christ ", throne name Sayfa Ar ` ed " sword of terror ") was Emperor (" ngusä nägäst ") ( 1344  1372 ) of the Ethiopian Empire , and a member of the ___MASK53___ . He was the eldest son of Amda Seyon I . Ahmad ibn Ali ( Arabic :     ) ( flourished mid - 14th century ) was the son of Jamal ad - Din I . The Emperor of Ethiopia Newaya Krestos made him Governor of Ifat after his father Ali ibn Sabr ad - Din unsuccessfully revolted against the Emperor and was put into prison . Amda Seyon I ( also Amde Tsiyon and other variants , Ge ' ez    " amda iyn ", Amharic " mde iyn ", " Pillar of Zion ") was Emperor of Ethiopia ( 1314  1344 ; throne name Gebre Mesqel Ge ' ez    " gabra masal ", Amh . " gebre mesel ", " slave of the cross "), and a member of the ___MASK53___ . According to the British expert on Ethiopia , Edward Ullendorff , " Amde Tseyon was one of the most outstanding Ethiopian kings of any age and a singular figure dominating the Horn of Africa in the fourteenth century ." His conquests of Muslim borderlands greatly expanded Ethiopian territory and power in the region , maintained for centuries after his death . Amda Seyon asserted the strength of the newly ( 1270 ) installed ___MASK53___ and therefore legitimized it . These expansions further provided for the spread of Christianity to frontier areas , sparking a long era of proselytization , Christianization , and integration of previously peripheral areas .