Al-Afdal al-Abbas

Al-Afdal al-Abbas

Al-Afdal al-Abbas (r. 1363-1377) was a ruler of Yemen and a member of the Turkic(Oghuz) Rasulid dynasty. He produced a multilingual "dictionary" defining terms in Arabic, Persian language, Turkic, Greek, Armenian, and Mongolian language. [C.V. Findley, Turks in World History, pp. 86, Oxford University Press, 2005]

ee also

* History of Yemen

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