Muhammad VIII of Granada

Muhammad VIII
Muhammad VIII
Sultan of Granada
Reign	1417–1419 (1st reign)
Predecessor	Yusuf III
Successor	Muhammad IX
Reign	1427–1429 (2nd reign)
Predecessor	Muhammad IX
Successor	Muhammad IX
Born	1411; Alhambra
Died	1431 (aged 19–20)
Dynasty	Nasrides
Father	Yusuf III
Mother	Umm al-Fath (I)
Religion	Islam

Muhammad VIII (Arabic: محمد الثامن; 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.

References

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

[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

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Nasrid dynasty topics
Sultans (1232–1492)	Abu Nasr Sa'd of Granada Abu'l-Hasan Ali of Granada Ismail I of Granada Ismail II of Granada Muhammad I of Granada Muhammad II of Granada Muhammad III of Granada Muhammad V of Granada Muhammad VI of Granada Muhammad VII of Granada Muhammad VIII of Granada Muhammad IX of Granada Muhammad XI of Granada Muhammad XII of Granada Muhammad XIII of Granada Muhammad IV of Granada Muhammad X of Granada Nasr of Granada The Sigh of the Moor Yusuf I of Granada Yusuf II of Granada Yusuf III of Granada Yusuf IV of Granada Yusuf V of Granada
Architecture	Alhambra Madrasa of Granada Corral del Carbón (Funduq al-Jadida) Alcaicería of Granada Dar al-Horra Maristan of Granada Cuarto Real de Santo Domingo (Dar al-Manjara al-Kubra)
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