Al-Afdal al-Abbas

Al-Afdal al-Abbas (r. 1363–1377) was a Rasulid sultan of Yemen who succeeded his father al-Mujahid Ali. He moved against extortion by port officials: he gave robes of honour to ship captains and abolished new tax levies, and merchants spread word of his justice.

A scholar-ruler, he compiled a multilingual dictionary in Arabic, Persian, Turkic, Greek, Armenian and Mongolian. He died in 1377 and his son al-Ashraf Isma'il succeeded him.