query: noble_family ahmad ibn ali
supports: 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 Zagwe dynasty) until 1974, when the Solomonic dynasty was overthrown in a "". 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 Walashma dynasty, 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. Amda Seyon I (also Amde Tsiyon and other variants, Ge'ez    "amda iyn", Amharic "mde iyn", "Pillar of Zion") was Emperor of Ethiopia (13141344; throne name Gebre Mesqel Ge'ez    "gabra masal", Amh. "gebre mesel", "slave of the cross"), and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. 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 Solomonic dynasty 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. 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 . The Solomonic dynasty, 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. 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. Newaya Krestos ("property of Christ", throne name Sayfa Ar`ed "sword of terror") was Emperor ("ngusä nägäst") (13441372) of the Ethiopian Empire, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was the eldest son of Amda Seyon I. 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".
candidates: solomonic dynasty walashma dynasty zagwe dynasty
answer: walashma dynasty