Muhammad VIII of Granada

Muhammad VIII
Sultan of Granada (1st reign)
Reign	1417–1419
Predecessor	Yusuf III of Granada
Successor	Muhammad IX of Granada
Sultan of Granada (2nd reign)
Reign	1427–1429
Predecessor	Muhammad IX of Granada
Successor	Muhammad IX of Granada
Born	1411 Alhambra
Died	1431
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

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

Muhammad VIII of Granada Nasrid dynasty Cadet branch of the Banu Khazraj Born: 1411 Died: 1431
Regnal titles
Preceded by Yusuf III	Sultan of Granada 1417–1419	Succeeded by Muhammad IX
Preceded by Muhammad IX	Sultan of Granada 1427–1429	Succeeded by Muhammad IX