Idris II Saradima

Idris II (Idrīs bin Dāwūd may have been a mai (ruler) of the Kanem–Bornu Empire in the 14th century, approximately 1369–1376, possibly co-ruling with mai Dunama III.

Sources and interpretation The mais Idris Saradima and Dunama III are recorded in lists of Kanem–Bornu rulers (girgams) translated by Gustav Nachtigal (1881) and (1911). Both figures are omitted in lists translated by Heinrich Barth (1851) and Richmond Palmer (1936). Cohen (1966) stated that their absence in Barth and Palmer's lists suggest that Dunama and Idris were only vaguely remembered by the 19th century, and considered it possible that they were the same person, that one of them reigned briefly during the reign of the other, or that neither actually reigned. In his list of Kanem–Bornu rulers, Bosworth (2012) includes Idris "and/or" Dunama.

According to Nachtigal, Idris was a son of Haritso (or Hartso), a son of mai Dawud Nikalemi. Landeroin instead designated Idris as a son (not grandson) of Dawud. Urvoy preferred Nachtigal's version of Idris's parentage whereas Bosworth preferred Landeroin's version.