{{Infobox monarch| | name = Idris V | succession = ''Mai'' of the Kanem–Bornu Empire | reign = 17th century (17–20 years)<br/>{{Circa}} 1680–1699{{efn|name=IdrisReign|Different king lists (''girgam''s) and chronicles translated in the 19th–20th centuries give Idris slightly different regnal lengths: 17 years (Urvoy), 19 years (Palmer), or 20 years (Barth, Landeroin, Nachtigal).<ref name=":2" /> As a result of this, and due to different calculations for other mais, various dates have been given for his reign, including 1685–1704 (Barth), 1680/1684–1699 (Palmer), 1694–1711 (Urvoy), 1674–1694 (Landeroin), and 1670–1690 (Nachtigal).<ref name=":2" /> Cohen (1966) considered a reign of 20 years most likely.<ref name=":2" /> For unknown reasons, Bosworth (2012) assigned Idris a shortened 14-year reign, dated to 1684–1699.<ref name=":02" />}} | predecessor = Ali III Walamma | successor = Dunama VII Martemarambi | death_date = {{circa}} 1699 | house = Sayfawa dynasty | house-type = Dynasty | father = Ali III Walamma }} '''Idris V{{efn|Some chronologies of Kanem–Bornu rulers omit the 14th-century Idris II Saradima, lowering the regnal numbers of later rulers of this name. This ruler is then considered '''Idris IV'''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stewart |first=John |title=African States and Rulers: An Encyclopedia of Native, Colonial and Independent States and Rulers Past and Present |publisher=McFarland & Company |year=1989 |p=35}}</ref>}}''' (Idrīs bin ʿAlī) was ''mai'' (ruler) of the Kanem–Bornu Empire in the late 17th century, ruling approximately 1680–1699.{{efn|name=IdrisReign}}
== Life == Idris was a son of ''mai'' Ali III Walamma,<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Cohen |first=Ronald |url=https://archive.org/details/bostonuniversity02bost |title=Boston University Papers on Africa: Volume II: African History |date=1966 |publisher=Boston University Press |pages=60, 64, 82 |chapter=The Bornu King Lists}}</ref> who he succeeded as ''mai'' in the late 17th century.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last=Bosworth |first=Clifford Edmund |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/New_Islamic_Dynasties/maQxEAAAQBAJ |title=The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual |date=2012 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |year= |isbn=0-7486-2137-7 |pages=127 |orig-year=1996}}</ref> Very little is recorded of Idris's reign. The German explorer Heinrich Barth, who visited Bornu in the 1850s, noted that Idris was omitted by mistake in some royal chronicles and lists of rulers (''girgam''s).<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Barth |first=Heinrich |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Travels_and_Discoveries_in_North_and_Cen/la_zIUj0oiwC |title=Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: Being a Journal of an Expedition Undertaken under the Auspices of H.B.M.'s Government, in the Years 1849–1855 |date=1857 |publisher=Longmans |pages=659 |language=en}}</ref>
Idris ruled for over a decade, between 17 and 20 years.{{efn|name=IdrisReign}} The location of his death is not recorded.<ref name=":0" /> Idris was succeeded as ''mai'' by his brother Dunama VII Martemarambi.<ref name=":02" /><ref name=":0" />
== Notes == {{Notelist}} == References == {{reflist}} {{Kanem–Bornu rulers}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Idris 05}} Category:Rulers of the Bornu Empire Category:17th-century monarchs in Africa Category:1699 deaths