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{{Infobox monarch|
| name         = Othman II
| succession   = ''[[List of mais of Kanem–Bornu|Mai]]'' of the [[Kanem–Bornu Empire]]
| reign        = 1366–1368
| predecessor  = [[Othman I]]
| successor    = [[Abubakar Liyatu]]
| house        = [[Sayfawa dynasty]]
| house-type   = Dynasty
| father       = [[Idris I of Kanem|Idris I]]
| mother       = Famafa
}}
'''Othman II''' (ʿUthmān bin Idrīs<ref name=":0232">{{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=126 |orig-year=1996}}</ref>) was the ''[[List of mais of Kanem–Bornu|mai]]'' of the [[Kanem–Bornu Empire]] in 1366–1368.<ref name=":0232" />

== Life ==
Othman was the son of [[Idris I of Kanem|Idris I]] and Famafa.<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=81 |chapter=The Bornu King Lists}}</ref> He succeeded his cousin, [[Othman I]],<ref name=":2" /> as ''mai'' in 1366,<ref name=":0232" /> after Othman I's death in the war against the [[Bilala people]].<ref name=":12">{{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... 1849-1855 |date=1857 |publisher=Longmans |pages=640 |language=en}}</ref> Othman II continued this war for two years, until he met the same fate<ref name=":12" /> in 1368.<ref name=":0232" /> Othman was succeeded as ''mai'' by his cousin (and Othman I's brother) [[Abubakar Liyatu]].<ref name=":2" />

== References ==
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