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| Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad أبو بكر بن محمد | |
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| Adal Sultanate | |
| Reign | 1525–1526 |
| Predecessor | Garad Abun Adashe (1518–1520) |
| Successor | Umar Din (1526–1553) |
| Dynasty | Walashmaʿ dynasty |
| Religion | Islam |
Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad (Arabic: أبو بكر بن محمد), reigned 1525–1526, was a sultan of the Sultanate of Adal in the Horn of Africa. The historian Richard Pankhurst credits Abu Bakr with founding the city of Harar,[1] which he made his military headquarters in 1520. He was of Harari background.[2]
Reign
Abu Bakr organized Somali troops, then attacked sultan Garad Abun Adashe and killed him, making himself sultan. However, his control over Adal was disputed by Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi, who eventually defeated Abu Bakr and killed him. The Imam then made Abu Bakr's younger brother, Umar Din, the new sultan, although the latter only reigned as a puppet king.[3]
See also
Notes
- ^ Richard Pankhurst, History of Ethiopian Towns (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1982), p. 49.
- ^ Levine, Donald. Ethiopia’s Dilemma: Missed Chances from the 1960s to the Present. University of Chicago Press. p. 3.
- ^ Spencer Trimingham 1952, pp. 85f.; cf. Tamrat 1977, p. 169.
Works cited
- Spencer Trimingham, John (1952). Islam in Ethiopia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. OCLC 458382994.
- Tamrat, Taddesse (1977). "Ethiopia, the Red Sea and the Horn". In Oliver, Roland (ed.). The Cambridge History of Africa. Volume 3: from c. 1050 to c. 1600. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 98–182. ISBN 978-0-521-20981-6.
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