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Sultan of Hobyo (r. early 1900s–1925) This article is about Second ruler of Hobyo sultanate. For his predecessor and father, see Yusuf Ali Kenadid.
Ali Yusuf Kenadid
علي يوسف كينيديد
Sultan
Portrait of Ali Yusuf Kenadid
2nd Sultan of Hobyo
Reign28 September 1911–1925
Coronation5 October
PredecessorYusuf Ali Kenadid
SuccessorMonarchy abolished
Died1936
Mogadishu
Names
Ali Yusuf Ali
FatherYusuf Ali Kenadid
ReligionIslam

Ali Yusuf Kenadid (Somali: Cali Yuusuf Keenadiid, Arabic: علي يوسف كينيديد; died 1927) was a Somali Sultan and the second ruler of the Sultanate of Hobyo.

History

Main articles: Majeerteen Sultanate and Somali aristocratic and court titles

Ali Yusuf was born into a Majeerteen Darod family. His father, Sultan Yusuf Ali Kenadid, was the founder of the Sultanate of Hobyo centered in present-day northeastern and central Somalia. The polity was established in the 1870s on territory carved out of the ruling Majeerteen Sultanate (Migiurtinia). Ali Yusuf's brother, Osman Yusuf Kenadid, would go on to invent the Osmanya writing script for the Somali language.

Tomb of Sultan Ali Yusuf, Sultan of Hobyo.

In an attempt to advance his own expansionist objectives, Kenadid père in late 1888 entered into a treaty with the Italians, making his realm an Italian protectorate. The terms of the agreement specified that Italy was to steer clear of any interference in the sultanate's administration.

However, the relationship between Hobyo and Italy soured when the elder Kenadid refused the Italians' proposal to allow a British contingent of troops to disembark in his Sultanate so that they might then pursue their battle against the Dhulbahante garad and Darawiish monarch Diiriye Guure and his emir, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan's Dervish forces.

See also

References

  1. "Tomb of Ali Yusuf, Sultan Obbia".
  2. Helen Chapin Metz, ed., Somalia: a country study, (The Division: 1993), p.10.
  3. Diringer, David (1968). The Alphabet: A Key to the History of Mankind, Volume 1. Funk & Wagnalls. pp. 235–236. ISBN 1452299374. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
  4. ^ The Majeerteen Sultanates
  5. Issa-Salwe, Abdisalam M. (1996). The Collapse of the Somali State: The Impact of the Colonial Legacy. London: Haan Associates. pp. 34–35. ISBN 187420991X.

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