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Sultan
Nasir ibn Uthman
ناصر بن عثمان
Sultan
Sultan of the Adal Sultanate
Reign1571–1573
PredecessorTahla Abbas
SuccessorMuhammad ibn Nasir
Died1573
FatherUthman the Abyssinian
ReligionSunni Islam

Nasir ibn Uthman (Arabic: ناصر بن عثمان) was the sultan of the Sultanate of Adal in the Horn of Africa.

The son of Uthman the Abyssinian, Nasir was brought to power through a coup by a militaristic party who longed for a Second Conquest of Abyssinia. Upon his death in 1573, his son, Muhammad ibn Nasir ibn Uthman took his place followed him as sultan

References

  1. Spencer Trimingham, John (1952). Islam in Ethiopia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. OCLC 458382994. p. 96, note 4.
  2. Pankhurst, Richard (1997). The Ethiopian Borderlands Essays in Regional History from Ancient Times to the End of the 18th Century. Red Sea Press. p. 374. ISBN 9780932415196.
  3. History of Harar (PDF). p. 106.
  4. Trimmingham, John Spencer (1952). Islam in Ethiopia. p. 96.
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