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Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad

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Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad
أبو بكر بن محمد
Adal Sultanate
Reign1520–1526
PredecessorGarad Abun Adashe (1519–1525)
SuccessorUmar Din (1526–1553)
DynastyWalashmaʿ dynasty
ReligionIslam

Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad (Template:Lang-ar), 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, which he made his military headquarters in 1520.

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.

See also

Notes

  1. Richard Pankhurst, History of Ethiopian Towns (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1982), p. 49.
  2. Spencer Trimingham 1952, pp. 85f.; cf. Tamrat 1977, p. 169.

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