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Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad

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Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad
أبو بكر بن محمد
Adal Sultanate
Reign1525–1526
PredecessorGarad Abun Adashe (1518–1520)
SuccessorAhmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi(1526-1547)
Umar Din (puppet ruler)
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. He was of Harari background.

Reign

Abu Bakr organized Somali troops, then attacked the popular leader of Adal emir Garad Abun Adashe and killed him subsequently moving the capital of Adal Sultanate to Harar city. However, a power struggle with Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi would ensue, 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. Levine, Donald. Ethiopia’s Dilemma: Missed Chances from the 1960s to the Present. University of Chicago Press. p. 3.
  3. Abu Bakr b. Muhammad b. Azar. Encyclopedia Aethiopica.
  4. Spencer Trimingham 1952, pp. 85f.; cf. Tamrat 1977, p. 169.

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