Umar Din

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Umar Din (r. 1526-1553) was a sultan of Adal and brother of Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad.

Umar Din was made sultan by Imam Ahmad Gragn after he killed Umar Din's brother Abu Bakr in 1526, and ruled at least until the Imam was killed in battle in 1542. Trimingham described the Sultan as the Imam's puppet.[1] However, the Futuh al-Habasa of Sihab ad-Din records that the Sultan and the Imam quarrelled over the distribution of the alms tax between the Battle of Shimbra Kure and the Battle of Amba Sel; this quarrel led to Imam Ahmad Gragn leaving Harar to live amongst the Somalis in Zarba for some time, which suggests Umar Din wielded some power of his own.[2]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ J. Spencer Trimingham, Islam in Ethiopia (Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege for the University Press, 1952), p. 86.
  2. ^ Sihab ad-Din Ahmad bin 'Abd al-Qader, Futuh al-Habasa: The conquest of Ethiopia, translated by Paul Lester Stenhouse with annotations by Richard Pankhurst (Hollywood: Tsehai, 2003), pp. 101-105
Preceded by
Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad		 Walashma dynasty Succeeded by
Ali ibn Umar Din
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