Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad

Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad أبو بكر بن محمد
Sultan of the Sultanate of Adal
Reign	1525–1526
Dynasty	Walashma dynasty
Religious beliefs	Islam

Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad (Arabic: أبو بكر بن محمد‎) (reigned 1525–1526) was a Sultan of the Sultanate of Adal. The historian Richard Pankhurst credits Abu Bakr with founding the city of Harar,^[1] which he made his military headquarters in 1520.

Reign

Abu Bakr organized Somali troops, then attacked Sultan Garad Abun ibn Adash of Adal and killed him, making himself sultan. However, his control over Adal was disputed by Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi, who eventually defeated Abu Bakr and killed him. The Imam then made Abu Bakr's brother, Umar Din, sultan.^[2]

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^ Richard Pankhurst, History of Ethiopian Towns (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1982), p. 49.
^ J. Spencer Trimingham, Islam in Ethiopia (Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege for the University Press, 1952), pp. 85f.

Preceded by Muhammad ibn Azhar ad-Din	Walashma dynasty	Succeeded by Umar Din

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