Ali Dinar

Ali Dinar after his death in battle in 1916

Ali Dinar (Arabic: علي دينار‎) (1856 - November 6, 1916) was a Sultan of the Sultanate of Darfur and ruler from the Keira dynasty.

A rebellion led by him in 1915 provoked the British to launch a punitive expedition, the Anglo Egyptian Darfur Expedition, in which he was killed.

References

• Entry in the Encyclopædia Britannica
• Jay Spaulding,Lidwien Kapteijns: An Islamic alliance: ʻAlī Dīnār and the Sānūsiyya, 1906-1916 at Google Books

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