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Umar Din

Field	Value
name	ʿUmar Dīn
عمر الدين
title	Sultan
reign	1526–1553
succession	Sultan of the Adal Sultanate
predecessor	Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad
(1525–1526)
successor	Ali ibn Umar Din
(1553–1555)
dynasty	Walashmaʿ dynasty
religion	Islam

عمر الدين (1525–1526) (1553–1555)

ʿUmar Dīn (), (reigned 1526–1553), was a Sultan of the Adal Sultanate in the Horn of Africa. He was the younger brother of Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad. According to historian Richard Pankhurst, Umar was of Harari background.

Reign

After his brother Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad was killed by Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi (1506–1543) in 1526, Umar Din was made sultan by Imam Ahmad. He ruled as a puppet king, with Imam Ahmad wielding true power.

The Futuh al-Habasha of Sihab ad-Din records that the Sultan and the Imam quarrelled over the distribution of the alms tax at some point between the Battle of Shimbra Kure and the Battle of Amba Sel, which led to Imam Ahmad leaving Harar to live amongst the Somalis in Zeila for some time.

He was succeeded by his son Ali ibn Umar Din in 1553, who in turn was succeeded by his brother Barakat ibn Umar Din, the last member of the Walashmaʿ dynasty, in 1555.

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Works cited

References

{{harvnb. Tamrat. 1977. Spencer Trimingham. 1952
(1997). "The Ethiopian Borderlands: Essays in Regional History from Ancient Times to the End of the 18th Century". Red Sea Press.
{{harvnb. Spencer Trimingham. 1952
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
{{harvnb. Spencer Trimingham. 1952

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