Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad

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| name = Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad
{{lang|ar|أبو بكر بن محمد}}

| title = Sultan

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| reign = 1525–1526

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| succession = Sultan of the Adal Sultanate

| predecessor = Garad Abun Adashe (1518–1520)

| successor = Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi(1526-1547)
Umar Din (puppet ruler)

| dynasty = Walashmaʿ dynasty

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| religion = Islam

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Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad ({{langx|ar|أبو بكر بن محمد}}), (reigned 1525–1526), was a Sultan of the Adal Sultanate in the Horn of Africa. The historian Richard Pankhurst credits Abu Bakr with founding the city of Harar,Richard Pankhurst, History of Ethiopian Towns (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1982), p. 49. which he made his military headquarters in 1520. He was of Harari background.{{cite book |last1=Levine |first1=Donald |title=Ethiopia’s Dilemma: Missed Chances from the 1960s to the Present |publisher=University of Chicago Press |page=3 |url=https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1000&context=ijad}}

Reign

Abu Bakr organized a band of Somali brigands, then attacked the popular leader of Adal emir Garad Abogn ibn Adish and killed him subsequently moving the capital of Adal Sultanate to Harar city.{{cite book |title=Abu Bakr b. Muhammad b. Azar |publisher=Encyclopedia Aethiopica |url=https://en.sewasew.com/p/abu-bakr-b-muhammad-b-azar}}{{Cite book |last=Trimingham |first=J. Spencer |title=Islam in Ethiopia |date= |publisher=Routledge |year=1952 |pages=85}} 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.{{harvnb|Spencer Trimingham|1952|pp=85f.}}; cf. {{harvnb|Tamrat|1977|p=169}}.

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=Works cited=

  • {{cite book|last1=Spencer Trimingham|first1=John|author1-link=J. Spencer Trimingham|date=1952|title=Islam in Ethiopia|location=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|oclc=458382994}}
  • {{cite book|last1=Tamrat|first1=Taddesse|author1-link=Taddesse Tamrat|date=1977|chapter= Ethiopia, the Red Sea and the Horn|editor1-last=Oliver|editor1-first=Roland|editor1-link=Roland Oliver|title=The Cambridge History of Africa. Volume 3: from c. 1050 to c. 1600|location=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press|pages=98–182|isbn=978-0-521-20981-6}}

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Category:Year of birth unknown

Category:1526 deaths

Category:16th-century monarchs in Africa

Category:Sultans of the Adal Sultanate

Category:People from Harari Region

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