Umar Din

ʿUmar Dīn
عمر الدين
Adal Sultanate
Reign1526–1553
PredecessorAbu Bakr ibn Muhammad
(1525–1526)
SuccessorAli ibn Umar Din
(1553–1555)
DynastyWalashmaʿ dynasty
ReligionIslam

ʿUmar Dīn (Arabic: عمر الدين), reigned 1526–1553, was a sultan ruling over the Sultanate of Adal in the Horn of Africa. He was the younger brother of Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad.[1] According to historian Richard Pankhurst, Umar was of Harari background.[2]

  1. ^ Tamrat 1977, p. 169; Spencer Trimingham 1952, p. 86.
  2. ^ Pankhurst, Richard (1997). The Ethiopian Borderlands: Essays in Regional History from Ancient Times to the End of the 18th Century. Red Sea Press. p. 225. ISBN 9780932415196.