Abd al-Shakur ibn Yusuf was Emir of

Harar Harar ( amh, ሐረር; Harari: ሀረር; om, Adare Biyyo; so, Herer; ar, هرر) known historically by the indigenous as Gey (Harari: ጌይ ''Gēy'', ) is a walled city in eastern Ethiopia. It is also known in Arabic as the City of Saint ...

(1783–1794). He was the first Emir of Harar to give the neighboring Oromo gifts. He went to them in the first years of his reign, and brought with him bales of sheetings which he gave to the Jarso and Nole Oromo. He may have done this to free the way for salt and other goods which had to be brought through their territories. Another example of his efforts to "civilize" the Oromo was his construction of a shrine to the Baghdadi saint `

Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani ʿAbdul Qādir Gīlānī, ( ar, عبدالقادر الجيلاني, ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī; fa, ) known by admirers as Muḥyī l-Dīn Abū Muḥammad b. Abū Sāliḥ ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī al-Baḡdādī al-Ḥasanī al-Ḥusayn ...

near the tomb of

Sheikh Hussein __NOTOC__ Sheikh Hussein is a town in south-eastern Ethiopia. Located in the Bale Zone of the Oromia Region, it has a longitude and latitude of with an elevation of 1386 meters above sea level. The Central Statistical Agency has not published an ...

, which lies to the south deep in the territory of the

Oromo people The Oromo (pron. Oromo language, Oromo: ''Oromoo'') are a Cushitic people, Cushitic ethnic group native to the Oromia region of Ethiopia and parts of Northern Kenya, who speak the Oromo language (also called ''Afaan Oromoo'' or ''Oromiffa''), ...

. Emir Abd al-Shakur's attempts to reform the administrative system of Harar, by reintroducing the institutions of ''sijill'' and ''diwan'', is attested in a document dated to AD 1785/6.Ewald Wagner
"Three Arabic Documents on the History of Harar"
''Journal of Ethiopian Studies'', 12 (1974), pp. 216-219

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Emirs of Harar 18th-century monarchs in Africa Year of death uncertain Year of birth uncertain {{Ethiopia-royal-stub

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