Mansur ibn Muhammad ( ar, محمد بن ناصر), (died 1577), was a

sultan Sultan (; ar, سلطان ', ) is a position with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", "rulership", derived from the verbal noun ', meaning "authority" or "power". Later, it ...

of the Sultanate of Adal in the

Horn of Africa The Horn of Africa (HoA), also known as the Somali Peninsula, is a large peninsula and geopolitical region in East Africa.Robert Stock, ''Africa South of the Sahara, Second Edition: A Geographical Interpretation'', (The Guilford Press; 2004), ...

Reign

After Sultan Muhammad ibn Nasir departed from the city to wage war against the Ethiopian Empire, the Oromos had launched one of the most devastating attacks ever mounted on Harar, a local Harari chronicle states: Mansur then sent messages to the Somalis to come to the rescue of the city. The Somalis responded quick and favorably. With his new Somali troops Mansur was able to easily repel several Oromo attacks on Harar. He then went to Zeila and Aussa with 150 Somali calvarymen and reestablished control over those areas. However, while in Aussa, Mansur was killed by one of his bodyguards.

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{{reflist 1577 deaths 16th-century monarchs in Africa Year of birth unknown People from Harari Region Sultans of the Adal Sultanate