ʿUmar Dīn ( ar, عمر الدين), reigned 1526–1553, 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 c ...

ruling over the

Sultanate of Adal The Adal Sultanate, or the Adal Empire or the ʿAdal or the Bar Saʿad dīn (alt. spelling ''Adel Sultanate, ''Adal ''Sultanate'') () was a medieval Sunni Muslim Empire which was located in the Horn of Africa. It was founded by Sabr ad-Din II ...

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), ...

. He was the younger brother of

Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad ( ar, أبو بكر بن محمد), reigned 1525–1526, was a sultan of the Sultanate of Adal in the Horn of Africa. The historian Richard Pankhurst credits Abu Bakr with founding the city of Harar, which he made his mil ...

Reign

After his brother

was killed by

Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi ( so, Axmed Ibraahim al-Qaasi or Axmed Gurey, Harari: አሕመድ ኢብራሂም አል-ጋዚ, ar, أحمد بن إبراهيم الغازي ; 1506 – 21 February 1543) was an imam and general of the Adal Sultana ...

(1506–1543) in 1526, Umar Din was made sultan by Imam Ahmad. He ruled as a

puppet king A puppet monarch is a majority figurehead who is installed or patronized by an imperial power to provide the appearance of local authority but to allow political and economic control to remain among the dominating nation. A figurehead monarc ...

, with Imam Ahmad wielding true power. He was succeeded by his son

Ali ibn Umar Din ʿAli ibn ʿUmar Dīn ( ar, علي بن عمر الدين), reigned 1553–1555, was a sultan of the Sultanate of Adal in the Horn of Africa. He was the son of Umar Din ʿUmar Dīn ( ar, عمر الدين), reigned 1526–1553, was a sultan ruli ...

in 1553, who in turn was succeeded by his brother

Barakat ibn Umar Din Barakāt ibn ʿUmar Dīn ( ar, بركات بن عمر الدين), reigned 1555–1559, was a nominal sultan of the Sultanate of Adal in the Horn of Africa. A son of Umar Din () and a brother of Ali ibn Umar Din (), he was the last known member ...

, the last member of the

Walashmaʿ dynasty The Walashma dynasty was a medieval Muslim dynasty of the Horn of Africa. Founded in 1285, it was centered in Zeila, and established bases around the Horn of Africa. It governed the Ifat and Adal Sultanates in what are present-day Somaliland, Dji ...

, in 1555..

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Umar Din 16th-century monarchs in Africa Sultans of the Adal Sultanate 16th-century Somalian people