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Umar Din

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Umar Din (16th century) was a sultan of Adal and brother of Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad.

Umar Din was made sultan by Imam Ahmad Gragn after he killed Umar Din's brother Abu Bakr in 1526, and was the Imam's puppet until the Imam was killed in battle in 1542.1

Notes

  1. J. Spencer Trimingham, Islam in Ethiopia (Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege for the University Press, 1952), p. 86.

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