Barakat ibn Umar Din

Barakāt ibn ʿUmar Dīn بركات بن عمر الدين
Sultan of the Adal Sultanate
Reign	1555–1559
Predecessor	Ali ibn Umar Din (1553–1555)
Successor	Nur ibn Mujahid (1559–1567)
Died	1559 Harar
Dynasty	Walashmaʿ dynasty
Religion	Islam

Barakāt ibn ʿUmar Dīn (Arabic: بركات بن عمر الدين), (reigned 1555–1559), was the nominal Sultan of the Adal Sultanate in the Horn of Africa. A son of Umar Din (r. 1526–1553) and a brother of Ali ibn Umar Din (r. 1553–1555), he was the last known member of the Walashma dynasty to rule Adal.^[1]

In 1555, Barakat and Ali Jamal ibn al-Imam Ahmad led an army into Dawaro with the intent of taking it from the Ethiopians. However, he was defeated by the Governor of Dawaro. When Nur ibn Mujahid invaded the Ethiopian Empire in 1559, sultan Barakat held Harar against the army of Hamalmal, who had been sent there by his cousin, Emperor Gelawdewos. Dejazmatch Hamalmal and Ras Fasil killed him and sacked the city.^[2][3]

References

1. Spencer Trimingham, John (1952). Islam in Ethiopia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. OCLC 458382994. p. 92, note 4.
2. Hassan, Mohammad. Oromo of Ethiopia 1500 (PDF). University of London. p. 184.
3. A history of the Oromo Asma Giyorgis and his work history of the Galla and the kingdom of sawa. Edited and translated Bairu tafla. Bairu Tafla.

Preceded by Ali ibn Umar Din

Walashma dynasty

Succeeded by Dynasty exterminated