The Sultanate of Ifat, known as Wafāt or Awfāt in Arabic texts, or the Kingdom of Zeila was a medieval Sunni Muslim state in the eastern regions of the...
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Walashma dynasty (redirect from Dynasty of Walashma)
dynasty of the Horn of Africa founded in Ifat (modern eastern Shewa). Founded in the 13th century, it governed the Ifat and Adal Sultanates in what are...
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Ifat may refer to: Ifat (historical region), former geographic region in Northeast Africa Sultanate of Ifat, a Muslim sultanate in the northern Horn of...
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located in the Horn of Africa. It was founded by Sabr ad-Din III on the Harar plateau in Adal after the fall of the Sultanate of Ifat. The kingdom flourished...
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Makhzumi dynasty (redirect from Sultanate of Shewa)
incorporated into Ifat an Egyptian courtier, Al Umari, would describe Ifat Sultanate as one of the largest as well as the richest of Ethiopias Muslim provinces...
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Sultan (redirect from Sultanate of Dar Masalit)
northeastern Ethiopia Sultanate of Harar, in eastern Ethiopia Jarso Sultanate Sultanate of Hobyo, in central Somalia Sultanate of Ifat, in Somaliland, Djibouti...
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Somali people (redirect from People of Somalia)
officials compose a hymn celebrating a military victory over the Sultanate of Ifat. Simur was also an ancient Harari alias for the Somali people. Somalis...
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1270. Ifat first emerged when Umar ibn Dunya-huz, later to be known as Sultan Umar Walasma, carved out his own kingdom and conquered the Sultanate of Showa...
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The Ajuran Sultanate (Somali: Saldanadda Ajuuraan, Arabic: سلطنة الأجورانية), natively referred to as Ajuuraan, and often simply Ajuran, was a medieval...
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quarreled in Ifat. According to historian Enrico Cerulli, in thirteenth century Sultan Umar Walasma founded the Ifat Sultanate in Ifat after overthrowing...
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