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Nur ibn Mujahid

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56: 316:, or "Master of the Second Conquest". She had reportedly made him promise to devote to avenging the death of Ahmad before agreeing to marry him. Contemporary Harari records describes Nur as a very religious ruler who abstained from every act forbidden by the Sharia and likewise wanted his people to follow his example in their lives, explicitly prohibiting un-Islamic behavior among the nobility. 401:
narrates "Emir Nur exerted every effort to help his people to recover, but after every respite the Oromo would again descend like locusts and scourge the country, and Nur himself eventually died of the pestilence which spread during the famine."
289:, undertook to renew the fortunes of the Kingdom. She inspired her people to take revenge and the Adalites, believing that they Abyssinians were vulnerable, invaded the highlands in 1548. This ended in catastrophe when they were repulsed by 354:
hoping to force the Muslims back. But Nur held on, hoping to deal the Abyssinians a decisive blow in their own country. Hamalmal was able to enter Harar without any significant resistance, capturing and executing Sultan
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Despite this victory, the following years were very difficult for Harar. The Oromos who had been migrating north invaded the Adal Sultanate and annihilated Nur's army at the
382:, there had been "no such slaughter since the Oromo first invaded". This was followed by a mass migration which sent different groups fleeing from their ancestral homes. 335:. This venture was unsuccessful, Nur was defeated and the Abyssinians then advanced into Adalite territory. However, this defeat was not mortal and Adal soon recovered. 397:
highlands which had been abandoned by the local population. After the Oromos had settled in the surrounding countryside of Harar, the city experienced a severe famine.
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who himself was the son of Garaad Ali who was from a well established noble family. Mujahid married Ahmad’s sister, from which marriage Nur was born.
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Hervé Pennec, Pedro Paez's History of Ethiopia, 1622 (Christopher Tribe trad.) (Paris: Centre d'Etudes des Mondes Africains, 2011),
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The nowadays oral tradition attributes the Marrehan origin to Nur which means from the famous Somali Marrehan tribe of Darod group.
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considered Nur to be "from the tribe of the Suhawyan", which according to Solomon Gebreyes Beyene could be the name of an
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to loot the palace and the capital of the deceased emperor before promptly returning to his country. The severed head of
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Nur ibn Mujahid was the son of Wazir Mujahid ibn 'Ali ibn 'Abdallah ad-Duhi Suha, one of the cavalry commanders of Imam
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It might be the name of a tribe of Afar or Somali, which were claimed to be under the territory of ʿAdal.
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The Ethiopian Borderlands: Essays in Regional History from Ancient Times to the End of the 18th Century
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The Ethiopian Borderlands Essays in Regional History from Ancient Times to the End of the 18th Century
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Some historians consider Nur as the last witness and protagonist of Islamic greatness in the
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In 1559, urged on by his wife, Nur once again took the offensive and invaded
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was brought to Harar where it was put on display for the people to witness.
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Akyeampong, Emmanuel Kwaku; Jr, Professor Henry Louis Gates (2012-02-02).
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Memoria della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Vol. 4, No. 2, Rome, 1931
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documents from the time also give him the prestigious title of
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Nur was promoted to Emir between 1548 and 1550, and married
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Most of the Muslim population fled to the walled city of
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Index

Emir
Adal
Emir
Harar
Amir al-Mu'minin

Harar
Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi
Uthman the Abyssinian
Bati del Wambara
Islam
Harari:
Somali
Arabic
Emir
Harar
Adal Sultanate
his uncle's
Bati del Wambara
Muslim
Christian Ethiopia
Adel
Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi
Mohammed Hassen
Harari people
Enrico Cerulli
Somali
Marehan
Darod
Gelawdewos

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