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{{short description|Former Somali kingdom and sultanate located in the Horn of Africa}}
{{Infobox country
|native_name ={{lang|ar|سلطنة العدلية|rtl=yes}}
|conventional_long_name = Sultanate of Adal
|common_name = Adal
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|*[[Dakkar(Aw-Barkhadle)|Dakkar]] (new capital, as Sultanate from 1420–1520) <br><ref>{{cite journalbook |last1=Wagner |first1=Ewald |title=The Genealogy of the later Walashma' Sultans of Adal and Harar |journal=Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft |year=1991 |volume=141 |issue=2 |pages=376–386 |publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag |jstorpage=433783361 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43378336?seq=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Chekroun |first1=Amélie |title=Dakar, capitale du sultanat éthiopien du Barr Sa'dSa‘d ad-dīn (1415-1520) |publisher=Cahiers d’Études africaines |url=https://journals.openedition.org/etudesafricaines/18225}}</ref>▼
|*[[Siyara]] (first capital of the Adal on [[Sabr ad-Din II]]'s return to Somali lands)
*[[Zeila]] (former [[Ifat Sultanate]] capital, Adal capital from 1415–1420)
▲*[[Dakkar(Aw-Barkhadle)|Dakkar]] (new capital, as Sultanate from 1420–1520) <br><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wagner |first1=Ewald |title=The Genealogy of the later Walashma' Sultans of Adal and Harar |journal=Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft |year=1991 |volume=141 |issue=2 |pages=376–386 |publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag |jstor=43378336 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43378336}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Chekroun |first1=Amélie |title=Dakar, capitale du sultanat éthiopien du Barr Sa'd ad-dīn (1415-1520) |publisher=Cahiers d’Études africaines |url=https://journals.openedition.org/etudesafricaines/18225}}</ref>
*[[Harar]] 1520–1577
*[[Asaita|Aussa]] 1577–1577}}
|common_languages = [[SomaliArabic]], [[Afar language|SomaliAfar]], [[HarariArgobba language|HarariArgobba]], [[AfarHarari language|AfarHarari]], and [[ArabicSomali language|Somali]]
|government_type = [[Monarchy|Kingdom]]
|title_leader = [[Sultan]], [[Imam]], [[Emir]]
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D. Fage Page 83</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Jama |first1=Mohamed |title=An Introduction to Somali History from 5000 Years B.C. Down to the Present Time |year=1962 |pages=27 |url=httpshttp://books.google.comca/books?id=Y14MAQAAIAAJ&q=An+Introduction+to+Somali+History+from+5000+Years+B.C+adal+somali+kingdom&dq=An+Introduction+to+Somali+History+from+5000+Years+B.C+adal+somali+kingdom&hl=no&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjM1IjEjKvvAhXm-yoKHYgDA7MQ6AEwAHoECAMQAg |access-date= |language=en}}</ref> It was founded by [[Sabr ad-Din II]] after the fall of the [[Sultanate of Ifat]]. The kingdom flourished from around 1415 to 1577.<ref name="The Cross and the River: Ethiopia, Egypt, and the Nile">{{cite journal | last =Elrik | first =Haggai | title =The Cambridge History of Africa: From c. 1050 to c. 1600 | journal =Basic Reference | volume =28 | pages =36 | publisher =Lynne Rienner | location = USA | year =2007 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=mhCN2qo43jkC&pg=PA36 | doi = 10.1017/S0020743800063145| access-date =2012-04-27}}</ref> The sultanate and state were established by the local inhabitants of [[Zeila]].<ref>{{cite journal | last =Fage | first =J.D | title =The Cambridge History of Africa: From c. 1050 to c. 1600 | journal =ISIM Review | issue =Spring 2005 | pages =169 | publisher =Cambridge University Press | location =UK | year =2010 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=Qwg8GV6aibkC&pg=PA146 | isbn =9780521209816 | access-date =2009-04-10 }}{{Dead link|date=June 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="Shinn">{{cite book|author=David Hamilton Shinn & Thomas P. Ofcansky|title=Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia|year=2004|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=0810849100|pages=5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ep7__RWqq4IC&pg=PA5 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BOn3ykfBN-0C&q=barkhadle&pg=PA377|title=Localising Salafism: Religious Change Among Oromo Muslims in Bale, Ethiopia|last=Østebø|first=Terje|date=2011-09-30|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-9004184787|language=en}}</ref> At its height, the polity under Sultan [[Badlay ibn Sa'ad ad-Din|Badlay]] controlled the territory stretching from [[Somaliland]] to the port city of [[Suakin]] in [[Sudan]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Owens |first1=Travis |title=BELEAGUERED MUSLIM FORTRESSES AND ETHIOPIAN IMPERIAL EXPANSION FROM THE 13TH TO THE 16TH CENTURY |publisher=NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL |page=23 |url=https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a483490.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Pouwels |first1=Randall |title=The History of Islam in Africa |date=31 March 2000 |publisher=Ohio University Press |page=229 |isbn=9780821444610 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J1Ipt5A9mLMC&q=Sawakin+adal&pg=PA229}}</ref> The Adal Empire maintained a robust commercial and political relationship with the [[Ottoman Empire]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Salvadore|first1=Matteo|title=The African Prester John and the Birth of Ethiopian-European Relations, 1402–1555|date=2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1317045465|page=158|url=https://www.google.com/books?id=BQ5qDAAAQBAJ|access-date=18 March 2018}}</ref>
 
==Etymology==
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[[Islam]] was introduced to the Horn region early on from the [[Arabian peninsula]], shortly after the [[Hijra (Islam)|hijra]]. Zeila's two-[[mihrab]] [[Masjid al-Qiblatayn (Somalia)|Masjid al-Qiblatayn]] dates to about the 7th century, and is the oldest [[mosque]] in [[Africa]].<ref name="Btgpb">{{cite book | last=Briggs| first=Phillip| title=Somaliland| year=2012| publisher=Bradt Travel Guides| isbn=978-1841623719| page=7| url=https://www.google.com/books?id=M6NI2FejIuwC}}</ref> In the late 9th century, [[Al-Yaqubi]] wrote that Muslims were living along the northern Somali seaboard.<ref name="Encyamer"/><ref name="Lewispohoa"/> The polity was governed by local [[Somalis|Somali]] dynasties established by the Adelites.<ref name="Leo">{{cite book | last1=Africanus| first1=Leo| title=The History and Description of Africa| date=1526| publisher=Hakluyt Society| pages=51–54| url=https://archive.org/stream/historyanddescr03porygoog#page/n180/mode/2up}}</ref> Adal's history from this founding period forth would be characterized by a succession of battles with neighbouring [[Ethiopian Empire|Abyssinia]].<ref name="Lewispohoa"/>
 
[[Yusuf bin Ahmad al-Kawneyn]] was born in Zeila during the Adal Kingdom period. Al-Kawneyn is a Somali Muslim saint.<ref name="Lewis">{{cite book |last1=Lewis |first1=I. M. |title=The Red Sea Press |date=1998 |publisher=Red Sea Press |isbn=978-1-56902-103-3 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/saintssomalispop00lewi/page/89 |access-date=25 April 2021 |chapter=Saints and Somalis: Popular Islam in a Clan-based Society}}</ref> He is believed to be the founder and ancestor of the royal family known as the [[Walashma Dynasty]], which later governed both the [[Ifat Sultanate]] and the Adal Sultanate during the Middle Ages.<ref name="Lewis"/><ref>{{cite book | author1=Nehemia Levtzion| author2=Randall Pouwels| title=The History of Islam in Africa |date=Mar 31, 2000| publisher=Ohio University Press| pages=242| language=en}}</ref>
 
===Rise of the sultanate===
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==Ethnicity==
[[File:Map of horn kingdoms and sultanates.png|thumb|right|Medieval map of peoples, kingdoms and regions alongside major trade routes in the [[Horn of Africa|Horn]]]]
The [[Walashma dynasty]] of the Ifat and Adal sultanates possessed [[Somalis|Somali]] genealogical traditions.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mire |first1=Sada |title=Divine Fertility: The Continuity in Transformation of an Ideology of Sacred Kinship in Northeast Africa |date=5 February 2020 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-429-76924-5 |url=https://books.google.comca/books?id=J6nODwAAQBAJ&qpg=PA69&dq=Walashma+somali+genealogies&pghl=PA69no&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwik54nfi6vvAhVGr4sKHTDmCWEQ6AEwAHoECAAQAg#v=onepage&q=Walashma%20somali%20genealogies&f=false |access-date= |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Lewis|first1=I. M|title=Saints and Somalis: Popular Islam in a Clan-based Society|url=https://archive.org/details/saintssomalispop00lewi|url-access=registration|date=1998|publisher=The Red Sea Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/saintssomalispop00lewi/page/89 89]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author-link=Nehemia Levtzion|author1=Nehemia Levtzion|author2=Randall Pouwels|title=The History of Islam in Africa|date=Mar 31, 2000|publisher=Ohio University Press|pages=242|language=en|quote=Aw Barkhadle, is the founder and ancestor of the Walashma dynasty}}</ref>
 
During Adal's early period, when it was centred on the city of Zeila in the present-day northwestern Awdal region, the kingdom was primarily composed of [[Somali people|Somalis]] (Predominantly), [[Afar people|Afars]], [[Harari people|Hararis]],[[Oromos]], and [[Arab people|Arabs]].<ref name="Shinn">{{cite book|author=David Hamilton Shinn & Thomas P. Ofcansky|title=Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia|year=2004|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=0810849100|pages=5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ep7__RWqq4IC&pg=PA5 }}</ref><ref name="Mekonnen">{{cite book|author=Y. Mekonnen|title=Ethiopia: The Land, Its People, History and Culture|date=April 2013|publisher=New Africa Pres|isbn=9789987160242|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q0pZPp032c0C&q=Edwald+Wagner+connects+the+name&pg=PA40}}</ref><ref name="Reference">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K-XkCwAAQBAJ&q=Adal+Sultanate+ethnicity&pg=PA9|title = Somalia Business Law Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information and Basic Laws|date = June 2015|isbn = 9781514501917}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=The Dynamics of a unfinished African dream |author= Mohammed Kheir Omar| pagespp= 18–19.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |author=Al Shami |title= Al Manhal fi Tarikh wa Akhbat Al Danakil | pagep= 216.}}</ref>
 
Here the Portuguese infantries had their first glimpse of Ahmad. Their views were recorded by Miguel de Castanhoso, a soldier on the expedition who wrote the official Portuguese account:
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[[File:Zeila ruins.jpeg|thumb|left|Ruins of the Sultanate of Adal in Zeila]]
The [[Ethiopian–Adal war]] was a military conflict between the [[Ethiopian Empire]] (Abyssinia) and the Adal Sultanate that took place from 1529 until 1543. Abyssinian troops consisted of [[Maya (Ethiopia)|Maya]], [[Amhara people|Amhara]], [[Tigrayan]] and [[Agaw]] ethnic groups.<ref>The Ethiopian Borderlands: Essays in Regional History from Ancient Times to the End of the 18th Century pg 188</ref> Adal forces consisted mostly of [[Afar people|Afar]], [[Somalis|Somali]], [[Harla]], [[Argobba people|Argobba]], and [[Arab]] formations, supported by the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottomans]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Gikes|first1=Patrick|title=Wars in the Horn of Africa and the dismantling of the Somali State|journal=African Studies|date=2002|volume=2|pages=89–102|publisher=University of Lisbon|url=https://cea.revues.org/1280|access-date=7 November 2016}}</ref>
 
In the mid-1520s, [[Imam]] [[Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi]] assumed control of Adal and launched a war against Abyssinia, which was then under the leadership of [[Dawit II]] (Lebna Dengel). Supplied by the [[Ottoman Empire]] with firearms, Ahmad was able to defeat the Abyssinians at the [[Battle of Shimbra Kure]] in 1529 and seize control of the wealthy [[Ethiopian highlands]], though the Abyssinians continued to resist from the highlands. In 1541, the [[Portugal|Portuguese]], who had vested interests in the [[Indian Ocean]], eventually sent aid to the Abyssinians in the form of 400 [[musketeers]]. Adal, in response, received 900 from the Ottomans.
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==Collapse of the sultanate==
[[File:Zayla.jpg|thumb|Ruins of the Adal Sultanate in Zeila, Awdal]]
After the death of Imam Ahmad, the Adal Sultanate lost most of its territory in Abyssinian lands. In 1550 [[Nur ibn Mujahid]] assumed power after he killed Abyssinian emperor [[Gelawdewos]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Button|first1=Richard|title=First Footsteps in East Africa|year=1894|publisher=Tyston and Edwards|page=12|isbn=9780705415002|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mu0MAAAAIAAJ&q=nur+harar+rule&pg=PA12|access-date=21 January 2016}}</ref> Due to constant Oromo raids both Adal and Abyssinian rulers struggled to consolidate power outside of their realms. The Adal Sultanate subsequently ended due to infighting with tribes.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Abir|first1=Mordechai|title=Ethiopia and the Red Sea|date=28 October 2013|publisher=Routledge|page=139|isbn=9781136280900|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7fArBgAAQBAJ&q=adal+aussa+sultanate&pg=PA139|access-date=21 January 2016}}</ref> The Adal Sultanate was weakened after the death of Emir Nur due to the Oromo raids in 1577 and its headquarter were relocated to the oasis of [[Asaita|Aussa]] in the Danakil desert under the leadership of Mohammed Jasa. The [[Imamate of Aussa]] declined gradually in the next century and was destroyed by the local [[Afar people|Afar]] nomads in 1672.
 
==Oromo expansion==
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