Mystery Sultans of Mogadishu

[James Dahl]

I have come across a list of Sultans of Mogadishu, from either the Muzaffar or Fakr ad-Din dynasties, on struck coinage minted in Mogadishu between 1300 and 1500.

Does anyone know anything about these guys? I've never heard of any of them. The Muzaffar Sultans were Zenj, affiliated with Kilwa, until the Ajuran toppled them and replaced them with Fakr ad-Din, who made Mogadishu a vassal and protectorate of the Ajuran empire. When the Hawiye defeated the Ajuran, they took over Mogadishu.

They are probably all Muzaffar sultans, since the Fakr ad-Din dynasty wouldn't strike their own coinage, since they no longer had economic independence and the Ajuran would have demanded tribute in Durra, not Silver.

Yusuf b. Sa`id
al-Dibr
Sultan `Umar
al-Sultaniyya al-Mujahidiyya
`Abd al-`Aziz
al-`Adil Muhammad
`Ali b. Yusuf
Sultan Zubayr b. `Umar

[Somali-Transporter]

I Heard of ajuuran empire and many Sultans..

Laakin where did you get all there names from??

[James Dahl]

I searched the American Numismatic Society's curatorial database of coins for "mogadishu", and surprizingly the search included some Muzaffar era coins.

http://64.81.216.220/cgi-bin/objsearch?header=simple

Those were the rulers who struck the coinage.

Does anyone know the geneaology of the Ajuran sultans, so we can compare the list? Historians have been debating for some time as to whether the Garen, the ruling family of the Ajuran, ruled Mogadishu, or whether they ruled through a puppet.

The last sultan of the Ajuran, Olol Dinle, claimed to be a descendant of the Muzaffars.

[paidmonk]

These sound like Camel Jockey names..whose history are you claiming as ours?

[James Dahl]

Also, am I imagining things, or does al-Sultaniyya al-Mujahidiyya mean "The Sultana of the Holy Struggle"
A mujahid queen, she might have been the one who chased the Galla out of the Shabelle Valley!

[James Dahl]

[quote="paidmonk"]These sound like Camel Jockey names..whose history are you claiming as ours? [/quote]

It's not really Somali history in the exact sense, these rulers are all Benadiri. Mogadishu wouldn't become Somali until the Hawiye invaded in the early 1600s.

[Somali-Transporter]

You are Calling our history Jokes..!

[paidmonk]

I see, so Hutu's invaded Xamar twice and changed its history?

[Somali-Transporter]

Ajuuran ruled somalia with islam in 1200 until 1800, after that Hawiye unit chased ajuuran..!

[Somali-Transporter]

Yusuf b. Sa`id
al-Dibr
Sultan `Umar
al-Sultaniyya al-Mujahidiyya
`Abd al-`Aziz
al-`Adil Muhammad
`Ali b. Yusuf
Sultan Zubayr b. `Umar

Was in Mogadishu becomes they was spreading Islam to somalia with the help of Ajuuran..!

[neocon_2007]

The only legitimate ethnic Somali Sultanate that existed was that of the Royal Warsangeli. Hawiye the confedracy needs to stop claiming the Ajuuran of Mogdushio who were a mixed group of non-Somalis and Midgos

[e!]

History repeats itself, the hutus drive out the innocent shanshi and 800 years later they drive out the royal family of somalia, the Majeerteen

[James Dahl]

Mogadishu's history is really weird. It is actually three cities with entirely different origins. Shingani was founded by the Sabaeans in the 2nd century, Hamar Weyne by Arabs in the 5th, and "Mogadishu" by Farsis and Kurds from Iran in the 10th, who established a monarchy (until then it was a sort of merchant republic) who ruled until the Hawiye deposed them.

These people, over the centuries, mixed together and became the Benadiri or Reer Hamar.

[IRONm@N]

there are all hawiye!

the Ajuuraan Dynasty!

[Somali-Transporter]

Ironm@n I Agree with you..!

They was all Hawiye..! The ajuuran..!

real hawiye born son of Hawiye irir samaale..!