Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi

Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi (Somali: Axmed Ibraahim al-Qaasi or Ahmed Gurey2, Harari: አህመድ ኢብራሂም አል-ጋዚ, Arabic: أحمد بن إبراهيم الغازي‎ ; c. 1506 – 21 February 1543) was an Imam and General of the Adal Sultanate who fought against the Ethiopian Empire. With the help of an army overwhelmingly manned by ethnic Somalis, supplemented with the Hadiya, Afars, Hararis and a small number of Ottoman Arabs and Turks. Imam Ahmad (nicknamed Gurey in Somali, Gura in Afar and Gragn in Amharic (ግራኝ Graññ), all meaning "the left-handed"), embarked on a conquest which brought three-quarters of Abyssinia (modern day Ethiopia) under the power of the Muslim Sultanate of Adal during the Ethiopian-Adal War.

Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi

Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi (Somali: Axmed Ibraahim al-Qaasi or Ahmed Gurey2, Harari: አህመድ ኢብራሂም አል-ጋዚ, Arabic: أحمد بن إبراهيم الغازي‎ ; c. 1506 – 21 February 1543) was an Imam and General of the Adal Sultanate who fought against the Ethiopian Empire. With the help of an army overwhelmingly manned by ethnic Somalis, supplemented with the Hadiya, Afars, Hararis and a small number of Ottoman Arabs and Turks. Imam Ahmad (nicknamed Gurey in Somali, Gura in Afar and Gragn in Amharic (ግራኝ Graññ), all meaning "the left-handed"), embarked on a conquest which brought three-quarters of Abyssinia (modern day Ethiopia) under the power of the Muslim Sultanate of Adal during the Ethiopian-Adal War.