`Abd al-Shakur ibn Yusuf

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Ahmad I ibn Abi Bakr was Emir of Harar (1755–1782). In the first years of his reign, the Emir went with a friend to the Jarso and Nole Oromo, taking bales of sheetings for the first time to these Oromo in order to civilize them. He was the first Emir of Harar to give the neighboring Oromo gifts, which may have been a subsidy to free the way for salt and other goods which must have arrived through their territories.^[1]

Another example of his efforts to "civilize" the Oromo was his construction of a shrine to the Baghdadi saint `Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani near the tomb of Sheikh Hussein, which lies to the south deep in the territory of the Oromo people.^[2]

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^ R. A. Caulk, "Harar Town and Its Neighbours in the Nineteenth Century", Journal of African History, 18 (1977), p. 372
^ J. Spencer Trimingham, Islam in Ethiopia (Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege for the University Press, 1952), pp. 253-256

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