Adlan I (reigned 1606 - 1611/12) was a ruler of the
Kingdom of Sennar
The Funj Sultanate, also known as Funjistan, Sultanate of Sennar (after its capital Sennar) or Blue Sultanate (due to the traditional Sudanese convention of referring to black people as blue) (), was a monarchy in what is now Sudan, northwester ...
.
Life
He was the son of Ayat, although
James Bruce
James Bruce of Kinnaird (14 December 1730 – 27 April 1794) was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who physically confirmed the source of the Blue Nile. He spent more than a dozen years in North and East Africa and in 1770 became the fir ...
writes he was the son of
Unsa I and the brother of
Abd al-Qadir, whom he deposed and exiled from Sennar. Adlan was, in turn, deposed by his nephew
Badi.
During his reign, Sennar was at peace with its neighbor,
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Ken ...
. The Ethiopian ''Royal Chronicles'' mention that Adlan sent a team of fine horses to Emperor
Susenyos as gifts.
[ H. Weld Blundell, ''The Royal chronicle of Abyssinia, 1769-1840'' (Cambridge: University Press, 1922), p. 530.]
References
Funj sultans
17th-century monarchs in Africa
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