Ali Yusuf Kenadid

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Ali Yusuf Kenadid
علي يوسف كينايديض
Sultan of the Sultanate of Hobyo
File:Sultan Ali Yusuf Kenadid.jpg
Reign early 1900s–1926
Predecessor Yusuf Ali Kenadid
Successor n/a
Dynasty Majeerteen Dynasty
Father Yusuf Ali Kenadid
Religion Islam

Ali Yusuf Kenadid (Somali: Cali Yuusuf Keenadiid, Arabic: علي يوسف كينايديض‎‎) was a Somali ruler. He was the second Sultan of the Sultanate of Hobyo.

History

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Ali Yusuf was born into a Majeerteen Darod family. His father, Sultan Yusuf Ali Kenadid, was the founder of the Sultanate of Hobyo centered in present-day northeastern and central Somalia. The polity was established in the 1870s on territory carved out of the ruling Majeerteen Sultanate (Migiurtinia).[1] Ali Yusuf's brother, Osman Yusuf Kenadid, would go on to invent the Osmanya writing script for the Somali language.[2]

In an attempt to advance his own expansionist objectives, Kenadid père in late 1888 entered into a treaty with the Italians, making his realm an Italian protectorate.[3] The terms of the agreement specified that Italy was to steer clear of any interference in the sultanate's administration.[4]

However, the relationship between Hobyo and Italy soured when the elder Kenadid refused the Italians' proposal to allow a British contingent of troops to disembark in his Sultanate so that they might then pursue their battle against the Somali religious and nationalist leader Mohammed Abdullah Hassan's Dervish forces.[3] Viewed as too much of a threat by the Italians, Sultan Kenadid was eventually exiled to Aden in Yemen and then to Eritrea, as was his son Ali Yusuf, the heir apparent to his throne.[5] However, unlike the southern territories, the northern sultanates were not subject to direct rule due to the earlier treaties they had signed with the Italians.[6]

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Notes

  1. Helen Chapin Metz, Somalia: a country study, (The Division: 1993), p.10.
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  3. 3.0 3.1 The Majeerteen Sultanates
  4. Issa-Salwe (1996:34–35)
  5. Sheik-ʻAbdi (1993:129)
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