Bati del Wambara

Bati del Wambara (fl. 1531, literally Victory is her seat)[1] was the Harari[2] daughter of Mahfuz, Emir of Harar in Ethiopia and later Governor of Zeila. She married Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi and accompanied him in his jihad[3] to make Ethiopia a Muslim province.[1] During this expedition, she gave birth to two sons - Muhammad in 1531 and Ahmad in 1533.[1]

After Imam ibn Ibrahim's death, she married the successive Emir of Adal, Nur ibn Mujahid. This was a political marriage aiming to enforce Nur's legitimacy. She is supposed to have pushed him into reviving the jihad in order to avenge the death of the Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim[4]

References
  1. Rita Pankhurst - Women of Power in Ethiopia: Struggle and Loss Archived 2015-08-08 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Baynes-Rock, Marcus (21 September 2015). Among the Bone Eaters. Penn State Press. ISBN 9780271074047. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  3. Sihab ad-Din Ahmad, in his Futuh al-Habasa (translated by Paul Lester Stenhouse with annotations by Richard Pankhurst [Hollywood: Tsehai, 2003]) consistently uses the word "Jihad" to refer to Ahmad Gragn's conquest of Ethiopia.
  4. Doresse, Jean (1970). Histoire de l'Ethiopie. PUF.


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