Significant1490 – 1517 · 27 years

Mahfuz's jihads

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Ifat · Fatagar · Dawaro

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Emir Mahfuz of Harar's annual Lenten jihads against Ethiopia, killed by Lebna Dengel in 1517, foreshadowed Gragn's wars.

Belligerents2

Adal Sultanate
Ethiopian Empire

ON THE MAPAdal SultanateEthiopian Empire (Medieval–Gondarine)

Conflict graph

PART OFAdal–Ethiopian wars (pre-Gragn)

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Mahfuz's jihads (1490 – 1517). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/mahfuz-s-jihads · Sources & methodology