Ajuran

The Ajuran Sultanate was a Somali Muslim realm in the Horn of Africa, ruled by the Garen family. In 1337 it held Mogadishu as a client and governed coastal and riverine towns from Merca.

In the 1580s Ajuran coastal clients joined an Ottoman corsair against the Portuguese, driving them from ports including Mombasa. By the late seventeenth century taxation and revolts had weakened the sultanate: the Hiraab Imamate took Mogadishu, while Ibrahim Adeer founded the Gobroon dynasty. Ajuran rule had disappeared from Banaadir by the early eighteenth century.