63
600–1312/1203–1894
The island of Pate, off the modern Kenyan coastland
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600/1203 |
Sulayman b. Muẓaffar |
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628/1227 |
Muḥammad b. Sulaymān |
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650/1252 |
Aḥmad b. Sulaymān |
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670/1272 |
Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Sulaymān |
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705/1305 |
Muḥammad b. Aḥmad |
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732/1332 |
Umar b. Muḥammad |
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749/1348 |
Muḥammad b. ‘Umar |
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797/1395 |
Aḥmad b. ‘Umar |
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840/1436 |
Abū Bakr b. Muḥammad |
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875/1470 |
Muḥammad b. Abī Bakr |
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900/1495 |
Abū Bakr b. Muḥammad |
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945/1538 |
Bwana Mkuu I b. Muḥammad |
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973/1565 |
Muḥammad b. Abī Bakr |
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1002/1594 |
Bwana Bakari I b. Bwana Mkuu I |
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1011/1602 |
Abū Bakr Bwana Gogo b. Muḥammad |
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1061/1651 |
Bwana Mkuu II b. Bwana Bakari I |
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1100/1689 |
Bwana Bakari II b. Bwana Mkuu II |
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1103/1692 |
Aḥmad b. Abī Bakr |
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1111/1699 |
Bwana Tamu Mkuu, Abū Bakr b. Muḥammad Bwana Mtiti |
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1152/1739 |
Aḥmad b. Abī Bakr b. Muḥammad |
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1160/1747 |
Bwana Tamu Mtoto, Abū Bakr |
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1177/1763 |
Mwana Khadīja bt. Bwana Mkuu b. Abī Bakr Bwana Gogo |
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1187/1773 |
Bwana Mkuu b. Shehe b. Abī Bakr Bwana Tamu Mkuu |
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1191/1777 |
Bwana Fumo Madi, Muḥammad b. Abī Bakr Bwana Tamu Mtoto |
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1224/1809 |
Aḥmad b. Shehe b. Fumo Luti |
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1230/1815 |
Fumo Luti Kipanga b. Bwana Fumo Madi |
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1236/1821 |
Fumo Luti b. Shehe b. Fumo Luti |
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1236/1821 |
Bwana Shehe b. Muḥammad Bwana Fumo Madi, first reign |
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1239/1824 |
Aḥmad, Bwana Waziri b. Bwana Tamu b. Shehe, first reign |
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1241/1826 |
Bwana Shehe, second reign |
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1247/1831 |
Aḥmad, Bwana Waziri, second reign |
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1250/1835 |
Fumo Bakari b. Bwana Shehe |
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1262/1846 |
Aḥmad b. Shehe b. Fumo Luti |
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1273/1857 |
Aḥmad Simba b. Fumo Luti b. Shehe |
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1306/1889 |
Fumo Bakari b. Aḥmad, d. 1308/1891, ruler in Witu |
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1308/1890 |
Bwana Shehe b. Aḥmad b. Shehe |
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1308–12/1890–4 |
Fumo Omari b. Aḥmad b. Shehe, last ruler in Pate |
|
1312/1894 |
British rule |
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1312-after 1326/ |
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1894-after 1908 |
Omar Madi, under British suzerainty |
This line of rulers apparently stemmed from the same tribal group as the Nabhānīs ruling in Oman before the Ya’rubids (see above, no. 53), though probably not from the Nabhānī ruling family. They ruled the island of Pate in the Lamu archipelago off the Kenyan coast from the thirteenth century onwards under Omani suzerainty, after 1109/1698 (the date when the Omanis took Mombasa from the Portuguese) paying customs dues to Zanzibar. The rulers of Pate also controlled Witu on the mainland, but came under British control at the end of the nineteenth century. A remarkably full list of the rulers of Pate is to be found in the Swahili oral traditional history of the family, only written down at the end of the nineteenth century (see the bibliography below); the dates in it, followed faute de mieux in the above table, should obviously be regarded as very approximate.
EI 2 ‘Lamu’, ‘Pate’ (G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville).
G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville (tr. and introd.), Habari za Pate: the History of Pate…, unpublished paper.
J. S. Kirkman, ‘The early history of Oman in East Africa’, Journal of Oman Studies VI (1980), 41–58, with lists of the rulers of Pate and the Nabhānīs at pp. 56–7.