Ali Yusuf Kenadid

Ali Yusuf Kenadid was the second and last Sultan of Hobyo, the son and successor of its founder Yusuf Ali Kenadid and a brother of Osman Yusuf Kenadid, inventor of the Osmanya script for the Somali language. ¹ No source read gives his birth date, and his own article's sources conflict on his death year, as set out in full below.

Ali Yusuf was born into a Majeerteen Darod family and was his father's heir apparent. ¹ When Kenadid the father entered in late 1888 into a treaty making Hobyo an Italian protectorate, its terms barred Italy from interfering in the sultanate's administration; the relationship then soured when the elder Kenadid refused the Italians' proposal to allow a British contingent to disembark in his sultanate to pursue Mohammed Abdullah Hassan's Dervish forces, and the Italians exiled the sultan to Aden and then to Eritrea, and his son Ali Yusuf, the heir apparent, with him. ^{1 2}

Ali Yusuf succeeded his father on his death in 1911; his article gives his coronation as 5 October and his reign as 28 September 1911 to 1925. ¹ With the end of his rule in Italy's Campaign of the Sultanates, Hobyo was integrated into Italian Somaliland in 1927, ending the sultanate his father had founded. ³

The lead of Ali Yusuf's article states that he died in 1927, without a visible citation in the text read, while the same article's infobox gives his death as 1936 at Mogadishu, citing a page about his tomb, and the article carries a photograph of his tomb as Sultan of Hobyo. ¹ The cited year 1936 is recorded in his data, with the lead's 1927 stated in full in the death note. The harvest queue's dates for him (1880–1940) are attested by no source read: no source gives him a birth year at all, and 1940 as a death year appears nowhere. The date should be revisited if a dated scholarly source for his death is found.

The only attestation of a religion for Ali Yusuf in the sources read is the infobox line of his own article, "Religion: Islam" — a single infobox attestation, which the two-source rule does not accept, and no source read names any school or order for him personally. His faith is therefore recorded as unknown in the data, with that single attestation stated in full in the faith note, since his father's and family's background is not attestation.

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