Sultan of Harrar (Adal, Ethiopia), Nour-ibn-Al-Ouazir succeeds Ahmed Gragne, encouraged by its widow, in 1543. It strengthens Harrar after the defeat of Ouaïna-Dega. In 1545, the Galla devastate its kingdom, bringing the famine.

In 1550, the Ethiopian ones counteract the first Nour-ibn-Al-Ouazir aggressions. Harrar is ransacked. Five years later, Nour-ibn-Al-Ouazir invades the Fatajar. The négus Claudius is beaten and decapitated during a battle the day of the Good Friday. Its head is carried in Harrar and is presented to the widow of Gragne, then exposed during three years at the top of a pillar.

Starting from 1563, the négus Sarsa-Dengel attacks Adal, which was going to be combined with the governor of the Tigré Yésahq, most dangerous of large. It definitively destroys on the Ouébi the reconstituted army of Harrar. The sultanate of Adal will be established in the middle of the desert of Dancalie, close to the lakes of the Aoussa, far from the attacks of the Galla, where he survives one century. The city of Harrar becomes independent.