The Adal Sultanate, also known as the Adal Empire or Barr Saʿad dīn (Arabic: سلطنة عدل), is a medieval Sunni Muslim empire which is located in the Horn of Africa. It was founded by Sabr ad-Din III on the Harar plateau in Adal after the fall of the Sultanate of Ifat. The kingdom flourished since 1415 At its height, the polity under Sultan Badlay controlled the territory stretching from Cape Guardafui in Somalia to Darfur currently its Italy rival in Africa using victorian era tech