Nur Ahmed Aman

Sultan Nur Ahmed Aman سلطان نور أحمد أمان
3rd Sultan of the Habr Yunis Sultanate
Sultan Nur (centre) in the Tuuyo plains (1896)
Reign	1879-1907
Predecessor	Hersi Aman
Successor	Dolal Nur, Awad Deria
Born	1841 Oodweyne, Habr Yunis Sultanate
Died	1907 Taleh, British Somaliland (now Somaliland)
House	Ainanshe
Religion	Sufi Islam

Sultan Nur Ahmed Aman (Somali: Suldaan Nuur Axmed Amaan; (1841–1907); Somali nickname Nuur Dheere^[1]), was a learned religious leader and the 5th Sultan of the Habr Yunis Sultanate and later also one of the leaders behind the Somali Dervish movement and revolt (1899–1920).^[2] He was the principal agitator rallying the followers of the Kob Fardod Tariqa behind his anti-French Roman Catholic Mission campaign that would become the cause of the Dervish uprising.^[3] He assisted in assembling men and arms and hosted the revolting tribesmen in his quarter at Burao in August 1899, declaring the Dervish rebellion. He fought and led the war throughout the years 1899–1904. He and his brother Geleh Ahmed^[4] (Kila Ahmed) were the main signatories of the Dervish peace treaty with the British, Ethiopians and Italian colonial powers on March 5, 1905, known as the Ilig Treaty or the Pestalozza agreement.^[5] Sultan Nur is entombed in a white-domed shrine in Taleh, the location of the largest Dervish forts and the capital of the Dervish from 1912 to 1920, a testimony to his contribution in creating the movement.