Ali Dinar
Ali Dinar was a Sultan of the Sultanate of Darfur and ruler from the Keira dynasty.
In 1898, with the decline of the Mahdists, He managed to regain Darfurs independence.
. He was killed by British forces in 1916, and the sword is kept at the British Museum.
A rebellion led by him in 1915—in the context of his giving his support to the Ottoman Empire during the First World War—provoked the British to launch a punitive expedition, the Anglo-Egyptian Darfur Expedition, in which he was killed, After which his Sultanate was incorporated into the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium.
