Ibrahim III Gumsami

Ibrahim III, called Ibrahim Gumsami, was mai of the Kanem–Bornu Empire in the early 17th century, ruling approximately 1618–1625.

Life

Ibrahim was a son of mai Idris IV Alooma. His mother was named Gumsu, or bore the title gumsu, and she was "of the house of the Magaram". Ibrahim became mai in the early 17th century, succeeding his half-brother Muhammad VII Bukalmarami. The German explorer Heinrich Barth, who visited Bornu in the 1850s, noted that the Kanem–Bornu Empire's royal chronicles recorded that Ibrahim sent an embassy to Tripoli, then part of Ottoman Tripolitania. Ibrahim's reign was a prosperous time for the empire, according to a girgam translated by Richmond Palmer:
Ibrahim ruled for seven years. He died at Ngazargamu or at a site called Galagâti, and was succeeded as mai by another half-brother, Umar III al-Maqdisi.