Abd al-Shakur ibn Yusuf was Emir of Harar (1783–1794). He was the first Emir of Harar to give the neighboring Oromo gifts. He went to them in the first years of his reign, and brought with him bales of sheetings which he gave to the Alla and Nole Oromo. He may have done this to free the way for salt and other goods which had to be brought through their territories.R. A. Caulk, "Harar Town and Its Neighbours in the Nineteenth Century", Journal of African History, 18 (1977), p. 372
Another example of his efforts to "civilize" the Oromo was his construction of a shrine to the Baghdadi saint `Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani near the tomb of Sheikh Hussein, which lies to the south deep in the territory of the Oromo people.J. Spencer Trimingham, Islam in Ethiopia (Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege for the University Press, 1952), pp. 253-256 His territory also extended into modern day Shewa mainly Aliyu Amba and Sar Amba.
Emir Abd al-Shakur's attempts to reform the administrative system of Harar, by reintroducing the institutions of sijill and diwan, is attested in a document dated to AD 1785/6.Ewald Wagner, "Three Arabic Documents on the History of Harar", Journal of Ethiopian Studies, 12 (1974), pp. 216-219
See also List of emirs of Harar Harar Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani Sheikh Hussein Notes