Boqor Ismaan Mahamuud's sultanate is nearly destroyed…

Boqor Ismaan Mahamuud's sultanate is nearly destroyed in the middle of the nineteenth century by a power struggle between him and his young, ambitious cousin, Keenadiid.

Nearly five years of destructive civil war pass before Boqor Ismaan Mahamuud manages to stave off the challenge of the young upstart, who is finally driven into exile in Arabia.