Ibrahim was a son of
mai Idris IV Alooma. 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 (regnal list) 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. == Notes ==