Nasra bint ʿAdlan (Arabic: نصرة بنت عدلان; fl.1800s – 1850s) was a Sudanese noblewoman, power-broker, estate manager and enslaver, whose court was visited by Karl Richard Lepsius.
[1] Her mother was a princess of the Funj royal house;[2] her father Muhammed 'Adlan was an aristocrat and military commander, descended from Muhammad Abu Likaylik.
After the death of Sandaluba, bint 'Adlan remarried, this time to Daf ʿ Allah Muhammad, who was a district governor at Wad Madani.
[1] As the manager of her own estates, and connected to high-ranking officials through her family and wealth, bint 'Adlan was an influential woman in the region.
[1] The archaeologist Karl Richard Lepsius had visited bint 'Adlan and an account of her life was published in 1853 in his work Letters from Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Peninsula of Sinai.