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Sunni Ali was born the son of Sonni Muhammad Da'o, who appears in the kinglists of the Tarikh al-Sudan and Tarikh al-Fattash as the 10th Sonni ruler. His mother was from Fara, an area that was still heavily pagan, and Ali was raised in this milieu. As a Sonni, he also received an Islamic education, but practiced a syncretic, unorthodox faith. [1]
Sunni Islam celebrates Ali for his dedication to the cause of Islam, for his piety, [17] wisdom, eloquence, courage on battlefield, and magnanimity in victory. [10] [3] Ali is moreover the common source of mystical and spiritual currents within both Sunni and Shia sects of Islam.
The Sonni dynasty, Sunni dynasty or Si dynasty was a dynasty of rulers of the Songhai Empire of medieval West Africa. The origins of the dynasty lies in its predecessor Za Dynasty . The last ruler, Sonni Baru , ruled until 1493 when the throne was usurped by the Askiya Muhammad I , the founder of the Askiya dynasty .
"he distinguished between the civilian and the army unlike Sunni Ali [1464–92] when everyone was a soldier." He opened religious schools, constructed mosques, and opened his court to scholars and poets from throughout the Muslim world. His children went to an Islamic school, and he enforced Islamic practices but did not force religion on his ...
A caliph is the supreme religious and political leader of an Islamic state known as the caliphate. [1] [2] Caliphs (also known as 'Khalifas') led the Muslim Ummah as political successors to the Islamic prophet Muhammad, [3] and widely-recognised caliphates have existed in various forms for most of Islamic history.
Ali was born to Abu Talib and his wife Fatima bint Asad around 600 CE, [1] some thirty years after the Year of the Elephant. [2] Shia and some Sunni sources report that Ali was the only person born in the Ka'ba, the ancient shrine in the city of Mecca which later became the most sacred site in Islam.
Muhammad was a prominent general under the Songhai ruler Sunni Ali. When Sunni Ali was succeeded by his son, Sunni Baru, in 1492, Muhammad challenged the succession on the grounds that the new ruler was not a faithful Muslim. [1] He defeated Baru and ascended to the throne in 1493. [2]
However, one of Sonni Ali's generals, Muhammad Ture, plotted to take power. Bāru was challenged by Muhammad because he was not seen as a faithful Muslim. [2] Ture was supported by the Muslim ulama of Timbuktu, who had been harshly persecuted under Ali, and Mansa Kura, the Islamized chief of the province of Bara, north of Lake Debo.