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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]
In Sunni Islam, Ali is recognized as a close companion, a foremost authority on the Quran and Islamic law, and the fountainhead of wisdom in Sunni spirituality. When Muhammad died in 632 CE , Ali had his own claims to leadership, perhaps in reference to Muhammad's announcement at the Ghadir Khumm , but he eventually accepted the temporal rule ...
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.
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 ...
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]
Ali is also viewed as the model par excellence for Islamic chivalry . [443] [444] [445] Historical accounts about Ali are often tendentious. [6] For instance, in person, Ali is described in some Sunni sources as bald, heavy-built, short-legged, with broad shoulders, hairy body, long white beard, and affected by eye inflammation. [6]
Ali played a pivotal role during the formative years of Islam and is recognized as the fourth Rashidun caliph (r. 656–661) in Sunni Islam and the first imam in Shia Islam. Perhaps the most controversial such verse is 5:55, also known as the verse of walaya, which gave Ali the same spiritual authority as Muhammad, according to the Shia.