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Sonni Ali
Also called: Sunni Ali Ber
King who built the Songhai Empire (r. 1464–1492), taking Timbuktu and Djenné and mastering the middle Niger
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Songhai, centred on Gao on the middle Niger, replaced Mali as the great power of West Africa under Sonni Ali and reached its height under Askia Muhammad.
People who appear alongside
- Askia Muhammad1538
King of the Songhai Empire (r. 1493–1528) who organised an Islamic administration, made the pilgrimage to Mecca and patronised learning at Timbuktu
Themes this person appears in
- Turkic-Islamic Empires and Other Civilizations1000 – 1533
From the Ghaznavid raids on India to the Mughal Empire and Suleiman I — five centuries in which Turkic-led Islamic empires took western Asia and India, while Africa, Southeast Asia and the Americas raised civilisations of their own