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The princes managed to escape later. Watanga, on the other hand, was captured by the Jaka.

Usun Ka, according to Al-Sindi, and Shar'a, who was supporting his country's independence, expanded its territory. However, the Sindi did not become a great power until the reign of Madu, who united...

Arima and Athmarin, a tribe that Mali had controlled.

The Sindi continued to expand their territory until the days of Sun Ali, that

fierce and cruel giant, in whose era the two twin religions in this region, Islam

and paganism, clashed. His mother was a pagan, and his father was a Muslim. Sun Ali combined the idea of a sacred king with that of a religious leader, and managed to be both a sultan and a sorcerer at the same time.

During his reign, the country's territory expanded, and it fell under his control, including those who had been in power in the year...

and in the year...

He died on his way back from...

and was succeeded by his son Sun Yaru, who...

and the sultan rebelled against him. According to some accounts, this was the reason for the...

The most accurate is that Askia is the title of all the Sindi rulers who came after him. Askia Muhammad Turi, or Askia Al-Mahdi Muhammad Al-Sikier, tried to

legitimize his usurpation of power, so he sought to

obtain recognition from the Caliph as sultan, and he began to give gifts to scholars and the pious, and to draw closer to them.

In Mecca, the Askia gave generously, built one of the mosques, and spent his time among the scholars.

"Mani Shi'i, son of the Sultan's deputy," it says in Tarikh Al-Fattash, p.

From this, it is understood that he was a subject of the Mali Empire. Huda and Duplacus say that...

In Tarikh Al-Fattash, French edition, p. 12, the meaning of the word in the Songhai language is "place of the chief."

The chief.

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