Dunama VI Muhammad
| Dunama VI Muhammad | |
|---|---|
| Mai of the Kanem–Bornu Empire | |
| Reign | 1546–1563 |
| Predecessor | Ali II Zainami |
| Successor | Abdullah IV |
| Issue | Abdullah IV |
| Dynasty | Sayfawa dynasty |
| Father | Muhammad VI Aminami |
| Mother | Fanna |
Dunama VI Muhammad[a] (Dunama Muḥammad bin Muḥammad[2]), also called Dunama Ghamarami,[3] was the mai of the Kanem–Bornu Empire in 1546–1563.[2]
Life
[edit]Dunama Muhammad was the son of Muhammad VI Aminami and Fanna.[4] He succeeded his uncle Ali II Zainami[4] as mai in 1546.[2] Dunama is said to have fortified the Kanem–Bornu capital of Ngazargamu, and there was apparently a famine in his reign.[3] Dunama's reign saw renewed conflict with the Bilala people, who occupied the empire's former heartland in Kanem but had been subjugated by his predecessors. Dunama defeated the leader of the Bilala in a battle, and then killed the Bilala heir apparent in another battle, once more reducing them to vassals.[3]
Dunama was succeeded as mai by his son Abdullah IV[4] in 1563.[2]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Some chronologies of Kanem–Bornu rulers omit the 14th-century Dunama III, lowering the regnal numbers of later rulers of this name. This ruler is then considered Dunama V.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Stewart, John (1989). African States and Rulers: An Encyclopedia of Native, Colonial and Independent States and Rulers Past and Present. McFarland & Company. pp. 33–34, 146.
- ^ a b c d Bosworth, Clifford Edmund (2012) [1996]. The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual. Edinburgh University Press. p. 127. ISBN 0-7486-2137-7.
- ^ a b c Barth, Heinrich (1857). Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: Being a Journal of an Expedition Undertaken... 1849-1855. Longmans. p. 649.
- ^ a b c Cohen, Ronald (1966). "The Bornu King Lists". Boston University Papers on Africa: Volume II: African History. Boston University Press. p. 81.
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