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Askia Muhammad I

r. 1493 – 1528; d. 1538

West Africa (Songhai Empire, Gao, present-day Mali)

Songhai ruler who took power in 1493, expanded the empire and made Timbuktu a centre of Islamic learning. He built his tomb at Gao in 1495 and was deposed by his son in 1528.

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The Tomb of Askia Muhammad I in Gao, Mali, a mud-brick pyramidal structure built in 1495
Credit: Taguelmoust, via World History Encyclopedia (also on Wikimedia Commons as File:Askia.jpg). License: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Sources

  1. UNESCO World Heritage Centre, "Tomb of Askia" (Primary source)
  2. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, "Western and Central Sudan, 1400–1600 A.D." (Scholarly)
  3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Muḥammad I Askia" (Reference)

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