Dunama VII
| Dunama VII | |
|---|---|
| Mai of the Kanem–Bornu Empire | |
| Reign | 1699–1726 |
| Predecessor | Idris IV |
| Successor | Hamdan |
| Issue | Hamdan |
| Dynasty | Sayfawa dynasty |
| Father | Ali III |
Dunama VII[a] (Dunama bin ʿAlī[2]) was the mai of the Kanem–Bornu Empire in 1699–1726.[2]
Life
[edit]Dunama VII was the brother of Idris IV,[3] who he succeeded as mai in 1699.[2] Dunama and Idris were sons of mai Ali III.[3] According to the German explorer Heinrich Barth, who visited Bornu in the mid-19th century, the only noteworthy event of Dunama's long reign was a seven-year famine.[4]
Dunama was succeeded by his son Hamdan[3] in 1726.[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 VI.[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 Cohen, Ronald (1966). "The Bornu King Lists". Boston University Papers on Africa: Volume II: African History. Boston University Press. p. 82.
- ^ Barth, Heinrich (1857). Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: Being a Journal of an Expedition Undertaken... 1849-1855. Longmans. p. 660.
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