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Mai
(253 words)
, the official title of the Sayfuwa rulers of Kanem [
q.v.], later Bornū [
q.v.], an African kingdom situated in the area of Lake Chad. Arab geographers (al-Yaʿḳūbī, al-Muhallabī) depicted the ruler of pre-Islamic Kanem as a divine king. Although the rise to power of an Islamic line of rulers in the second half of the 11th century resulted in a number of radical changes in the political structure, some basic elements of divine kingship continued to shape the royal institution during the period of the Sayfuwa. …
