page_title: List of caliphs
section_title: Bornu and Songhai Empires
hierarchical_section_title: List of caliphs / Non-ecumenical caliphates / Bornu and Songhai Empires
caption_attribution_description: Map of the w:Songhai Empire
context_page_description: This is a list of people who have held the title of Caliph, the supreme religious and political leader of an Islamic state known as the Caliphate, and the title for the ruler of the Islamic Ummah, as the political successors to Muhammad. All years are according to the Common Era.
context_section_description: Several rulers of West Africa adopted the title of Caliph. Mai Ali Ghaji ibn Dunama was the first ruler of Bornu Empire to assume the title. Askia Mohammad I of Songhai Empire also assumed the title around the same time.
caption: Songhai Empire at its greatest extent (c. 1500)
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