Empire du Macina — French Wikipedia

French Wikipedia article on the Empire of Macina (the Diina); it states that its founder Sékou Amadou was a member of the Qadiriyya Sufi confraternity, that the empire was governed by a rigorous application of Maliki Sharia, and narrates its founding at the battle of Noukouma in 1818, the founding of Hamdallaye and its extent from Timbuktu to Mopti.

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