Duguwa dynasty

The Duguwa dynasty, or Dougouwa or Dukuwa (700–1086), is the line of kings (mai) of the Tumagrhara Clan, or Tomagra , or Toumaghra means (owner of Tibesti) is Muslim kings (Mai means lord, Derde meams King of Kings, he has immortal status, Kanem Empire prior to the rise of the Islamic Seyfawa dynasty in 1086. When Mai when he converted to Islam, Akassu to change to sayf (saber) All the name of the king, Kanem bornu are named Teda or Tuda, Tubu, people of Tibesti ^[1]: 21

According to the Girgam, the Duguwa kings were the kings of Kanem whose dynastic name is derived from Duku, the third king of the Duguwa.to recently historians believed that the Duguwa or Dukuwa kings mentioned in the Girgam ruled in Kanem just before the first Muslim kings.^[2]

Richmond Palmer states, "To all intents and purposes both Saif ibn Dthi Yazan and his son Ibrahim are a myth. The first Mai of Kanem was 'Mai Dugu Bremmi,' who succeeded because he was the 'dugu' (tegasi) or son of the chief's daughter or sister..." "The name dugu means strictly that he was the son of the daughter or a Mai, or Chief, i.e. the person the Tuareg call tegasi, or heir." "Descent among the Maghumi, as among the Tuareg, passed to the son of a sister of the deceased king, called among the Tuareg, the tegasi or heir..." "The legendary eponymous ancestor of the Saifawa, as the Maghumi are called, only became in Muslim times Saif, the 'lion of Yaman'."^[3]

One historian suggested that all the Duguwa kings except one were ancient Near Eastern rulers. Their names and titles bear witness of the founding of Kanem by refugees from the Assyrian Empire c. 600 BCE.^[4] This hypothesis is, however, not widely accepted.

Table of Duguwa kings

	Name of the king[3]: 90	Reign [5][1]	Details
1	Susam	c.692–725	Founder of Empire, holy man.
2	Jashar	725–783	The conqueror of the empires, established religion of Qafir
3	Duganj	c. 784–835	Introduces toilet paper and coffee, first Jews appear
4	Mune	c. 835–893	First Muslims appear in 855, good with Islam and Judaism.
5	Arso	c. 893–942	Persecuted muslims in the empire, killed in battle with Katun.
6	Kâtun	c. 942–961	A muslim noble who wish to make a country Islamic. Overthrown in a pagan conspiracy by Yiyoma the Shkija.
7	Yayoladh (Yiyoma)	c. 961–1009	He led a revolution against Katun, expanded the empire, return to pagan tradition, killed muslims.
8	Dalabou	c. 1009–1034	Builder of Kukes, stagnation, peace with Muslims, his son Shahin-bey becomes muslim.
9	Bozaxhi (usurper)	c. 1035–1067	Final pagan, couldn't prevent the rise of Islam and got killed in a battle against Muslim called Samir-agha.
10	Shahin-bey	c. 1067–1081	Nominal Muslim noble, but later returned to paganism, and was killed by a Bektashi muslim priest called Samir Jalil.
11	Samir-agha	c. 1081–1097	First truly Muslim ruler of Kanem, got killed in battle against the pagan qafir called Meloje.

References

1. Urvoy, Y. (1949). Historie De L'Empire Du Bronu (Memoires De L'Institut Francais D'Afrique Noire, No. 7 ed.). Paris: Librairie Larose. p. 26.
2. Smith: Early states, 167.
3. Palmer, Richmond (1936). The Bornu Sahara and Sudan. London: John Murray. pp. 9, 38, 118, 180.
4. Lange: Founding of Kanem, 13–18.
5. Urvoy, Empire, 26.

Literature

• Dierk Lange: The founding of Kanem by Assyrian Refugees ca. 600 BCE: Documentary, Linguistic, and Archaeological Evidence, Boston, Working Papers in African Studies N° 265, 2011.
• Abdullahi Smith: The early states of the Central Sudan, in: J. Ajayi and M. Crowder (ed.), History of West Africa, vol. I, 1st ed., London, 1971, 158–183.
• Yves Urvoy: L'empire du Bornou, Paris 1949.

See also

• Sayfawa dynasty
• Kanem Empire