Askia Muhammad I · Politics
The <em>Replies</em> of the jurist al-Maghili to the questions Askia put to him - on who is a true Muslim, when war against a nominally Muslim ruler is lawful, and what a just sovereign owes his people - the closest surviving window into the political-religious thought of Askia’s court.
You learned that the Replies of al-Maghili preserve Askia’s own recorded questions and a jurist’s answers on legitimate rule, jihad against nominal Muslims, and who counts as a true believer - including al-Maghili’s hard line that mixing Islam with paganism can amount to unbelief, which retroactively…
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