War Jabi

War Jabi or War Jaabi was the king of Tekrur in the 1030s. He converted to Islam and forced his subjects into Islam. Tekrur as a result of his reign expanded into the South as his State sanctioned Sharia.^[1][2]

Sources

• Barry, Boubacar. Senegambia and the Atlantic slave trade, (Cambridge: University Press, 1998) p. 6
• Clark, Andrew F. and Lucie Colvin Phillips. Historical Dictionary of Senegal: Second Edition, (Metuchen, New Jersey: Scrarecrow Press, 1994) p. 265

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