Question
Al-Maghīlī “replied” to a series of seven “questions” posed by this ruler about the intersection of Islam and the state. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this ruler who founded a namesake West African dynasty after usurping the son of Sonni ‘Alī in 1493.
ANSWER: Askia Muḥammad [or Askia Muhammad I; or Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr Ture; prompt on Muḥammad; prompt on Askia dynasty]
[10e] Askia Muḥammad restored the prevalence of the Sankoré Madrasah in this city, where Mansa Mūsā earlier commissioned al-Sāḥili to design the Djinguereber Mosque.
ANSWER: Timbuktu [or Tombouctou]
[10h] Scholarship on the Songhai Empire and the reign of Askia Muḥammad is grounded in this historical account produced by the Kāti family, which forms the “Timbuktu Chronicles” with a “History of the Sudan” written by al-Sa‘dī.
ANSWER: Ta’rīkh al-fattāsh
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago A | Vanderbilt A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Claremont A | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell B | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Duke A | Illinois A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech A | Chicago C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Georgia Tech B | Brown A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Harvard A | Houston A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland A | Penn A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan A | Florida B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Virginia A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Ohio State A | WUSTL B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Penn State A | MIT A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | Minnesota A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers B | McGill A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford A | NYU A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Texas A | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto A | Columbia B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| UC Berkeley A | Iowa State A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Purdue A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yale A | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale B | Indiana A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |