War Jabi

War-Dyabe ibn Rabis (Arabic: وار ذياب بن ربيس) or War Jabi (Arabic: وار جابي), also known as: War Jaabi or War-Dyabe or War-Ndyay, was the king of Tekrur. He converted to Islam around 1030 and his subjects did the same to imitate him. Following attacks on the Muslims of Tekrour by animists who were afraid of the growing influence of Islam in the kingdom, he called on his Almoravid allies who helped him to take power. This conflict forced the ancestors of today's Serer people to flee south to land near the Saloum Delta.

Under his reign, he expanded the kingdom by conquering other territories. The rapprochement with the Almoravids benefited the kingdom economically and created stronger political ties between the Muslim states of North Africa and Tekrour. Later, during a period of domestic instability in the Ghana Empire, Tekrur ended up conquering the empire with the help of the Almoravids by taking its capital Koumbi Saleh.

He died in 433 Hijri (1040 or 1041 Gregorian), succeeded by his son Labi.

See also

Sources
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Notes

    Serer history

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