Editing Samori Ture (section)

{{Infobox royalty
| name         = Samori Ture
| image        = Almamy Samory Touré.jpg
| title = [[Almamy]], [[Faama]]
| succession   = [[Wassoulou Empire|Wassoulou Emperor]]
| reign        = 1878–1898
| predecessor  = position established
| successor    = position abolished
| birth_date   = {{c.|1830}}
| birth_place  = [[Beyla, Guinea|Manyambaladugu]]
| death_date   = {{death date and age|1900|06|02|1828}}
| death_place  = [[Gabon]]
| religion     = [[Sunni Islam]]
}}

'''Samori Ture''' ({{c.|1828}} – June 2, 1900), also known as '''Samori Toure''', '''Samory Touré''', or '''Almamy Samore Lafiya Toure''', was a [[Mandinka people|Malinke]] and a [[Soninke people|Soninke]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Person |first=Yves |date=1963 |title=Les ancêtres de Samori |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4390858 |journal=Cahiers d'Études Africaines |volume=4 |issue=13 |pages=125–156 |issn=0008-0055}}</ref> Muslim [[cleric]], military strategist,  and founder of the [[Wassoulou Empire]], an [[Islamic empire]] that was stretched across present-day north and eastern [[Guinea]], north-eastern [[Sierra Leone]], southern [[Mali]], northern [[Côte d'Ivoire]] and part of southern [[Burkina Faso]].

A deeply religious Muslim of the [[Maliki school]] of [[fiqh|religious jurisprudence]] of [[Sunni Islam]], he organized his empire and justified its expansion with Islamic principles. Ture resisted French colonial rule in [[West Africa]] from 1882 until his capture in 1898.

He was the great-grandfather of Guinea's first president, [[Ahmed Sékou Touré]].<ref>Webster, James & Boahen, Adu (1980), ''The Revolutionary Years; West Africa Since 1800'', p. 324.</ref>