Editing Askia Muhammad I (section)

==Name and origins==
The ''Tarikh al-Sudan'' gives Askia Muhammad's name as Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr al-Turi or al-Sillanki.{{sfn|Hunwick|1999|p=102}} The ''Tarikh al-Fattash'' gives his name as Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr.{{sfn|Bühnen|2005|p=85}} Al-Turi and al-Sillanki have been interpreted as the [[Soninke people|Soninke]] clan names Ture and Sila by many historians. However, Stephan Bühnen has argued that they should be interpreted as ''[[Nisba (onomastics)|nisba]]''s referring to ancestry from [[Futa Toro]] or Silla in the [[Senegal River|Senegal]] valley, and favors the possibility that his ancestors originally came from Futa Toro.{{sfn|Bühnen|2005}}

After going on the ''[[hajj]]'' in 1497–1498, he also became known as Askia al-Hajj Muhammad.{{sfn|Bühnen|2005|p=83}} In modern Songhai, he is known as Mamar Kassey.{{sfn|Johnson|Hale|Belcher|1997|p=126}} Mamar is a form of the name Muhammad, and Kassey is a [[matronymic]].

[[File:Askia.jpg|thumb|The [[Tomb of Askia]] in Mali, claimed to be Askia Muhammad's tomb.]]
The theory that Askia Muhammad's family originated in Futa Toro is controversial and has been generally rejected by the [[Songhai people]] themselves, especially by Muhammad's modern descendants who see in it a challenge to their ethnicity. His exact surname has not been definitively determined and no Toucouleur or Soninke oral source claim him as one of their own. The Tarikh al-Fattash uses the title 'maiga' for him, which is only used for the patrilineal kin of the [[Sunni dynasty]].{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} 

The term 'sonhinkey,' which suggests a Soninke ethnic origin for Askia, is also the name of a clan of Songhai magicians responsible for the pre-Islamic cult and forming a younger branch of the royal Sunni clan without rights to the throne. Songhai oral traditions claim the father of Askia Mohammed originated from this clan. [[Omar Komajago]], Askia's brother, is never described as a Touré or a Sylla. 

The term at-Turi, which designates the geographical origin of a person, could be the name of Askia's father's village. There is a Songhai village call Tureh in [[Niger]] in the [[Tillabéri Region]] in the [[Tera Department]]. 

Although Askia Mohamed is generally seen as the son of princess Kassey, sister of [[Sunni Ali Ber]], it is impossible that he himself came from Fouta Toro because the post of general was only given to a member of the royal family and ethnic Songhai patrilineally. The theory that he is an ethnic Songhai through both his father and mother is being studied at the Ahmed Baba center in [[Timbuktu]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Boubou Hama|title=L'Histoire traditionnelle d'un peuple, les Zarma-Songhay|publisher=Présence africaine| year=1967|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bac5AQAAIAAJ|language=fr}}</ref>