Fakruddin Bâ
Fakruddin Bâ | |
|---|---|
| Born | c. 850 Unknown |
| Died | 921 |
| Occupation | Cleric |
| Known for | Founder of the Founagé Dominion of Heaven |
Fakruddin Bâ (Rahelian: فخر الدين يبن جمشید يبن صاكان الءفوناجي Fakhr al-Din ibn Jamshid ibn Sakan al-Funaji) was the founder of the Founagé Dominion of Heaven and first Asardaki of the Ndjarendie people. Bâ was born around 850 among the Bâ clan, a nomadic group of Ndjarendie pastoralists on the Boual ka Bifie. While little is known about his early life, the Tarikh al-Hadaba, a chronicle of the Boual ka Bifie written by Ndjarendie scholar Ibn Jafar, reports that he had been educated in Irfan from a young age.
In 998, motivated by what is described in the Tarikh as a prophetic dream, Bâ convened the ulama and chiefs of several Ndjarendie clans at the oasis town of Founagé in order to present his ideal of a coalition of clans in order to spread the Irfanic faith to the predominantly fetishist tribes of the inner Boual and Inner Bahia itself. His words were convincing, and with the help of Mourâhiline mercenaries who helped organise his armies launched many raids on the unitary villages of Bahia.
These conquests led to the formation of a significant state, which is often seen to have been the first Houregery and the catalyst of the Bahian Consolidation. Fakruddin Bâ died in 921, and was succeeded by his son Kasem Bâ. His rule was marked by a growth of Irfanic scholarship in the Boual ka Bifie, but also with the widespread destruction of fetishist cultural sites which were deemed idolatrous.