Kuri II Kura
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Kuri II Kura (Kure Kura bin ʿAbdallāh[1]) was the mai of the Kanem–Bornu Empire in 1327–1328.[1]
Life
Kuri Kura was the son of Abdullah II and an unknown mother.[2] He succeeded his brother Kuri I Gana as mai[2] in 1327,[1] after Kuri Gana's death in battle against the Sao.[3][4] The Sao lived south of Lake Chad[4] and had been greatly reduced, but not wiped out or completely subjugated, under earlier mais. The Sao had risen up against the empire in the time of Selema, also Kuri Kura's brother, and also killed by the Sao.[3] After a brief reign, Kuri Kura became the third brother in a row to be defeated and killed in battle by the Sao,[3][4] apparently killed in the same place as Kuri Gana.[3] He was succeeded as mai by another brother, Muhammad I.[2]