Kashim Bir (Kashim Biri bin Dunama
), also called Bir and Othman,
was ''
mai'' of the
Kanem–Bornu Empire
The Kanem–Bornu Empire was an empire based around Lake Chad that once ruled areas which are now part of Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Libya, Algeria, Sudan, and Chad. The empire was sustained by the prosperous trans-Saharan trade and was one of the ...
at some point between 1259 and 1290,
in a period of succession conflict between the sons of
Dunama II Dabbalemi.
Kashim Bir was a son of Dunama II and his consort Zainab.
Kashim Bir succeeded his brother
Kade I as ''mai'', and was himself succeeded by either
Jalil or
Bir II Ibrahim.
Bosworth (1996) considers Kashim Bir and Bir II Ibrahim to be the same figure
whereas Cohen (1966)
and Stewart (1989)
separate the two.
Kashim Bir's consort was named Kagudi. They had at least one son together,
Ibrahim I Nikale, who would later claim the Kanem–Bornu throne.
References
Rulers of the Kanem Empire
13th-century monarchs in Africa
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