Daali, also remembered as Dali or Dalil Bahr, is the great culture-hero and lawgiver of the Fur, the figure to whom the Keira state traces its ritual and legal foundations. From his seat at Turra in the northern Jebel Marra he is said to have established the sacred tree, the numang fadda; laid out the five provinces on which the sultanate's administration rested until the nineteenth century; and given the Kitab Daali, the code of customary law later understood as an attempt to reconcile Fur sultanic practice with a Maliki interpretation of Sharia. In the charter legend he is the half-brother of the last Tunjur king, Shau Dorshid, whom the nobility, weary of the tyrant, invite Daali to displace, so transferring the kingship from Tunjur to Keira. Historians treat him as a telescoped and partly legendary figure onto whom the whole architecture of the early state has been retrojected; the traditions disagree over his exact ancestry and over whether the institutions credited to him were the work of one reign or of many.