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Even before the fall of the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]] after the Shia and Sunni ideological split in Islam, the foundations of the Khandharan Caliphate were laid as it became the theological and cultural capital of the Sunni aspects of the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]]. When the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]] did eventually fall the Khandharan Caliphate immediately picked up the pieces of the Empire and maintained them in the northeast. It did lose some provinces in the far north and in the interior some to the [[Myanga Ayil Khanate]] and others to what would become the Queendom of Santasi. Santasi was strong in rural areas that had not been under the direct control of the [[Oduniyyad Caliphate]] and had maintained a strong sense it's of its native culture and heritage. Free of the restrictions of Islam, the Santasi re-normalized {{wp|Pre-colonial_history_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo#Religion_and_Spirituality|shamanism}} and {{wp|Pre-colonial_history_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo#Cannibalism|ritual cannabalism}}. Therefore, Santasi eventually became an ethnic afro-state where anyone who opposed the Khandharan Caliphate, and Islam in general, could go to practice their traditional animist religion or also to join the army in opposition to the Khandharan Caliphate.