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Usman dan Fodio and the Sokoto Caliphate

1754 – 1817

West Africa (northern Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon)

A Fulani Islamic scholar and reformer from Gobir who led a jihad from 1804 against Hausa rulers, founding the Sokoto Caliphate. He wrote widely in Arabic and Fula.

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19th-century Qur'an manuscript in an embossed leather wrap, probably northern Nigeria, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2019). License: CC0 (Met Open Access, public domain).

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  1. Maria L. Quintana, BlackPast.org, "Usman dan Fodio (1754-1817)" (Reference)
  2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Usman dan Fodio summary" (Reference)
  3. John Edward Philips, "Causes of the Jihad of Usman Ɗan Fodio: a historiographical review", Journal for Islamic Studies 36 (2017) (Scholarly)

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