Islam in Africa, the Glossary
Islam in Africa is the continent's second most widely professed faith behind Christianity.[1]
Table of Contents
212 relations: Abbasid Caliphate, Abbasid dynasty, Abdallah ibn Yasin, Abu-Abdullah Adelabu, Adal Sultanate, Africa, African studies, Ajuran Sultanate, Alawi dynasty, Algeria, Almohad Caliphate, Almoravid dynasty, Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Arabian Peninsula, Armah, Asia, Banaadir, Barbaria (region), BBC World Service, Benue River, Berbers, Caliphate, Cameroon, Chad, Christianity, Common Era, Companions of the Prophet, Congo Basin, Congressional Research Service, Credit, Culture of Africa, Demographics of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Dendi (province), Dervish movement (Somali), Dhulbahante Garadate, Djibouti, Egypt, Emirate of Harar, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Empire, Fiqh, Funj Sultanate, Gadabuursi Ughazate, Guinea-Bissau, Hanafi school, Harla Kingdom, Hijrah, Hiraab Imamate, Horn of Africa, ... Expand index (162 more) »
Abbasid Caliphate
The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (translit) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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Abbasid dynasty
The Abbasid dynasty or Abbasids (Banu al-ʿAbbās) were an Arab dynasty that ruled the Abbasid Caliphate between 750 and 1258.
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Abdallah ibn Yasin
Abdallah ibn Yasin (born in "Tamanart", died 7 July 1059 C.E. in "Krifla" near Rommani, present-day Morocco) was a theologian, spiritual leader and the founder of the Almoravid movement.
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Abu-Abdullah Adelabu
Abdul-Fattah Abu-Abdullah Taiye Ejire Adelabu (عبد الفتّاح أبو عبد الله تَائيي أيجيري أديلابو) or simply Sheikh Adelabu (الشيخ أديلابو), also known as Al-Afriqi (الإفريقي) or Shaykh Al-Afriqi (الشيخ الإفريقي) is a Nigeria-born British Muslim scholar, writer, academic, publisher and cleric from Osogbo, capital city of Osun State, Nigeria.
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Adal Sultanate
The Adal Sultanate also known as the Adal Empire, or Bar Saʿad dīn (alt. spelling Adel Sultanate, Adal Sultanate) was a medieval Sunni Muslim Empire which was located in the Horn of Africa.
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Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
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African studies
African studies is the study of Africa, especially the continent's cultures and societies (as opposed to its geology, geography, zoology, etc.). The field includes the study of Africa's history (pre-colonial, colonial, post-colonial), demography (ethnic groups), culture, politics, economy, languages, and religion (Islam, Christianity, traditional religions).
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Ajuran Sultanate
The Ajuran Sultanate (Saldanadda Ajuuraan, سلطنة الأجورانية), natively referred to as Ajuuraan, and often simply Ajuran, was a medieval Muslim Empire in the Horn of Africa.
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Alawi dynasty
The Alawi dynasty (translit) – also rendered in English as Alaouite, Alawid, or Alawite – is the current Moroccan royal family and reigning dynasty.
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Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
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Almohad Caliphate
The Almohad Caliphate (خِلَافَةُ ٱلْمُوَحِّدِينَ or دَوْلَةُ ٱلْمُوَحِّدِينَ or ٱلدَّوْلَةُ ٱلْمُوَحِّدِيَّةُ from unity of God) or Almohad Empire was a North African Berber Muslim empire founded in the 12th century.
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Almoravid dynasty
The Almoravid dynasty (lit) was a Berber Muslim dynasty centered in the territory of present-day Morocco.
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Arab states of the Persian Gulf
The Arab states of the Persian Gulf or the Arab Gulf states (دول الخليج العربي) refers to a group of Arab states bordering the Persian Gulf.
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Arabian Peninsula
The Arabian Peninsula (شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَة الْعَرَبِيَّة,, "Arabian Peninsula" or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب,, "Island of the Arabs"), or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate.
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Armah
Armah (late 6th/early 7th century AD) was a king of the Aksum.
Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.
Banaadir
Banaadir (Banaadir, بنادر, Benadir) is an administrative region (gobol) in southeastern Somalia.
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Barbaria (region)
Barbaria was the name used by the ancient Greeks for coastal northeast Africa.
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BBC World Service
The BBC World Service is an international broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC.
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Benue River
Benue River (la Bénoué), previously known as the Chadda River or Tchadda, is the major tributary of the Niger River.
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Berbers
Berbers, or the Berber peoples, also called by their endonym Amazigh or Imazighen, are a diverse grouping of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Arab migrations to the Maghreb.
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Caliphate
A caliphate or khilāfah (خِلَافَةْ) is a monarchical form of government (initially elective, later absolute) that originated in the 7th century Arabia, whose political identity is based on a claim of succession to the Islamic State of Muhammad and the identification of a monarch called caliph (خَلِيفَةْ) as his heir and successor.
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Cameroon
Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa.
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Chad
Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of North and Central Africa.
Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Common Era
Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.
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Companions of the Prophet
The Companions of the Prophet (lit) were the disciples and followers of Muhammad who saw or met him during his lifetime, while being a Muslim and were physically in his presence.
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Congo Basin
The Congo Basin (Bassin du Congo) is the sedimentary basin of the Congo River.
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Congressional Research Service
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is a public policy research institute of the United States Congress.
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Credit
Credit (from Latin verb credit, meaning "one believes") is the trust which allows one party to provide money or resources to another party wherein the second party does not reimburse the first party immediately (thereby generating a debt), but promises either to repay or return those resources (or other materials of equal value) at a later date.
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Culture of Africa
The Culture of Africa is varied and manifold, consisting of a mixture of countries with various tribes depicting their unique characteristic and trait from the continent of Africa.
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Demographics of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha are British Overseas Territories in the south Atlantic Ocean.
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Dendi (province)
The Dendi (or Dandi, Dendiganda) was a former province of the Songhai Empire.
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Dervish movement (Somali)
The Dervish Movement (Dhaqdhaqaaqa Daraawiish) was an armed resistance movement between 1899 and 1920, which was led by the Salihiyya Sufi Muslim poet and militant leader Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, also known as Sayyid Mohamed, who called for independence from the British and Italian colonisers and for the defeat of Ethiopian forces.
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Dhulbahante Garadate
The Dhulbahante Garadship begun in the 16th century, as a successor to the Sultanate of Adal with Garad Shishore assuming the royal title in approximately 1530.
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Djibouti
Djibouti, officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country in the Horn of Africa, bordered by Somalia to the south, Ethiopia to the southwest, Eritrea in the north, and the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to the east.
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Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
Emirate of Harar
The Emirate of Harar was a Muslim kingdom founded in 1647 when the Harari people refused to accept Imām ʿUmardīn Ādan as their ruler and broke away from the Imamate of Aussa to form their own state under `Ali ibn Da`ud.
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Eritrea
Eritrea (or; Ertra), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara.
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Ethiopia
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.
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Ethiopian Empire
The Ethiopian Empire, also formerly known by the exonym Abyssinia, or simply known as Ethiopia, was a sovereign state that historically encompasses the geographical area of present-day Ethiopia and Eritrea from the establishment of the Solomonic dynasty by Yekuno Amlak approximately in 1270 until the 1974 coup d'etat by the Derg, which dethroned Emperor Haile Selassie.
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Fiqh
Fiqh (فقه) is Islamic jurisprudence.
Funj Sultanate
The Funj Sultanate, also known as Funjistan, Sultanate of Sennar (after its capital Sennar) or Blue Sultanate (due to the traditional Sudanese convention of referring to black people as blue), was a monarchy in what is now Sudan, northwestern Eritrea and western Ethiopia.
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Gadabuursi Ughazate
The Gadabuursi Ughazate or Ugasate (Ugaasyada ama Boqortooyada Gadabuursi, የገዳቡርሲ አለቆች) evolved from and was a successor kingdom to the Adal Sultanate and Sultanate of Harar.
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Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau (Guiné-Bissau; script; Mandinka: ߖߌ߬ߣߍ߫ ߓߌߛߊߥߏ߫ Gine-Bisawo), officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (República da Guiné-Bissau), is a country in West Africa that covers with an estimated population of 2,026,778.
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Hanafi school
The Hanafi school or Hanafism (translit) is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam.
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Harla Kingdom
Harla Kingdom was a 6th century Harla state centered around what is present day eastern Ethiopia.
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Hijrah
The Hijrah (hijra, originally 'a severing of ties of kinship or association'), also Hegira (from Medieval Latin), was the journey the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his followers took from Mecca to Medina.
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Hiraab Imamate
The Hiraab Imamate (Saldanadda Hiraab), also known as the Yacquubi Dynasty, was a Somali kingdom that ruled parts of the Horn of Africa during the 16th century till the 19th century until it was incorporated into Italian Somaliland.
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Horn of Africa
The Horn of Africa (HoA), also known as the Somali Peninsula, is a large peninsula and geopolitical region in East Africa.
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Ibadi Islam
The Ibadi movement or Ibadism (al-ʾIbāḍiyya) is a branch inside Islam, which many believe is descended from the Kharijites.
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Ibn Battuta
Abū Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abd Allāh Al-Lawātī (24 February 13041368/1369), commonly known as Ibn Battuta, was a Maghrebi traveller, explorer and scholar.
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Idrisid dynasty
The Idrisid dynasty or Idrisids (الأدارسة) were an Arab Muslim dynasty from 788 to 974, ruling most of present-day Morocco and parts of present-day western Algeria.
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Imamate of Futa Jallon
The Imamate of Futa Jallon or Jalon (إمامة فوتة جالون; Fuuta Jaloo or Fuuta Jalon), sometimes referred to as the Emirate of Timbo, was a West African Islamic State based in the Fouta Djallon highlands of modern Guinea.
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Imamate of Futa Toro
The Imamate of Futa Toro was a West African theocratic monarchy of the Fula-speaking people (Fulɓe and Toucouleurs) in the middle valley of the Senegal River, in the region known as Futa Toro.
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Isaaq Sultanate
The Isaaq Sultanate (Saldanadda Isaaq, Wadaad:, السلطنة الإسحاقية) was a Muslim sultanate that ruled parts of the Horn of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
Islam in Algeria
Islam is the majority and state religion in Algeria.
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Islam in Angola
Angola is a predominantly Christian country with Islam being a minority religion.
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Islam in Burkina Faso
Islam in Burkina Faso (Upper Volta) has a long and varied history.
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Islam in Burundi
Islam is a minority religion in Burundi where approximately 90 percent of the national population are followers of Christianity.
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Islam in Cameroon
Cameroon is a Christian majority nation, with Islam being a minority faith practiced by around 30.6% of the total population as of 2022.
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Islam in Cape Verde
Islam in Cape Verde is a minority religion with a small but growing community.
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Islam in Chad
The earliest presence of Islam in Chad can be traced back to Uqba ibn Nafi, whose descendants can be found settled in the Lake Chad region to this day.
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Islam in Djibouti
Islam in Djibouti has a long history, first appearing in the Horn of Africa during the lifetime of Muhammad.
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Islam in Egypt
Islam is the dominant religion in Egypt, with approximately 90% of Egyptians identifying as Muslims.
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Islam in Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea is a Christian majority country, with Islam being a minority religion.
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Islam in Eswatini
Eswatini is a Christian majority country, with adherents of Islam being a minority.
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Islam in Ethiopia
Islam is the second largest religion in Ethiopia behind Christianity, with 31.1 to 35 percent of the total population of around 120 million people professing the religion as of 2024.
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Islam in Gabon
Gabon is a Christian majority nation, with Islam being a minority faith.
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Islam in Ghana
Islam was the first Abrahamic monotheistic religion to arrive in Ghana.
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Islam in Guinea
Islam is the main religion in Guinea, followed by an estimated 90% of the population as of 2022.
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Islam in Guinea-Bissau
Islam in Guinea-Bissau is the predominant religion of the country.
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Islam in Ivory Coast
Islam was the first Abrahamic monotheistic religion to arrive in Ivory Coast.
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Islam in Kenya
Kenya has a Christian majority, with Islam being the second largest faith representing 11% of the Kenyan population, or approximately 5.2 million people as of the 2019 census.
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Islam in Lesotho
Lesotho is a predominantly Christian country, with Islam being a minority religion.
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Islam in Liberia
Islam in Liberia is practiced by an estimated 12.2% of the population.
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Islam in Libya
Islam is the dominant religion in Libya, with 97% of Libyans following Sunni Islam.
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Islam in Madagascar
Islam in Madagascar is a minority religion, with most Malagasy people adhering to Christianity.
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Islam in Malawi
Islam is the second largest religion in Malawi behind Christianity.
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Islam in Mali
Islam is very important to traditional Malian culture.
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Islam in Mauritania
Virtually all Mauritanians are Sunni Muslims.
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Islam in Mauritius
Islam in Mauritius is the nation's third largest religion behind Hinduism and Christianity.
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Islam in Mayotte
Islam is the faith of the majority of the residents of the island of Mayotte with 97% as Muslims and 3% Christians.
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Islam in Morocco
Islam is the largest religion in Morocco, with more than 99% of the population adhering to it.
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Islam in Mozambique
Mozambique is a Christian majority country, with Islam being a minority faith practiced by around 17.5% of the population as of 2020.
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Islam in Namibia
Namibia is a predominantly Christian country and is home to a small Muslim community.
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Islam in Niger
Islam in Niger accounts for the vast majority of the nation's religious adherents.
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Islam in Nigeria
Islam is one of the two largest religions in Nigeria.
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Islam in Réunion
Islam is the religion of about 3% of the people of Réunion.
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Islam in Rwanda
Islam is a minority religion in Rwanda, practiced by 2% of the total population according to the 2022 census.
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Islam in São Tomé and Príncipe
Islam Ahmadiyya is a fast growing religion in São Tomé and Príncipe.
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Islam in Senegal
Islam is the predominant religion in Senegal.
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Islam in Seychelles
Islam in the Indian Ocean was established by Muslim sea merchants well before the European discovery of Seychelles.
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Islam in Sierra Leone
Islam is the largest and majority religion in Sierra Leone.
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Islam in Somalia
Practitioners of Islam first entered Somalia in the northwestern city of Zeila during prophet Muhammad's lifetime whereupon they built the Masjid al-Qiblatayn; as such, Islam has been a part of Somali society since the 7th century.
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Islam in South Africa
South Africa is a Christian majority nation with Islam being a minority religion, practised by roughly 1.6% of the total population.
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Islam in South Asia
Islam is the second-largest religion in South Asia, with more than 650 million Muslims living there, forming about one-third of the region's population.
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Islam in South Sudan
South Sudan is a Christian majority country, with Islam being a minority faith practiced by around 6.2% of the total population as of 2020.
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Islam in Sudan
Islam is the most common religion in Sudan and Muslims have dominated national government institutions since independence in 1956.
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Islam in Tanzania
Tanzania is a Christian majority nation, with Islam being the largest minority faith in the country.
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Islam in the Central African Republic
Islam accounts for approximately 8.9% (750,000 people) of the population of the Central African Republic, making it the second largest organized religion in the country after Christianity (90%).
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Islam in the Comoros
Islam is the largest religion in the Comoros.
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Islam in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Islam is a minority religion within the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the large majority of the population is affiliated with various Christian denominations and sects.
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Islam in the Gambia
Islam is the major religion in the Gambia, representing 97% of the 2 million population, with the first Muslim communities in the country arriving in 11th century.
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Islam in the Republic of the Congo
Republic of the Congo is a predominantly Christian country, with Islam being a minority religion.
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Islam in Togo
Islam in Togo represents 18% to over a third (33%) of the total population.
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Islam in Tunisia
Islam is the official state religion in Tunisia.
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Islam in Uganda
Uganda is an overwhelmingly Christian majority country, with Islam being the second most widely professed faith.
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Islam in Zambia
Zambia is officially a Christian country, with adherents of Islam being at 2.7% minority in the country.
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Islam in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is a Christian majority country, with adherents of Islam being a small minority.
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Islamic banking and finance
Islamic banking, Islamic finance (مصرفية إسلامية masrifiyya 'islamia), or Sharia-compliant finance is banking or financing activity that complies with Sharia (Islamic law) and its practical application through the development of Islamic economics.
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Jihad of Usman dan Fodio
The Jihad of Usman dan Fodio was a religio-military conflict in present-day Nigeria and Cameroon.
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Kanem–Bornu Empire
The Kanem–Bornu Empire existed in areas which are now part of Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Libya and Chad.
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Kilwa Sultanate
The Kilwa Sultanate was a sultanate, centered at Kilwa (an island off modern-day, Kilwa District in Lindi Region of Tanzania), whose authority, at its height, stretched over the entire length of the Swahili Coast.
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Kingdom of Aksum
The Kingdom of Aksum (ʾÄksum; 𐩱𐩫𐩪𐩣,; Axōmítēs) also known as the Kingdom of Axum, or the Aksumite Empire, was a kingdom in East Africa and South Arabia from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages.
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Kingdom of Gomma
The Kingdom of Gomma was a kingdom in the Gibe region of Ethiopia that emerged in the 18th century.
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Kingdom of Gumma
The Kingdom of Gumma was a kingdom in the Gibe region of Ethiopia that emerged in the 18th century.
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Kingdom of Jimma
The Kingdom of Jimma (Mootummaa Jimmaa) was an Oromo Muslim kingdom in the Gibe region of Ethiopia that emerged in the 18th century.
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Kingdom of Kano
The Kingdom of Kano was a Hausa kingdom in the north of what is now Nigeria that was established before 1000 AD, and lasted until the proclamation of the Sultanate of Kano by King Ali Yaji Dan Tsamiya in 1349.
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Kingdom of Kush
The Kingdom of Kush (Egyptian: 𓎡𓄿𓈙𓈉 kꜣš, Assyrian: Kûsi, in LXX Χους or Αἰθιοπία; ⲉϭⲱϣ Ecōš; כּוּשׁ Kūš), also known as the Kushite Empire, or simply Kush, was an ancient kingdom in Nubia, centered along the Nile Valley in what is now northern Sudan and southern Egypt.
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Kong Empire
The Kong Empire (1710–1898), also known as the Wattara Empire or Ouattara Empire for its founder, was a pre-colonial African Muslim state centered in northeastern Ivory Coast that also encompassed much of present-day Burkina Faso.
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Law of France
French law has a dual jurisdictional system comprising private law (droit privé), also known as judicial law, and public law (droit public).
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Liberia
Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast.
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Libya
Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
List of mosques in Africa
This is a list of mosques in Africa.
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List of the oldest mosques
The oldest mosques in the world can refer to the oldest, surviving building or to the oldest mosque congregation.
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Madhhab
A madhhab (way to act,, pl. label) refers to any school of thought within Islamic jurisprudence.
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Maghrawa
The Maghrawa or Meghrawa (المغراويون) were a large Zenata Berber tribal confederation whose cradle and seat of power was the territory located on the Chlef in the north-western part of today's Algeria, bounded by the Ouarsenis to the south, the Mediterranean Sea to the north and Tlemcen to the west.
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Majeerteen Sultanate
The Majeerteen Sultanate (lit, سلطنة مجرتين), or Majerteen Kingdom also known as Majeerteenia and Migiurtinia, was a Somali kingdom centered in the Horn of Africa.
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Makhzumi dynasty
The Makhzumi dynasty also known as Sultanate of Shewa or Shewa Sultanate, was a Muslim kingdom in present-day Ethiopia.
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Malawi
Malawi (in Chichewa and Chitumbuka), officially the Republic of Malawi and formerly known as Nyasaland, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa.
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Mali
Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa.
Mali Empire
The Mali Empire (Manding: MandéKi-Zerbo, Joseph: UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. IV, Abridged Edition: Africa from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century, p. 57. University of California Press, 1997. or Manden Duguba; Mālī) was an empire in West Africa from 1226 to 1670.
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Maliki school
The Maliki school or Malikism (translit) is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam.
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Marinid Sultanate
The Marinid Sultanate was a Berber Muslim empire from the mid-13th to the 15th century which controlled present-day Morocco and, intermittently, other parts of North Africa (Algeria and Tunisia) and of the southern Iberian Peninsula (Spain) around Gibraltar.
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Masjid al-Qiblatayn, Zeila
Masjid al-Qiblatayn (lit) is a mosque in Zeila, situated in the western Awdal region of Somaliland.
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Massawa
Massawa or Mitsiwa (Məṣṣəwaʿ; ባጸዕ, or ባድዕ,; ምጽዋ; مَصَّوَع; Massaua; Maçuá) is a port city in the Northern Red Sea region of Eritrea, located on the Red Sea at the northern end of the Gulf of Zula beside the Dahlak Archipelago.
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Mecca
Mecca (officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah) is the capital of Mecca Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia and the holiest city according to Islam.
Medina
Medina, officially Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah, is the capital of Medina Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia.
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Middle East
The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
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Migration to Abyssinia
The migration to Abyssinia (translit), also known as the First Hijra (label), was an episode in the early history of Islam, where the first followers of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (they were known as the Sahabah, or the companions) migrated from Arabia due to their persecution by the Quraysh, the ruling Arab tribal confederation of Mecca.
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Mihrab
Mihrab (محراب,, pl. محاريب) is a niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the qibla, the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca towards which Muslims should face when praying.
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Moors
The term Moor is an exonym first used by Christian Europeans to designate the Muslim populations of the Maghreb, al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula), Sicily and Malta during the Middle Ages.
Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
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Mosque
A mosque, also called a masjid, is a place of worship for Muslims.
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Mosque of the Companions
The Mosque of the Companions (مَسْجِد ٱلصَّحَابَة|Masjid aṣ-Ṣaḥābah) is a mosque in the city of Massawa, Eritrea.
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Mozambique
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest.
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Muhammad
Muhammad (570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam.
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Muslim world
The terms Muslim world and Islamic world commonly refer to the Islamic community, which is also known as the Ummah.
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Muslims
Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
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Nehemia Levtzion
Nehemia Levtzion (נחמיה לבציון; November 24, 1935 — August 15, 2003) was an Israeli scholar of African history, Near East, Islamic, and African studies, and the President of the Open University of Israel from 1987 to 1992 and the Executive Director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute from 1994 to 1997.
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Niger
Niger or the Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a country in West Africa.
Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.
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Nile
The Nile (also known as the Nile River) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa.
Non-denominational Muslim
Non-denominational Muslims are Muslims who do not belong to, do not self-identify with, or cannot be readily classified under one of the identifiable Islamic schools and branches.
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North Africa
North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.
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Pew Research Center
The Pew Research Center (also simply known as Pew) is a nonpartisan American think tank based in Washington, D.C. It provides information on social issues, public opinion, and demographic trends shaping the United States and the world.
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Polytheism
Polytheism is the belief in or worship of more than one god.
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Qibla
The qibla (lit) is the direction towards the Kaaba in the Sacred Mosque in Mecca, which is used by Muslims in various religious contexts, particularly the direction of prayer for the salah.
Quranism
Quranism (translit) is an Islamic movement that holds the belief that the Quran is the only valid source of religious belief, guidance, and law in Islam.
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Red Sea
The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia.
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Religion in Benin
Christianity is the largest religion in Benin, with substantial populations of Muslims and adherents of traditional faiths.
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Religion in Botswana
Christianity is the largest religion in Botswana.
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Religion in Eritrea
Religion in Eritrea consists of a number of faiths.
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Religious reform
A religious reform (from Latin re-: "back, again", and formare: "to form"; i.e. put together: "to restore, reconstruct, rebuild") aims at the reform of religious teachings.
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Saadi Sultanate
The Saadi Sultanate (translit), also known as the Sharifian Sultanate, was a state which ruled present-day Morocco and parts of West Africa in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Sahel
The Sahel region or Sahelian acacia savanna is a biogeographical region in Africa.
Salafi movement
The Salafi movement or Salafism is a revival movement within Sunni Islam, which was formed as a socio-religious movement during the late 19th century and has remained influential in the Islamic world for over a century.
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Senegal
Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country.
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Senegal River
The Senegal River (Dexug Senegaal, Nahr as-Siniġāl, Fleuve Sénégal) is a river in West Africa; much of its length marks part of the border between Senegal and Mauritania.
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Shafi'i school
The Shafi'i school or Shafi'ism (translit) is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam.
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Sharia
Sharia (sharīʿah) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and hadith.
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Sokoto Caliphate
The Sokoto Caliphate (دولة الخلافة في بلاد السودان), also known as the Sultanate of Sokoto, was a Sunni Muslim caliphate in West Africa.
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Somalia
Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa.
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Somaliland
Somaliland, officially the Republic of Somaliland, is an unrecognised country in the Horn of Africa.
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Songhai Empire
The Songhai Empire was a state located in the western part of the Sahel during the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Strait of Gibraltar
The Strait of Gibraltar is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Europe from Africa.
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Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa, Subsahara, or Non-Mediterranean Africa is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara.
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Sudan
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.
Sufism
Sufism is a mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic purification, spirituality, ritualism and asceticism.
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Sultanate of Darfur
The Sultanate of Darfur was a pre-colonial state in present-day Sudan.
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Sultanate of Hobyo
The Sultanate of Hobyo (Saldanadda Hobyo, سلطنة هوبيو), also known as the Sultanate of Obbia,New International Encyclopedia, Volume 21, (Dodd, Mead: 1916), p.283.
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Sultanate of Ifat
The Sultanate of Ifat, known as Wafāt or Awfāt in Arabic texts, or the Kingdom of Zeila was a medieval Sunni Muslim state in the eastern regions of the Horn of Africa between the late 13th century and early 15th century.
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Sultanate of Mogadishu
The Sultanate of Mogadishu (Saldanadda Muqdisho, سلطنة مقديشو), also known as Kingdom of Magadazo, was a medieval Muslim sultanate centered in southern Somalia.
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Sultanate of Zanzibar
The Sultanate of Zanzibar (Usultani wa Zanzibar, translit), also known as the Zanzibar Sultanate, was an East African Muslim state controlled by the Sultan of Zanzibar, in place between 1856 and 1964.
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Sunni Islam
Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.
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Swahili coast
The Swahili coast (Pwani ya Waswahili) is a coastal area of East Africa, bordered by the Indian Ocean and inhabited by the Swahili people.
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Syncretism
Syncretism is the practice of combining different beliefs and various schools of thought.
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Tanzania
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, (formerly Swahililand) is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.
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Thomas Walker Arnold
Sir Thomas Walker Arnold (19 April 1864 – 9 June 1930) was a British orientalist and historian of Islamic art.
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Trade and pilgrimage routes of Ghana
The trade and pilgrimage routes of Ghana are located in the Bono, Bono East, Ahafo, Savannah, North East, Northern, and Upper East Regions of northern Ghana.
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Traditional African religions
The beliefs and practices of African people are highly diverse, including various ethnic religions.
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Tunisia
Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is the northernmost country in Africa.
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Uganda
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa.
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Ulama
In Islam, the ulama (the learned ones; singular ʿālim; feminine singular alimah; plural aalimath), also spelled ulema, are scholars of Islamic doctrine and law.
Umar
Umar ibn al-Khattab (ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb), also spelled Omar, was the second Rashidun caliph, ruling from August 634, when he succeeded Abu Bakr as the second caliph, until his assassination in 644.
Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz
Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz ibn Marwan (translit; February 720) was the eighth Umayyad caliph, ruling from 717 until his death in 720.
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Umayyad dynasty
The Umayyad dynasty (Sons of Umayya) or Umayyads (al-Umawiyyūn) was an Arab clan within the Quraysh tribe who were the ruling family of the Caliphate between 661 and 750 and later of al-Andalus between 756 and 1031.
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Ummah
(أُمَّة) is an Arabic word meaning "nation".
Usman dan Fodio
Shehu Usman dan Fodio (translit; full name; 15 December 1754 – 20 April 1817).
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Uthman
Uthman ibn Affan (translit; 17 June 656) was the third caliph, ruling from 644 until his assassination in 656.
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Wadai Sultanate
The Wadai Sultanate (سلطنة وداي Saltanat Waday, royaume du Ouaddaï, Fur: Burgu or Birgu; 1501–1912), sometimes referred to as the Maba Sultanate (Sultanat Maba), was an African sultanate located to the east of Lake Chad in present-day Chad and the Central African Republic.
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Walashma dynasty
The Walashma dynasty was a medieval Muslim dynasty of the Horn of Africa founded in Ifat (modern eastern Shewa).
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Wassoulou Empire
The Wassoulou empire, also referred to as the Mandinka Empire, Samory's Empire or the Samorian State, was a short-lived West African state that existed from roughly 1878 until 1898, although dates vary from source to source.
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Wattasid dynasty
The Wattasid dynasty (الوطاسيون, al-waṭṭāsīyūn) was a ruling dynasty of Morocco.
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West Africa
West Africa, or Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).Paul R.
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Wiley (publisher)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.
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World History Encyclopedia
World History Encyclopedia (formerly Ancient History Encyclopedia) is a nonprofit educational company created in 2009 by Jan van der Crabben.
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Ya'qubi
ʾAbū al-ʿAbbās ʾAḥmad bin ʾAbī Yaʿqūb bin Ǧaʿfar bin Wahb bin Waḍīḥ al-Yaʿqūbī (died 897/8), commonly referred to simply by his nisba al-Yaʿqūbī, was an Arab Muslim geographer.
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Yoruba people
The Yoruba people (Ọmọ Odùduwà, Ọmọ Káàárọ̀-oòjíire) are a West African ethnic group who mainly inhabit parts of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo.
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Zeila
Zeila (Saylac, Zayla), also known as Zaila or Zayla, is a historical port town in the western Awdal region of Somaliland.
References
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