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Fula jihads, the Glossary

The Fula (or Fulani) jihads (جهاد الفولا) sometimes called the Fulani revolution were a series of jihads that occurred across West Africa during the 18th and 19th centuries, led largely by the Muslim Fula people.^[1]

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Fula history
Offensive jihad
West Africa

Adamawa Emirate

The Adamawa Emirate (Fula: Lamorde Adamaawa,, 𞤤𞤢𞤥𞤮𞤪𞤣𞤫 𞤢𞤣𞤢𞤥𞤢𞥄𞤱𞤢; translit; Adamaua; Adamaoua) is a traditional state located in Fombina, an area which now roughly corresponds to areas of Adamawa State and Taraba state in Nigeria, and previously also in the three northern regions of Cameroon (Far North, North, and Adamawa), including minor Parts of Chad and the Central African Republic. Fula jihads and Adamawa Emirate are fula history.

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Agaie Emirate

The Agaie Emirate was a state created by Malam Baba, a Fulani warrior who conquered the Nupe people of the area in 1822.

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Ahmadu Tall

Ahmadou Sekou Tall (June 21, 1836 – December 15, 1897) (also Ahmadu Sekou, Ahmad al-Madani al-Kabir at-Tijani) was a Toucouleur ruler (Laamdo Dioulbé) of the Toucouleur Empire (1864–93) and (Faama) of Ségou (now Mali) from 1864 to 1884.

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Alfaya (party)

The Alfaya was the name given to the party from the mid-18th century that favored the clerical successors of the jihad leader Karamoko Alfa in the Imamate of Futa Jallon in what is now Guinea.

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Amir al-Mu'minin

(أَمِيْر ٱلْمُؤْمِنِيْن) or Commander of the Faithful is a Muslim title designating the supreme leader of an Islamic community.

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Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.

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Bamana Empire

The Bamana Empire (also Bambara Empire or Ségou Empire, Banbaran Fāmala) was one of the largest states of West Africa in the 18th century.

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Bauchi Emirate

The Bauchi Emirate (Fula: Lamorde Bauchi 𞤤𞤢𞤥𞤮𞤪𞤣𞤫 𞤦𞤢𞤵𞤷𞥅𞤭) was founded by Yaqubu dan Dadi in the early 19th century in what is now Bauchi State, Nigeria, with its capital in Bauchi.

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Bokar Biro

Bokar Biro Barry (or Boubacar Biro) (died 13 November 1896) was the last independent ruler of the Imamate of Futa Jallon in what is now Guinea. Fula jihads and Bokar Biro are fula history.

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Bundu (state)

Bundu (also Bondu, Bondou and Boundou) was a state in West Africa existing from the late 17th century until it became a French protectorate dependent on the colony of Senegal. Fula jihads and Bundu (state) are fula history.

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Cameroon

Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa.

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Colonialism

Colonialism is the pursuing, establishing and maintaining of control and exploitation of people and of resources by a foreign group.

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Dinguiraye

Dinguiraye (N’ko: ߘߌ߲ߞߌߙߊߦߌ߫) is a small town in northern Guinea, known for its large mosque which until recently was thatched.

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Djenné

Djenné (Jɛ̀nɛ́; also known as Djénné, Jenné, and Jenne) is a Songhai town and urban commune in the Inland Niger Delta region of central Mali.

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Emir

Emir (أمير, also transliterated as amir, is a word of Arabic origin that can refer to a male monarch, aristocrat, holder of high-ranking military or political office, or other person possessing actual or ceremonial authority. The title has a long history of use in the Arab World, East Africa, West Africa, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.

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Empire of Great Fulo

The Empire of Great Fulo, also known as the Denanke Kingdom or Denianke Kingdom, was a Pulaar kingdom of Senegal, which dominated the Futa Toro region from the early 16th century to 1776.

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Fouta Djallon

Fouta Djallon (Fuuta Jaloo,,; فوتا جالون) is a highland region in the center of Guinea, roughly corresponding with Middle Guinea, in West Africa.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Fula language

Fula,Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh also known as Fulani or Fulah (Fulfulde, Pulaar, Pular; Adlam: 𞤊𞤵𞤤𞤬𞤵𞤤𞤣𞤫, 𞤆𞤵𞤤𞤢𞥄𞤪, 𞤆𞤵𞤤𞤢𞤪; Ajami: ࢻُلْࢻُلْدٜ, ݒُلَارْ, بُۛلَر), is a Senegambian language spoken by around 36.8 million people as a set of various dialects in a continuum that stretches across some 18 countries in West and Central Africa.

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Fula people

The Fula, Fulani, or Fulɓe people are an ethnic group in Sahara, Sahel and West Africa, widely dispersed across the region.

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Futa Tooro

Futa Toro (Wolof and Fuuta Tooro,,; فوتا تورو), often simply the Futa, is a semidesert region around the middle run of the Senegal River.

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Gombe Emirate

The Gombe Emirate (Fula: Lamurde Gombe 𞤤𞤢𞤥𞤮𞤪𞤣𞤫 𞤺𞤮𞤥𞤥𞤦𞤫) is a traditional state in Nigeria that roughly corresponds in area to the modern Gombe State.The current Emir of Gombe is Alhaji Abubakar Shehu Abubakar III, who acceded on 6 June 2014.

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Guinea

Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (République de Guinée), is a coastal country in West Africa.

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Gwagwalada

Gwagwalada is a local government area in the Federal Capital Territory in Nigeria.

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Gwandu

Gwandu, also called Gando, is a town and emirate in Kebbi State, Nigeria.

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Hadejia

Haɗejiya (also Haɗeja, previously Biram) is a Hausa town in eastern Jigawa State, northern Nigeria.

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Hamdullahi

Hamdullahi (حمد الله; also Hamdallahi or Hamdallaye. From the Arabic: Praise to God) is a town in the Mopti Region of Mali.

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Hausa Kingdoms

Hausa Kingdoms, also known as Hausa Kingdom or Hausaland, was a collection of states ruled by the Hausa people, before the Fulani jihad.

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Hausa people

The Hausa (autonyms for singular: Bahaushe (m), Bahaushiya (f); plural: Hausawa and general: Hausa; exonyms: Ausa; Ajami: مُتَنٜىٰنْ هَوْسَا / هَوْسَاوَا) are a native ethnic group in West Africa.

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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. Fula jihads and Imamate of Futa Jallon are fula history.

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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. Fula jihads and Imamate of Futa Toro are fula history.

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Jamaare

Jama'are is a Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Nigeria.

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Jihad

Jihad (jihād) is an Arabic word which literally means "exerting", "striving", or "struggling", especially with a praiseworthy aim.

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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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Kaarta

Kaarta, or Ka'arta, was a Bambara kingdom that arose after the fall of the Songhai Empire in what is today the western half of Mali and lasted until its destruction by Umar Tall in the 1850s.

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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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Kano (city)

Kano (Ajami: كَنُواْ) is a city in northern Nigeria and the capital of Kano State.

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Katagum

Katagum is a town, a local government area and a traditional emirate in Bauchi State of north eastern Nigeria.

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Katsina

Katsina, likely from "Tamashek" (meaning son or blood) or mazza (men) with "inna" (mother) is a Local Government Area and the capital city of Katsina State, in northern Nigeria.

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Kazaure

Kazaure is an Emirate and a Local Government Area of Jigawa State, Nigeria.

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Keffi

Keffi Local Government Area and a traditional and commercial town in Nasarawa State, north central Nigeria.

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Lamido

Lamido (Adlam: 𞤂𞤢𞤥𞤭𞤣𞤮, pl. Lamibe 𞤂𞤢𞤥𞤭𞤦𞤫) is the Anglicisation of a term from the Fula language or Fulfulde, used to refer to a ruler.

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Lapai Emirate

The Lapai Emirate, today in Nigeria, is a traditional state that lies near the Gurara River, a tributary to the Niger River, formerly originally inhabited where Gbari People, and presently came under the power of Nupe people, covering roughly the same area as the modern Lapai local government area.

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List of sultans of Sokoto

The sultan of Sokoto is the hereditary leader of the Sokoto Caliphate, a Sunni Muslim community in West Africa.

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Mali

Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa.

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Massina Empire

The Caliphate of Hamdullahi (خلافة حمد الله; also: Dina of Massina, Sise Jihad state), commonly known as the Massina empire (also spelled Maasina or Macina), was an early nineteenth-century Sunni Muslim caliphate in West Africa centered in the Inner Niger Delta of what is now the Mopti and Ségou Regions of Mali. Fula jihads and Massina Empire are fula history.

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Modibo

Modibo, or more correctly, Moodibbo, in Fula or Fulfulde Orthography is a given name in some Fulɓe or Fulani regions.

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Mubi (town)

Mubi is a town in Northern Senatorial District of Adamawa State, northeast Nigeria.

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Muhammed Bello

Muhammadu Bello (محمد بلو) was the second Caliph of Sokoto and reigned from 1817 until 1837.

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Muri, Taraba State

Muri (Fula: Lamorde Muri 𞤤𞤢𞤥𞤮𞤪𞤣𞤫 𞤥𞤵𞥅𞤪𞤭) is a town and traditional emirate in Jalingo but covers Karim Lamido LGA ARDO KOLA Yoro, Taraba LGA and others, in northwestern Taraba State, eastern Nigeria, approximately between 9° and 11° 40′ E. and 7° 10′ and 9° 40′ N.

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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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Northern Nigeria Protectorate

Northern Nigeria (Hausa: Arewacin Najeriya) was a British protectorate which lasted from 1900 until 1914, and covered the northern part of what is now Nigeria.

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Omar Saidou Tall

Hadji Oumarûl Foutiyou Tall (ʿUmar ibn Saʿīd al-Fūtī Ṭaʿl, حاج عمر بن سعيد الفوتي طعل, – 1864 CE), born in Futa Tooro, present-day Senegal, was a Senegalese Tijani sufi Toucouleur Islamic scholar and military commander who founded the short-lived Toucouleur Empire, which encompassed much of what is now Senegal, Mauritania, Guinea and Mali.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

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Rivières du Sud

Rivières du Sud (English: Southern Rivers) was a French colonial division in West Africa, roughly corresponding to modern coastal sections of Guinea.

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Scramble for Africa

The Scramble for Africa was the conquest and colonisation of most of Africa by seven Western European powers driven by the Second Industrial Revolution during the era of "New Imperialism" (1833–1914): Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Portugal and Spain.

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Seku Amadu

Sheikhu Ahmadu (Shaykh Aḥmadu bin Muḥammadu Lobbo; Seeku Aamadu) (c. 1776 – 20 April 1845) was the Fulbe founder of the Massina Empire (Diina of Hamdullahi) in the Inner Niger Delta, now the Mopti Region of Mali.

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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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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

Sokoto is a major city located in extreme north-western Nigeria, near the confluence of the Sokoto River and the Rima River.

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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. Fula jihads and Sokoto Caliphate are fula history.

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Soriya

The Soriya was the name given to the party from the mid-18th century that supported the successors of the war leader Ibrahim Sori first cousin of the jihad leader Karamoko Alfa in the Imamate of Futa Jallon in what is now Guinea.

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Sulayman Bal

Shaykh Thierno Sulayman Bal (شيخ سليمان بال, died 1775) was an 18th-century African leader, warrior, and Islamic scholar, from the Futa Toro region in what is today Senegal.

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Suleja Emirate

The Suleja Emirate (Hausa: Masarautar Suleja) is a Hausa principality in what is now Niger State, Nigeria.

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Sultan

Sultan (سلطان) is a position with several historical meanings.

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Torodbe

The Torodbe; singular Torodo (also called Turudiyya, Banu Toro, Takrur, Toronkawa) were Muslim Toucouleur clerics and theocratic monarchs who preached and reigned in Futa Toro, a region located in the north of present-day Senegal, and other Fula communities in West Africa from at least the seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Fula jihads and Torodbe are fula history.

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Toucouleur Empire

The Toucouleur Empire (الخلافة التجانية; also known as the Tijaniyya Jihad state or the Segu Tukulor or the Tidjaniya Caliphate or the Umarian State) (1861–1890) was an Islamic state in the mid-nineteenth century founded by Elhadj Oumar Foutiyou Tall of the Toucouleur people of Senegal. Fula jihads and Toucouleur Empire are fula history.

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Toucouleur people

The Toucouleur people or Tukulor people (توكولور, Toucouleur), also called Haalpulaar (Ajami:, Adlam), are a West African ethnic group native to the Futa Toro region of Senegal.

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Usman dan Fodio

Shehu Usman dan Fodio (translit; full name; 15 December 1754 – 20 April 1817).

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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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Zazzau

The Zazzau, also known as the Zaria Emirate, is a traditional state with headquarters in the city of Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fula_jihads

Also known as Fulani Jihad States, Fulba Jihad state, Fulbe jihad, Fulbe jihad state.

, Muslims, Northern Nigeria Protectorate, Omar Saidou Tall, Ottoman Empire, Rivières du Sud, Scramble for Africa, Seku Amadu, Senegal, Senegal River, Sharia, Sokoto, Sokoto Caliphate, Soriya, Sulayman Bal, Suleja Emirate, Sultan, Torodbe, Toucouleur Empire, Toucouleur people, Usman dan Fodio, West Africa, Zazzau.

Fula jihads, the Glossary

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See also

Fula history

Offensive jihad

West Africa

References