Usman dan Fodio, Scholar and reformer of Hausaland: Scholar in Islamic History

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Usman dan Fodioعثمان بن فودي

1754-1817 CEApproximate dateSokoto

A Fulani scholar whose call for justice grew into the Sokoto Caliphate.

For decades he preached across Hausaland against corrupt rule and un-Islamic customs, and taught women alongside men. When the king of Gobir turned on his community, he made a hijrah in 1804, and the jihad that followed united the region under one caliphate. He left government to his son Muhammad Bello and brother Abdullahi and kept writing.

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The Sokoto Caliphate and his many works in Arabic, Fulfulde and Hausa shaped northern Nigeria.

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Usman dan Fodioعثمان بن فودي

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