https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDNbm6aYFO0
For decades he clashed with an oppressive class of rulers and just so happened to found a new Caliphate state along the way in Africa. He was perhaps one of

https://www.dw.com/en/usman-dan-fodio-founder-of-the-sokoto-caliphate/a-51995841
The holy war inspired a series of holy wars throughout West Africa at the time and Islam became the dominant faith among the people of West Africa. In 1837, the Sokoto Caliphate, with an estimated

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Quick Reference. Founded in the nineteenth century in Nigeria by Uthman Dan Fodio, who led a holy war against rulers of Hausa states in order to unite the populace under the caliphate, which was a loose confederation of emirates that recognized the leader as "commander of the faithful.". Many descendants of the founder became part of the

https://rpl.hds.harvard.edu/faq/sokoto-caliphate
The Sokoto Caliphate was a West African Empire that became a part of northern Nigeria. It was founded by the charismatic Fulani Islamic scholar and political leader Usman dan Fodio upon his conquer of the Hausa people. Usman dan Fodio created a unified political and economic polity while promulgating a reformist Islamic movement meant to correct syncretic, lax, or superficially Islamic

https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hic3.12482
Contemporary Nigeria is a product of multiple historical experiences dating back to the antiquities. The nation's uncommon diversity of language, culture, and religion are mostly encapsulated in the foundation and continuing relevance of the Sokoto Caliphate, an Islamic polity founded on the principles of reform and restoration by Usman Dan Fodio in 1804.

https://face2faceafrica.com/article/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-sokoto-caliphate-the-african-empire-that-existed-for-94-years
One of these is the Sokoto Caliphate, which existed in modern-day Nigeria and extended to Burkina Faso, Niger and Cameroon. The Sokoto Caliphate was established following a holy war in 1804.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/african-studies-review/article/abs/contradictions-in-creating-a-jihadi-capital-sokoto-in-the-nineteenth-century-and-its-legacy/E04D5765B194B682FEA296219A74F51B
The Sokoto caliphate in nineteenth-century northern Nigeria was an astonishing episode in the history of Africa: a huge, prosperous polity that created unity where none had existed before. Yet today its history is underexplored, sometimes ignored or even disparaged, both within Nigeria and in Europe and the U.S. Yet that history is extraordinary.

https://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/06/14/sultan.sokoto.nigeria/index.html
Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar is the spiritual leader of Nigeria's 70 million Muslims; ... As heir to the 200-year-old throne of West Africa's 19th-century Caliphate Empire, Abubakar is one of the most

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliphate
Sokoto Caliphate (1804-1903) The Sokoto Caliphate was an Islamic state in what is now Nigeria led by Usman dan Fodio. Founded during the Fulani War in the early nineteenth century, it controlled one of the most powerful empires in sub-Saharan Africa prior to European conquest and colonisation.

https://academic.oup.com/book/39071/chapter/338399135
Professor H. F. C. Smith in the History Department, first at University College Ibadan and then at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, liked to use the term "caliphate" when teaching the histories of, first, the Nigerian Shaikh 'Uthman ibn Fudi, the leader of the jihad and first imam of his community (1804-1817), and then of his son and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokoto_Caliphate
The Sokoto Caliphate (Arabic: دولة الخلافة في بلاد السودان), also known as the Sultanate of Sokoto, was a Sunni Muslim caliphate in West Africa.It was founded by Usman dan Fodio in 1804 during the Fulani jihads after defeating the Hausa Kingdoms in the Fulani War.The boundaries of the caliphate are part of present-day Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Nigeria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Nigeria
Islam is one of the largest religions in Nigeria and the country has the largest Muslim population in Africa. [1] In 2018, the CIA World Factbook estimated that 53.5% of Nigeria's population is Muslim. [2] Islam is predominantly concentrated in the northern half of the country, with a significant Muslim minority existing in the southern region. [3]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/4chapter5.shtml
SOKOTO. Uprisings sprung up in Katsina, Kano, Kebbi, Zamfara, Zaria and finally Gobir. The old Hausa aristocracy fell and Usman dan Fodio established a caliphate at Sokoto in 1809, which had

https://www.historyhit.com/a-short-history-of-the-caliphate-632-ad-present/
The Caliphate 632 - 655. The Caliph's authority was commonly justified by quoting the 55th verse of the Al-Nur Sura [24:55], which refers to the "Caliphs" as Allah's instruments. Since 632, Islam as a territorial organism,was ruled by the Caliphs' authority. Although the Caliphate was subject to many changes through time as the

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27140681
as the Uqba figure who founded the Torobbe, a branch of the Fulani to which Usman dan Fodio and much of the Sokoto leadership claimed membership - or non-Muslims, tyrants and slaves - for Sokoto's enemies. In this way, Zehnle 1 Camille Lefebvre, Frontières de sable, frontières de papier. Histoire de territoires et de frontières,

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13809501
24 November 2016. AFP. Abubakar Shekau (centre) pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group but it later disowned him. Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram - which has caused havoc in

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24520309
constitute Sokoto Caliphate emirates on the north and West b^nks of the river Niger. Apart from sharing common boundaries, Nupe and Ilorin emirates were placed under Gwandu sphere of political influence in the scheme of things of the Sokoto Caliphate System (Balogun, 1970). However, Ilorin emirates was founded earlier than the Nupe emirates.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/48598918
Nigeria; Kanuri; Caliphate Introduction In August 2014, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau announced the crea-tion of an Islamic state, a so-called caliphate, in areas of northeast Nigeria under the control of Boko Haram. This was consistent with Muhammad Yusuf s (Shekau s predecessor and founder of Boko Haram) long-standing

https://www.dw.com/en/usman-dan-fodio-founder-of-the-sokoto-caliphate/video-54382670
Usman dan Fodio was born on December 15, 1754 in the village of Maratta, in the Hausa-speaking city state of Gobir, in what is today northern Nigeria. He studied law, theology and philosophy in

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/sultan-nigerian-muslims-not-taking-alleged-removal-plot-lightly-despite-denial/ar-BB1p1XXX
Disu, in a statement, said the Sul­tan's wise leadership and dedication to the Sultanate, a two century-old throne founded by his ancestor, Sheikh Us­man Dan Fodio (1754-1817), and Nige

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_caliphs
A caliph is the supreme religious and political leader of an Islamic state known as the caliphate. Caliphs led the Muslim Ummah as political successors to the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and widely-recognised caliphates have existed in various forms for most of Islamic history.. The first caliphate, the Rashidun Caliphate, was ruled by the four Rashidun caliphs (Arabic: الخلفاء

https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Khilafah_(Caliphate)
1 / 4. The Caliph (خليفة‎; khalīfah) is the head of state in a Caliphate, and the title for the leader of the Islamic Ummah (body of Muslim believers) who serves as the successor to Muhammad, the founder of Islam, in all matters of political and religious decision making. The word of the caliph is, however, only legally and not

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashidun_Caliphate
The Rashidun Caliphate (Arabic: ٱلْخِلَافَةُ ٱلرَّاشِدَةُ, romanized: al-Khilāfah ar-Rāšidah) was the first caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.It was ruled by the first four successive caliphs of Muhammad after his death in 632 CE. During its existence, the empire was the most powerful economic, cultural, and military force in West Asia and Northeast

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umayyad_Caliphate
The Umayyad Caliphate or Umayyad Empire (UK: / uː ˈ m aɪ j æ d /, US: / uː ˈ m aɪ æ d /; Arabic: ٱلْخِلَافَة ٱلْأُمَوِيَّة, romanized: al-Khilāfa al-Umawiyya) was the second caliphate established after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and was ruled by the Umayyad dynasty.