Fulani Empire

E292125
Islamic state historical polity pre-colonial African empire

The Fulani Empire was a powerful 19th-century West African Islamic state centered in what is now northern Nigeria, established through a jihad that reshaped the region’s political and religious landscape.

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Label Occurrences
Fulani Empire canonical 1

Statements (58)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Islamic state ⓘ
historical polity ⓘ
pre-colonial African empire ⓘ
basedOn Islamic law ⓘ
capital Sokoto ⓘ
commonLanguage Fulfulde ⓘ
Hausa ⓘ
conqueredBy British Empire ⓘ
continent Africa ⓘ
currency cowrie shells ⓘ
economy agriculture ⓘ
pastoralism ⓘ
trans-Saharan trade ⓘ
endTime 1903 ⓘ
establishedThrough Fulani Jihad ⓘ
jihad ⓘ
ethnicGroup Fulani ⓘ
Hausa people ⓘ
surface form: Hausa
expandedInto Cameroon ⓘ
Niger ⓘ
Northern Benin ⓘ
Northern Burkina Faso ⓘ
Northern Nigeria ⓘ
followedBy British Nigeria ⓘ
foundedBy Usman dan Fodio ⓘ
governmentType Caliphate ⓘ
theocratic monarchy ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Sokoto Caliphate ⓘ
Sokoto Caliphate ⓘ
surface form: Sokoto Empire
hasCenter Gwandu ⓘ
Sokoto ⓘ
influenced Islamic scholarship in Hausaland ⓘ
spread of Islam in West Africa ⓘ
lastRuler Muhammadu Attahiru II ⓘ
leaderTitle Caliph ⓘ
Sultan of Sokoto ⓘ
legalSystem Sharia ⓘ
locatedIn Northern Nigeria ⓘ
West Africa ⓘ
militaryConflict British conquest of Northern Nigeria ⓘ
Fulani Jihad ⓘ
namedAfter Fulani ⓘ
surface form: Fulani people
notableFor Islamic reform ⓘ
jihad-led state formation ⓘ
reshaping political and religious landscape of Northern Nigeria ⓘ
notableLeader Abdullahi dan Fodio ⓘ
Aliyu Babba ⓘ
Muhammad Bello ⓘ
Usman dan Fodio ⓘ
officialLanguage Arabic ⓘ
overthrownBy British Empire ⓘ
partOf Sahel ⓘ
surface form: Sahel region
precededBy Hausa city-states ⓘ
religion Maliki school ⓘ
surface form: Maliki school of Sunni Islam

Sunni Islam ⓘ
startTime 1804 ⓘ
timePeriod 19th century ⓘ
used slave labor ⓘ

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Usman dan Fodio → founded → Fulani Empire ⓘ