Muhammadu Bello

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Muhammadu Bello was the second Sultan of Sokoto and a prominent 19th-century Islamic scholar and statesman in what is now northern Nigeria.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Islamic scholar
Nigerian person
Sultan
historical figure
statesman
areaOfActivity Hausaland
northern Nigeria NERFINISHED
centuryOfActivity 19th century
continent Africa
countryOfCitizenship Sokoto Caliphate
denomination Maliki school
Qadiriyya
surface form: Qadiri Sufism
ethnicGroup Fulani
familyName Bello
father Usman dan Fodio
givenName Muhammadu
ideology Sunni Islam
influenced later Islamic scholars in northern Nigeria
influencedBy Usman dan Fodio
classical Maliki jurists
knownFor Islamic scholarship
political writings on governance
state-building in the Sokoto Caliphate
languageOfWorkOrName Arabic
Fulfulde
Hausa
monarchOf Sokoto Caliphate
mother Aisha bint Uthman
movement Sokoto Jihad
surface form: Sokoto jihad
notableRole administrative reorganization of northern Nigerian emirates
consolidation of the Sokoto Caliphate
notableWork Infaq al-Maysur
Kitab al-Ribq
Usul al-Siyasa
occupation jurist
poet
ruler
writer
partOf Sultan of Sokoto
surface form: Sokoto royal family
positionHeld Sultan of Sokoto
predecessor Usman dan Fodio
primarySourceOfInformation chronicles of the Sokoto Caliphate
region West Africa
religion Islam
successor Abu Bakr Atiku
territorialExpansion extension of Sokoto authority over Hausa emirates
title Amir al-Mu’minin
surface form: Amir al-Mu'minin

Sarkin Musulmi

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Sokoto State historicalFigureAssociated Muhammadu Bello
Muhammadu notableBearer Muhammadu Bello