Sokoto Caliphate

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Caliphate Islamic empire Pre-colonial African state

The Sokoto Caliphate was a powerful 19th-century Islamic empire in West Africa that became a major center of Islamic learning, governance, and trade.

Aliases (2)

Sokoto Sultanate ×1
Sultanate of Sokoto ×1

Statements (69)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Caliphate → Islamic empire → Pre-colonial African state →
administrativeStructure	Network of semi-autonomous emirates →
alternativeName	Sokoto Sultanate → Sultanate of Sokoto →
areaOfInfluence	Present-day Burkina Faso → Present-day Cameroon → Present-day Chad → Present-day Niger → Present-day northern Nigeria →
associatedDynasty	Fulani →
capital	Sokoto →
commonLanguage	Fulfulde → Hausa →
conflict	Fulani Jihad → Sokoto Jihad →
conqueredBy	British Empire →
continent	Africa →
currency	Barter → Cowrie shells → Gold →
dissolved	1903 →
economicBase	Agriculture → Slave labor → Trans-Saharan trade →
educationFocus	Islamic jurisprudence → Quranic studies →
endTime	1903 →
era	19th century →
establishedBy	Fulani Jihad →
event	British conquest of Sokoto in 1903 →
followedBy	British Nigeria → Northern Nigeria Protectorate →
foundedBy	Usman dan Fodio →
founder	Usman dan Fodio →
governmentType	Islamic theocracy → Monarchy →
hasPart	Adamawa Emirate → Bauchi Emirate → Gwandu Emirate → Hadejia Emirate → Kano Emirate → Katsina Emirate → Zaria Emirate →
influenced	Later Islamic reform movements in West Africa →
intellectualTradition	Maliki jurisprudence → Qadiriyya Sufism →
knownFor	Center of Islamic learning → Extensive trade networks → Qadiriyya Sufi order influence → System of emirates →
legalSystem	Islamic law →
legislativeBasis	Sharia →
locatedIn	West Africa →
notableLeader	Abdullahi dan Fodio → Aliyu Babba → Muhammad Bello → Usman dan Fodio →
officialLanguage	Arabic →
precededBy	Gobir → Hausa city-states → Kano Emirate (pre-jihad Hausa state) →
religion	Islam → Sunni Islam →
religiousMovement	Reformist jihad →
spiritualCenter	Sokoto →
startTime	1804 →
titleOfRuler	Sultan of Sokoto →

Referenced by (13)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Sokoto Caliphate ("Sokoto Sultanate") → Sokoto Caliphate ("Sultanate of Sokoto") →	alternativeName
Ilorin → Kebbi State →	historicalAffiliation
Nana Asma’u →	countryOfActivity
Usman dan Fodio →	countryOfCitizenship
Usman dan Fodio →	deathPlace
Sokoto →	formerCapitalOf
Usman dan Fodio →	founded
Northern Nigeria →	hasHistoricalEntity
Sokoto State →	historicalEntityPrecededBy
Hausa-Fulani →	historicallyLinkedTo
Katsina Emirate →	influencedBy