Nana Asma’u

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Muslim scholar educator person poet women’s rights advocate

Nana Asma’u was a 19th-century Fulani Muslim scholar, poet, and educator renowned for her influential role in promoting women's education and Islamic learning in the Sokoto Caliphate.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Nana Asma’u canonical	8
Nana Asma’u bint Usman dan Fodio	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Muslim scholar ⓘ educator ⓘ person ⓘ poet ⓘ women’s rights advocate ⓘ
centuryOfActivity	19th century ⓘ
countryOfActivity	Sokoto Caliphate ⓘ
culturalContext	West African Islam ⓘ
ethnicity	Fulani ⓘ
father	Usman dan Fodio ⓘ
fieldOfWork	Islamic jurisprudence ⓘ Qur’anic exegesis ⓘ Sufism ⓘ women’s religious education ⓘ
founded	Yan Taru ⓘ
fullName	Nana Asma’u self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Nana Asma’u bint Usman dan Fodio
gender	female ⓘ
ideology	Sunni Islam ⓘ
influenced	Muslim women’s education in West Africa ⓘ later Islamic women scholars ⓘ
knownFor	Yan Taru women’s educational network ⓘ
languageWritten	Ajami script ⓘ surface form: Ajami scripts Arabic ⓘ Fulfulde ⓘ Hausa ⓘ
legacy	inspiration for contemporary Muslim women educators ⓘ model of Muslim female scholarship in West Africa ⓘ
movement	Sokoto Jihad ⓘ surface form: Sokoto jihad movement
name	Nana Asma’u self-link ⓘ
notableFor	Islamic scholarship ⓘ educational work in the Sokoto Caliphate ⓘ poetry in multiple languages ⓘ promoting women’s education ⓘ
occupation	advisor ⓘ poet ⓘ scholar ⓘ teacher ⓘ
placeOfActivity	Sokoto ⓘ
position	intellectual leader in the Sokoto Caliphate ⓘ
regionOfActivity	Hausaland ⓘ
religion	Islam ⓘ
roleInSociety	court intellectual ⓘ religious instructor for women ⓘ
sibling	Muhammad Bello ⓘ
SufiOrder	Qadiriyya Sufi tradition ⓘ surface form: Qadiriyya
wroteAbout	Islamic law ⓘ ethics ⓘ history of the Sokoto jihad ⓘ women’s religious duties ⓘ

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Fulani → notableLeader → Nana Asma’u ⓘ

Usman dan Fodio → child → Nana Asma’u ⓘ

Nana Asma’u → name → Nana Asma’u self-link ⓘ

Nana Asma’u → fullName → Nana Asma’u self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Nana Asma’u bint Usman dan Fodio

West African Islam → keyFigure → Nana Asma’u ⓘ

Muhammad Bello → relative → Nana Asma’u ⓘ

Shaykh Uthman ibn Fudi → relative → Nana Asma’u ⓘ

subject surface form: Usman dan Fodio

Shaykh Uthman ibn Fudi → child → Nana Asma’u ⓘ

subject surface form: Usman dan Fodio

Shaykh Uthman ibn Fudi → influenced → Nana Asma’u ⓘ

subject surface form: Usman dan Fodio