Muhammad dan Yakubu,pronunciationⓘ known as Muhammad Rumfapronunciationⓘ was the Sultan of Kano from 1463 until 1499. His reign was characterized by wealth and opulence and signaled the rise of the Sultanate's commercial dominance in the region. According to the Kano Chronicle, a scholar Abdu Rahaman (in other versions, Abdul Karimi) Muhammad al-Maghili came to the city of Kano during the reign of Rumfa to spread Islam. He brought with him many books. He ordered Rumfa to build a mosque for Friday prayers and to cut down the sacred tree and build a minaret on the site. And when he had established the faith of Islam, and learned men have grown in Kano, Abdul Karimi returned to Massar (Egypt), leaving Sidi Fari as his deputy to carry on his work [1]
Kano chronicles mention Rumfa's reforms as extending the city walls, building a large palace, the Gidan Rumfa, promoting slaves to governmental positions[1] and establishing the Kurmi Market.He was the first Sarki who used "Dawakin Zaggi" in the war with Katsina. He was the first Sarki who practised "Kame". He appointed Durman to go round the dwellings of the Indabawa and take every first-born virgin for him. He was the first sarki to have a thousand wives.
Rumfa's reforms also proved to be the catalyst that would propel Kano to its political peak, resulting in the first Kanoan Empire under his grandson Muhammad Kisoki.[2]
His era of oligarchs came to be eponymously known as the "Rumfawa", and would last until their replacement by the "Kutumbawa" in 1623. Muhammad Rumfa is considered by historians to be Kano's greatest ruler in pre-jihad era due to the reforms executed during his reign.[1]
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] Muhammad al-Maghili was a Berber from North Africa born in what is now Algeria. He wrote On The Obligations of Princes in Kano for MuhammadRumfa in...
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century for MuhammadRumfa then the young grandchild of the Hausa monarch who had just been appointed Makama Kano, a traditional title. Rumfa later became...
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trade routes a few decades earlier in the time of Abdullahi Burja, MuhammadRumfa and his descendants were able to propel the State to the peak of its...
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