The Torodbe; singular Torodo[a] (also called Turudiyya, Banu Toro, Takrur, Toronkawa) were Muslim clerics and theocratic monarchs who preached and reigned in Futa Toro, a region located in the north of present-day Senegal, and other Fula communities in West Africa from at least the seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Drawn from all ethnicites and levels of society, the Torodbe aimed to 'purify' the Islam practiced in West Africa and establish Islamic states run with Islamic law.
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The Torodbe; singular Torodo (also called Turudiyya, Banu Toro, Takrur, Toronkawa) were Muslim clerics and theocratic monarchs who preached and reigned...
category Fulani was not important for the Torodbe and their literature reveals the ambivalence they had defining Torodbe-Fulani relationships. They adopted the...
young age later becoming Usman's wazir.[citation needed] He was from a Torodbe family who are partly Arabs and partly Fulani as stated by Abdullahi dan...
death in 1806, power became decentralized between a few elite families of Torodbes. Threatened by both the expansion of the Toucouleur Empire and the French...
originated from Futa Toro, in what is now Senegal, and are cousins with the Torodbe (Toronkawa) from Sissilo, the husband of Cippowo, a sister of Uthman Toroddo...
scholars called the Torodbe seem to have originated in Futa Toro, later spreading throughout the Fulbe territories. Two of the Torodbe clans in Futa Toro...
language autobiography of Omar Ibn Said, a highly literate and cultured Torodbe (Muslim cleric) from the Fula people of modern Senegal, who was enslaved...
during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In 1776, militant Islamic Torodbe clerics established a theocratic state in the Futa Djallon. With some support...
intrusions with which many nomadic Fulbe were not comfortable.: 53 In 1690, Torodbe cleric Malick Sy came to Bundu, in what is now eastern Senegal, from his...
cultivated a base of support among the Bambara natives of Segou. Still, Torodbe from Futa Toro dominated the upper ranks of the empire.: 109 Ahmadu's...
continued calling to Islam. Born in Gobir, Usman was a descendant of the Torodbe clans of urbanized ethnic Fulani people living in the Hausa Kingdoms since...
was the tenth of twelve children. His father was Saidou Tall, from the Torodbe tribe, and his mother was Sokhna Adama Thiam. Omar Tall attended a madrassa...
died in Liberia within months of arrival. Abdul Rahman Ibrahima was a Torodbe Fulani Muslim prince born in 1762, in Timbuktu, the son of Ibrahima Sori...
cohorts of the population. A small state in present-day Senegal in which Torodbe Malick Sy took power in 1690 in the first successful Fula jihad. It provided...
revolt of Muslim Fula and Malinke broke out under the leadership of the Torodbe cleric Alfa Ba, who declared himself amir al-muminim, or “commander of...
House of Usman dan Fodio Nigerian royal dynasty Parent house Torodbe Current region North Founded 19th century Founder Usman dan Fodio Current head Sa'adu...
around the region, led by groups of educated Fula Muslims known as the Torodbe. In the 1780s Abdul Kader became almaami (religious leader or imam) of...
Denianke ruled animist monarchs over an increasingly Islamic populace. The Torodbe became increasingly influential, opposing Denianke leadership and calling...
had gained support from the Torodbe clerical clan of Futa Tooro in his struggle. After the defeat in 1674, some of the Torodbe migrated south to Bundu and...
during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In 1776, militant Islamic Torodbe clerics established a theocratic state in the Futa Djallon. With some support...
the damel removed food stores and poisoned wells so that the exhausted Torodbe could not replenish their supplies. At the battle of Bunxoy, Amari Ngoone...
became a nominal tributary state in the late 16th century. In 1690, Fula Torodbe cleric Malick Sy came to Gajaaga seeking a place to practice his interpretation...
(Sudan) 22 The Sokoto caliphate and Borno Murray Last (U.K.) 23 Massina and Torodbe (Tukuloor) empire until 1878 Madina Ly-Tall (Mali) 24 States and peoples...
family around the year 1776. His ancestry can be traced to a group of Torodbe from Konni. Prior to the Fulani jihad, Gidado, his father and uncle were...
gained support from the Torodbe clerical clan against the warriors, but by 1677 the movement had been defeated. Some of the Torodbe migrated south to Bundu...
from the Arabic word Faqīh meaning jurist. He belonged to the Toronkawa ('Torodbe' in Fulfulde) clan, known for their rich tradition of Islamic scholarship...
point on the river for large seafaring ships, was particularly prosperous. Torodbe refugees from Futa Toro in the late 18th and early 19th centuries progressively...
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