Biography of uthman dan fodio
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?Uthman Dan Fodio (1754–1817)
˓Uthman dan Fodio was a religious scholar and the founder of the Islamic empire of Sokoto in present-day northern Nigeria.
˓Uthman dan Fodio was born in Maratta in the Hausa kingdom of Gobir.
He studied the Qur˒an with his father, and other Islamic sciences such as fiqh and hadith with a number of scholars of the region.
Biography of uthman dan fodio
Through Shaykh Jibril b. ˓Umar he was initiated into the Qadiriyya Sufi brotherhood. After completing his education in circa 1774, he started to teach and preach in Gobir. His preaching brought him into a conflict with the political establishment in Gobir that, although claiming to be Muslim, was still committed to a policy of accommodation with respect to the non-Muslim majority of the population.
In 1804, this conflict led to a military confrontation between the jama˓a (community) of ˓Uthman dan Fodio and the King of Gobir. In the subsequent jihad the jama˓a of Uthman dan Fodio was able not only to defeat the King of Gobir in