The Sultanate of Sokoto is a traditional state in Northern Nigeria with headquarters in the city of Sokoto, capital of the modern Sokoto State. Preceded...
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since British rule defeated the caliphate and replaced it with the Sokoto Sultanate Council in 1903, but the sultan – considered a spiritual leader in the...
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The Sokoto Caliphate (Arabic: دولة الخلافة في بلاد السودان), also known as the Sultanate of Sokoto, was a Sunni Muslim caliphate in West Africa. It was...
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from other parts of Nigeria such as Lagos, Calabar, and Jos. The Sokoto Sultanate Council and Ile-Ife's royal family also sent representatives to take part...
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The Sokoto Grand Vizier, or Wazirin Sokoto, was the Grand Vizier to the Sultan of Sokoto, the Paramount Chief of the Sokoto Caliphate and suzerain of...
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Lynching of Deborah Yakubu (category Crime in Sokoto State)
rhetoric" and cover up the lynching. Sultan of Sokoto Sa’adu Abubakar III and the Sokoto Sultanate Council also condemned the "unfortunate happenings" and...
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organized Northern Nigeria Protectorate. This remnant became known as "Sokoto Sultanate Council". In June 1903, the British defeated the remaining northern forces...
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of the last sultan of Kano in 1807. The sultanate was then replaced by the Kano Emirate, subject to the Sokoto Caliphate. The capital is now the modern...
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Inuwa Abdulkadir (category People from Sokoto)
2015 presidential election. He also served as Secretary of the Sokoto Sultanate Council before later becoming Secretary of the Arewa Consultative Forum...
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Sultanate of Kano Kano Emirate Oyo Empire Oba of Benin Obi Sokoto Caliphate Sokoto Sultanate Council Ooduan dynasties of Yorubaland Kingdom of Bonny Kingdom...
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lost to the incumbent Garba Nadama. He is also a member of the Sokoto Sultanate council with the title of Sarkin Malamai and was a member of the 1977 and...
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The Alawi Sultanate, officially known as the Sharifian Sultanate (Arabic: السلطنة الشريفة) and as the Sultanate of Morocco, was the state ruled by the...
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Sa'adu Abubakar (category Sultans of Sokoto)
born on 24 August 1956, in Sokoto. He is the youngest son of the 17th Sultan, Sir Siddiq Abubakar III, who held the Sultanate for over fifty years. Sa'adu...
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Retrieved 23 June 2022. Suleiman, Qosim. "Alleged Blasphemy: Sokoto sultanate council condemns lynching of student". Premium Times. Retrieved 23 June...
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Sambo Junaidu (category Grand Viziers of Sokoto)
the 13th Wazirin Sokoto and Chairman Advisory Committee on Religious Affairs and Moon Sighting Committee, Sultanate Council, Sokoto. He was a former lecturer...
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Kano Emirate (category Emirates of the Sokoto Caliphate)
when the Muslim Hausa-led Sultanate of Kano was deposed and replaced by a new emirate which became a vassal state of the Sokoto Caliphate. During and after...
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Fula jihads (section Sokoto Caliphate)
Amir al-Mu´minin, also styled Lamido Julbe; on 20 April 1817 Sokoto was styled sultanate (title sultan, also styled Amir al-Mu´minin and Sarkin Musulmi)...
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The Adal Sultanate, also known as the Adal Empire or Bar Saʿad dīn (alt. spelling Adel Sultanate, Adal Sultanate) (Arabic: سلطنة عدل), was a medieval...
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of Kwande) Parakou Djougou Illo Sokoto Caliphate (1804–1904/present AD) (NSM in Nigeria) (List of sultans of Sokoto) (had many emirates as vassals, which...
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History of Northern Nigeria (section Sokoto Period)
to overthrow the Hausa Sultanates. By 1803, a new state known as the Sokoto Caliphate had replaced most of the former sultanates that had held sway over...
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subsequent sultanate has been a topic of intrigue in Somali Studies. Ioan Lewis and Enrico Cerulli believed that the city was founded and ruled by a council of...
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Siddiq Abubakar III (category Sultans of Sokoto)
1996 to become the 19th Sultan of Sokoto. Echiejile, Larry; Tsafe, Aliyu Adamu (12 June 1988). "The Sokoto Sultanate: 50 Years of Abubakar III Reign"....
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the north — Maradi, the Gobir refugee state, and the Sultanate of Damagaram — resisted the Sokoto caliphate. Both areas were culturally Hausaphone in the...
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The Sultanate of Ifat, known as Wafāt or Awfāt in Arabic texts, or the Kingdom of Zeila was a medieval Sunni Muslim state in the eastern regions of the...
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Gobir (category Sokoto State)
jihadist army, beginning the Fulani War and eventually establishing the Sokoto Caliphate. Despite some initial successes by the forces of Gobir and the...
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Ayyubid dynasty (redirect from The Ayyubid Sultanate)
ئەیووبییەکان Eyûbiyan), also known as the Ayyubid Sultanate, was the founding dynasty of the medieval Sultanate of Egypt established by Saladin in 1171, following...
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1867) Selangor – Sultanate of Selangor Serbia – Principality of Serbia Siam – Kingdom of Siam Sikkim – Chogyalate of Sikkim Sokoto – Sokoto Caliphate Spain...
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Ottoman Empire (redirect from Ottoman Sultanate)
the Ottomans, due to the empire's multinational character. As the Rum Sultanate declined in the 13th century, Anatolia was divided into a patchwork of...
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Seljuk Empire (redirect from Great Seljuk Sultanate)
Zengids and Ayyubids in the west. The last surviving Seljuk sultanate to fall was the Sultanate of Rum, which fell in 1308. The founder of the dynasty was...
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man from Timbuktu), ca. 1834 Abu Bakr Atiku (1782–1842), sultan of the Sokoto Caliphate or Fulani Empire Abu Bakr II ibn ʽAbd al-Munan (died 1852), emir...
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