The Torodbe; singular Torodo (also called Turudiyya, Banu Toro, Takrur, Toronkawa) were Muslim Toucouleur clerics and theocratic monarchs who preached...

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...

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...

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...

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...

during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In 1776, militant Islamic Torodbe clerics established a theocratic state in the Futa Djallon. With some support...

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...

language autobiography of Omar Ibn Said, a highly literate and cultured Torodbe (Muslim cleric) from the Fula people of modern Senegal, who was enslaved...

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...

Africa: Volume 6. UNESCO Publishing. Ly-Tall, Madina (1989). "Massina and Torodbe (Tukuloor) empire until 1878". General History of Africa: Volume 6. UNESCO...

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...

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...

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...

Senegal), 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...

Denianke ruled animist monarchs over an increasingly Islamic populace. The Torodbe became increasingly influential, opposing Denianke leadership and calling...

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...

during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In 1776, militant Islamic Torodbe clerics established a theocratic state in the Futa Djallon. With some support...

burned by a force of French and Torodbe. Shaikh Amadou would fight a series of battles against Waalo-Waalo, Torodbe, and French enemies. After a defeat...

had a long history of dominating and pillaging Futa Toro. An assembly of Torodbe leaders announced the deposition of Sule Bubu Gaissiri, the last Denyanke...

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...

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...

History. ABC-CLIO. p. 182. ISBN 978-1-61069-752-1. History of Mauritania History of Western Sahara History of Senegal Cayor Torodbe v t e v t e v t e...

was elected after a longer period of political confusion, and that the torodbe leadership was unsure if they wanted to elect a leader as an Almaami, which...

with minorities of Jakhanke, Soninke and other peoples. In 1690, Fula Torodbe cleric Malick Sy came to the region from his home near Podor in the Futa...

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...

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...