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Usman dan Fodio

1754–1817

Nigeria

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A scholar and reformer, Usman dan Fodio led a jihad that established the Sokoto Caliphate, one of the largest states in nineteenth-century Africa, and inspired a flourishing of Islamic scholarship.

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