CHAPTER 6: THE JIHAD OF UTHMAN DAN FODIO AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SOKOTO CALIPHATE

CHAPTER 6: THE JIHAD OF UTHMAN DAN FODIO AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SOKOTO CALIPHATE
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Description:
The Sokoto Caliphate was an outcome of a political revolution which started in the first decade of the nineteenth century. This important development was as a result of the conditions in Hausaland in the eighteenth century. We shall discuss the various factors which gave rise to the jihad, the role Islam and Islamic leaders led by Sheikh Uthman Dan Fodio played in bringing together the dissatisfied groups under one umbrella by providing them with ideological, organizational and leadership.