À partir de XIXᵉ siècle
Hausaland and present-day northern and western Nigeria
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The Sokoto Caliphate emerged from the jihad of ʿUthmān dan Fodio in Hausaland in 1804. By the 1820s it covered almost all of the former Northern Region and parts of the former Western Region of Nigeria. Its creation formed part of a broader Islamic political transformation in the Western Sudan and contributed to the replacement of older Hausa ruling elites by predominantly Fulbe clerical authorities.
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The Sokoto Caliphate arose from the jihad led by ʿUthmān dan Fodio in Hausaland in 1804. It was one of the principal political outcomes of the militant Islamic revolutions that transformed the Western Sudan during the nineteenth century. The movement sought to place communal life under Islamic law and to challenge political oppression, social injustice, and unlawful taxation.
By the 1820s, the caliphate covered almost the whole of the former Northern Region and parts of the former Western Region of Nigeria. Its territorial scale made it one of the largest political formations created by the nineteenth-century Islamic revolutions. The new order also shifted political authority away from older Hausa elites toward a predominantly Fulbe clerical elite.
The caliphate did not produce a completely uniform Islamic society. The leaders of the jihads had to compromise with existing sociopolitical institutions and local realities. In Hausaland, the resulting society became a Fulbe-Hausa culture heavily shaped by Islam while retaining elements of earlier political and social structures.
À partir de XIXᵉ siècle
Hausaland and present-day northern and western Nigeria
Traduction non disponible · Original (anglais) · français indisponible
The Sokoto Caliphate emerged from the jihad of ʿUthmān dan Fodio in Hausaland in 1804. By the 1820s it covered almost all of the former Northern Region and parts of the former Western Region of Nigeria. Its creation formed part of a broader Islamic political transformation in the Western Sudan and contributed to the replacement of older Hausa ruling elites by predominantly Fulbe clerical authorities.
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Le récit
The Sokoto Caliphate arose from the jihad led by ʿUthmān dan Fodio in Hausaland in 1804. It was one of the principal political outcomes of the militant Islamic revolutions that transformed the Western Sudan during the nineteenth century. The movement sought to place communal life under Islamic law and to challenge political oppression, social injustice, and unlawful taxation.
By the 1820s, the caliphate covered almost the whole of the former Northern Region and parts of the former Western Region of Nigeria. Its territorial scale made it one of the largest political formations created by the nineteenth-century Islamic revolutions. The new order also shifted political authority away from older Hausa elites toward a predominantly Fulbe clerical elite.
The caliphate did not produce a completely uniform Islamic society. The leaders of the jihads had to compromise with existing sociopolitical institutions and local realities. In Hausaland, the resulting society became a Fulbe-Hausa culture heavily shaped by Islam while retaining elements of earlier political and social structures.