Muhammad Bello
Muhammad Bello (1781–1837), second caliph of Sokoto (1817–1837), son of its founder Usman dan Fodio and his father's chief aide. He founded the city of Sokoto in 1809, consolidated the caliphate's administration, courts and schooling, and wrote hundreds of texts on history, Islamic law and poetry, among them the Infaq al-Maysur, the standard history of the Fulani wars; he died at Wurno in 1837.
Reign · Sokoto Caliphate · no. 2 in the chain · 1817–1837 CE
Ruled the caliphate
Events of the reign
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Battle of Gawakuke (1836)
Draft card for Battle of Gawakuke (1836); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Battle of Ilorin (1835)
Draft card for Battle of Ilorin (1835); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Mugbamugba War
Draft card for the Mugbamugba War, the Nupe–Fulani conflict in nineteenth-century Nigeria; its sources are not yet checked on the page.