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al-Hajj Umar Tal

الحاج عمر الفوتي تال

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† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Draft card for al-Hajj Umar ibn Sa'id al-Futi Tal, the Tijani mujahid and Toucouleur scholar who founded a state in West Africa; he died in 1864 and his entry is not yet checked on the page.

Depth

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Roles
sufi master · Ruler
Era
The Colonial Era
Region
West Africa & Sahel
Identifiers
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Life in time

17751800182518501875190019251950 c. c.
The Colonial Era · The Gunpowder Empires · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abadi Bano Begum · Abai Qunanbaiuly · Abd al-Aziz (Ottoman) · Abd al-Ghaffar al-Akhras · Abd al-Ghani al-Maydani

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Parent of
Ahmadu Tall
Opposed by
Ba Lobbo

People and things also explored

Alboury Ndiaye· Mamadou Lamine Drame· Seku Amadu· Ahmadu Tall· Ba Lobbo

Sources

  • al-Alam — al-Zirikli
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Alboury Ndiaye

Alboury Ndiaye (c. 1848 – 1901), the last Buurba (king) of an independent Jolof in present-day Senegal, famed for his determined resistance to the French conquest. Born at Tyal in Jolof, he lost his father in 1851 and was raised in Cayor alongside his kinsman Lat Dior; with Lat Dior he embraced Islam in the 1860s under the marabout Maba Diakhou Ba, whose daughter he married. He became Buurba in 1875, re-established firm royal control, continued the Islamization of Jolof and fortified his capital Yang-Yang; he backed his cousin Lat Dior against the French, and Jolof remained the last independent kingdom of northern Senegambia until Dodds marched on Yang-Yang in May 1890. He then moved east to Ahmadu Tall and fought beside him, and continued towards Sokoto until he died at Dosso in Niger in 1901.