Usman dan Fodio — Encyclopaedia Britannica

Encyclopaedia Britannica entry on Usman dan Fodio; it dates his birth to December 1754 at Maratta in Gobir and his death to 1817 at Sokoto, and records that Jibril ibn Umar admitted him to the Qadiri and other Sufi orders.

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