Shehu Usman Dan Fodio: The Islamic Scholar Who Founded the Sokoto Caliphate (1754–1817)
Shehu Usman Dan Fodio: The Islamic Scholar Who Founded the Sokoto Caliphate (1754–1817) Shehu Usman Dan Fodio, born in December 1754 in Maratta, Gobir (present-day northern Nigeria), was a prominent Fulani Islamic scholar, philosopher, and spiritual reformer. Between 1804 and 1808, he led a major Islamic revolution, often referred to as a jihad, that resulted…