Aḥmad al-Kabīr - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Aḥmad al-Kabīr - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Robinson, David

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060556
Doc. NO	:	ALei953
Main Entry	:	Robinson, David
Title & Author	:	Aḥmad al-Kabīr - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Robinson, David
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(775 words)
Abstract	:	Aḥmad al-Kabīr (c. 1834–97) was the oldest son and successor of al-Ḥājj ʿUmar Tall (d. 1864), leader of a jihād against “paganism” in the western parts of present-day Mali between 1852 and 1864. Aḥmad, also called Amadu Sheku and Lam Julbe, “commander of the Faithful” in the Pulaar (Fulfulde) language, was appointed caliph by his father in 1860, during the campaign against the “pagan” Bambara kingdom of Segu, which had flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Shortly after this appointment ʿUmar embarked on his last
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei953.pdf