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Hadji Oumarûl Foutiyou Tall ( ʿUmar ibn Saʿīd al-Fūtī Ṭaʿl, Arabic: حاج عمر بن سعيد الفوتي طعل, c. 1794 – 1864 CE ), born in Futa Tooro, present-day Senegal, was a Senegalese Tijani sufi Toucouleur Islamic scholar and military commander who founded the short-lived Toucouleur Empire, which encompassed much of what is now Senegal, Mauritania, Guin...
Nov 18, 2019 · El Hadj Omar Saidou Tall was a political leader, military commander and Muslim scholar who led the Tidjane brotherhood, a Sufi order in West Africa. He fought French troops from 1857 to...
Dec 5, 2019 · Omar Saidou Tall was born in Imamate Futa Toora present-day Senegal. A revered political leader, Islamic scholar and military commander, Tall founded a brief empire covering much of what is...
Nov 18, 2019 · The iron, brass, leather, and wood saber and scabbard belonged to Omar Saïdou Tall, an 19th-century military leader and founder of the short-lived Toucouleur empire, which encompassed parts of Guinea, Senegal, and Mali. The sword was seized from Tall’s son Ahmadou by the French in 1893 after they defeated him in battle in Mali.
Nov 18, 2019 · French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has returned a sabre belonging to 19th century Islamic scholar and leader, Omar Tall, to Senegal’s President Macky Sall, in Dakar.
Jan 15, 2019 · The sword belonged to Omar Saidou Tall, a prominent Muslim spiritual leader in the 1800s in what is now modern-day Senegal. His quest to conquer nearby territories put him in armed conflict...
Nov 18, 2019 · The sword belonged to Omar Saïdou Tall, a prominent 19th-century Muslim spiritual leader who fought French colonialists in the 1850s in a region of West Africa that is now Senegal. His...
