Wikipedia's article on the Sokoto Caliphate, community-edited. Reliable for the jihad's start, 21 February 1804, when Sultan Yunfa of Gobir declared war on the Fulani cleric Usman dan Fodio, and for the campaign's course through 1808, taking Katsina and Daura, Kano in 1807 and Gobir itself in 1809, establishing an Islamic state that by the 1830s stretched from modern Burkina Faso to Cameroon across more than thirty emirates.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokoto_Caliphate
Source Typereference
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Reliability Tier3
Community-edited reference page, tier 3. Used for the settled 1804 to 1808 jihad dates, both given precisely in the article's own text. NotesUsed for the 1804 to 1808 jihad that founded the Sokoto Caliphate.
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This source names Burkina Faso directly: "by the 1830s stretched from modern Burkina Faso to Cameroon across more than thirty emirates."
This source names Cameroon directly: "stretched from modern Burkina Faso to Cameroon across more than thirty emirates."
This source names Uthman directly: "declared war on the Fulani cleric Usman dan Fodio, and for the campaign's course through 1808, taking Katsina and Daura, Kano in 1807 and Gobir itself in 1809, establishing an Islamic state that by..."
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