Abdul Kader (almami)

'Abdul Qādir Kan
Born1727–28 [1]
Pafa Warneu, Saloum
Died26 April 1806 (aged 78–79)[2]: 142 
Gouriki

Abdul Kader Kan (Arabic: عبد القادر; c. 1726 – 26 April 1806) was an 18th-century Islamic scholar and military leader, and the first Almaami of the Imamate of Futa Toro,[3] hailing from what is now Senegal.

  1. ^ David Robinson, Philip Curtin, and James Johnson, "A Tentative Chronology of Futa Toro from the Sixteenth through the Nineteenth Centuries", Cahiers d'Études Africaines, Vol. 12, Cahier 48 (1972), p. 578
  2. ^ Rudolph T. Ware III, ,The Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-4696-1431-1
  3. ^ Robinson, David (1973). "Abdul Qadir and Shaykh Umar: A Continuing Tradition of Islamic Leadership in Futa Toro". The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 6 (2): 286–303. doi:10.2307/216779. ISSN 0361-7882. JSTOR 216779.