Torodbe

  • Torodbe
  • تورودبي
Regions with significant populations
Senegambia
Religions
Islam
Scriptures
Quran
Languages
Fula language, Arabic

The Torodbe; singular Torodo[a] (also called Turudiyya, Banu Toro, Takrur, Toronkawa) were Muslim Toucouleur clerics and theocratic monarchs who preached and reigned in Futa Toro, a region located in the north of present-day Senegal, and other Fula communities in West Africa from at least the seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Drawn from all ethnicites and levels of society, the Torodbe aimed to 'purify' the Islam practiced in West Africa and establish Islamic states run with Islamic law. [1]


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  1. ^ Brooks, George E. (August 1985). "WESTERN AFRICA TO c1860 A.D. A PROVISIONAL HISTORICAL SCHEMA BASED ON CLIMATE PERIODS" (PDF). Indiana University African Studies Program: 209. Retrieved 30 May 2023.