Sulayman Bal
Futa Toro
region in what is today Senegal.
In the 1760s and 1770s, Sulayman Bal founded one of the earliest
Brakna Moors
were repulsed after a long history of raids in Futa Toro, and non-Muslim states were invaded.
Sulayman Bal was succeeded by Abd al-Qadir who consolidated the Futa Toro state, created a military aristocracy, and became one of the first of many West African leaders to take the title almami. In 1796, his army was defeated during the battle of Bounghoy by the Cayor kingdom led by the Damel Amary Ngoné Ndella Fall.[1] Abd al-Qādir was killed in 1807, to be replaced by a less oligarchic council of clan leaders.
References
- S2CID 146699555. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
- Holger Weiss. Attempts to Establish an Islamic Economy: A Survey on Zakāt in some Nineteenth-Century Muslim States of the Bilād as-Sūdān. Paper presented at the SAL-workshop: "State and Everyday Life in Africa", Accra, November–December 2000.
- David Robinson. Chiefs and Clerics: Abdul Bokar Kan and Futa Toro, 1853–1891. Clarendon Press. (1975).
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