- The Torodbe;
singular Torodo (also
called Turudiyya, Banu Toro, Takrur,
Toronkawa) were
Muslim Toucouleur clerics and
theocratic monarchs who
preached and...
- 1300-1400s, some 400–500
years before the
Jihad The Sheikh's
ancestors were
Toronkawa who
migrated from ****a
Tooro in the 1300s
under the
leadership of Musa...
-
separate identity. The
Toronkawa clan at
first recruited members from all
levels of Sūdānī society,
particularly the
poorer people.
Toronkawa clerics included...
- ****a Toro, in what is now Senegal, and are
cousins with the
Torodbe (
Toronkawa) from Sissilo, the
husband of Cippowo, a
sister of
Uthman Toroddo ancestor...
-
nickname comes from the
Arabic word Faqīh
meaning jurist. He
belonged to the
Toronkawa ('Torodbe' in Fulfulde) clan,
known for
their rich
tradition of Islamic...
-
strongly suggested that they were a proto-Fulani clan of the
Torodbe (
Toronkawa) stock. This clan
intermarried with the
Sanhaja Arabs from M****ufa in...
- Jobawa, Sullubawa, Danejawa, Yolawa, Yerimawa, Modibawa, Gyanawa, Zarawa,
Toronkawa, Mundubawa, and Dambazawa. Many Fula
chiefs had ****umed
various powerful...
