UMAR TAL
`UMAR TAL (c.1794-1864), more fully al-Hajj ‘Umar ibn Sa’id, Senegalese Islamic militant leader and thinker. Al-Hajj ‘Umar ibn Said deserves recognition as one of the towering figures of West African history in the latter part of the nineteenth century. It is to his efforts that we can ascribe the success of the Tijaniyah brotherhood which,
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