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Tippu Tip, 1837-1905

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Personal name headingTippu Tip, 1837-1905
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Variant(s)Ḥamad ibn Muḥammad, 1837-1905
Hamed bin Mohammed, 1837-1905
Hamed bin Muhammed el Murjebi, 1837-1905
Hamid bin Muḥammad bin Jumʻah bin Rajab bin Muḥammad bin Saʻīd al-Murjabi, 1837-1905
Ḥāmid ibn Muḥammad, called Tippoo Tib, d. 1905
Hamid, Muhammed bin, 1837-1905
Hemed bin Muhammad el Murjebi, 1837-1905
Mohammed, Hamed bin, 1837-1905
Muḥammad, Ḥāmid ibn, 1837-1905
Muhammed bin Hamid, 1837-1905
Murjabi, Hamid bin Muḥammad bin Jumʻah bin Rajab bin Muḥammad bin Saʻīd, 1837-1905
Murjebi, Hamed bin Muhammed el, 1837-1905
Murjībī, Ḥamad ibn Muḥammad, 1837-1905
Tīb, Tībū, 1837-1905
Tib, Tippoo, 1837-1905
Tib, Tippu, 1837-1905
Tībū Tīb, 1837-1905
Tip, Tippo, 1837-1905
Tip, Tippu, 1837-1905
Tippo Tip, 1837-1905
Tippoo Tib, 1837-1905
Tippu Tib, 1837-1905
Tippu Tip, -1905
Tippu Tip, d. 1905
Tipu Tipu, 1837-1905
حمد بن محمد بن جمعة بن رجب بن محمد بن سعيد المرجبي, 1837-1905
Associated countryZanzibar Tanzania Congo (Democratic Republic)
Birth date1837
Death date1905-06-14
Place of birthZanzibar
Profession or occupationMerchants Governors Slave traders Plantation owners
Special noteNon-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found inHis Maisha ya Hamed bin Muhammed el Murjebi, yaani Tippu Tip, kwa maneno yake mwenyewe, 1966: t.p. (Hamed bin Muhammed el Murjebi, Tippu Tip)
Renault, F. Tippo Tip, 1987.
CSmH files (usage: Hamed bin Mohammed, alias, Tippo Tib)
Mughāmir ʻUmānī fī adghāl Ifrīqiyā, 2005: t.p. (Ḥamad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jumʻah al-Murjībī, Tībū Tīb) p. 17, etc. (b. 1840?; d. 1905)
Historia kwa shule za msingi, 1983: title page (Tipu Tipu) preliminary page (Hamed bin Muhammed el Murjebi, Tipu Tipu, as photo portrait caption) page 4 (Tipu Tipu (Hemed bin Muhammad el Murjebi); b. 1830 in Zanzibar)
Encyclopaedia Britannica (online), July 15, 2016 (Tippu Tib, also called Muhammed bin Hamid; b. 1837; d. June 14, 1905 in Zanzibar, now in Tanzania; the most famous late 19th-century Arab trader in central and eastern Africa; active in ivory trade; by the late 1860s he established a loosely organized state in eastern and central Congo River basin; accompanied British explorer Henry Morton Stanley along the Congo River in 1876-77; in 1883 he allied with Sultan Barghash of Zanzibar, in attempt to extend Arab influence in the Congo region against Leopold of Belgium's International Association of the Congo; he remained in the Congo until 1886; in Feb. 1887 he signed an agreement making him governor of the district of the Falls, Congo Free State (now Congo [Kinshasa]); in Apr. 1890 he left the Falls for the last time and returned to Zanzibar)
Wikipedia, July 15, 2016 Tippu Tip, or Tippu Tib; 1837-June 14, 1905; real name Hamid bin Muḥammad bin Jumʻah bin Rajab bin Muḥammad bin Saʻīd al-Murjabi, Arabic حمد بن محمد بن جمعة بن رجب بن محمد بن سعيد المرجبي; Swahili-Zanzibari slave trader; known by people of the African Great Lakes as Tippu Tip after the sounds that his guns made; ivory trader, explorer, plantation owner and governor; he traded in slaves for Zanzibar's clove plantations)