| LC control no. | n 50018892 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Tippu Tip, 1837-1905 |
| 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 country | Zanzibar Tanzania Congo (Democratic Republic) |
| Birth date | 1837 |
| Death date | 1905-06-14 |
| Place of birth | Zanzibar |
| Profession or occupation | Merchants Governors Slave traders Plantation owners |
| Special note | Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | His 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) |
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