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Tal, Umar, 1794?-1864

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Personal name headingTal, Umar, 1794?-1864
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Variant(s)Fūtī, ʻUmar ibn Saʻīd, 1794?-1864
Hājj ʻUmar ibn Saʻīd al-Fūtī, 1794?-1864
Omar, El Hadj, 1794?-1864
Omar Tal, du Fouta, 1794?-1864
Omar Tall, Hadj, 1794?-1864
Oumar, El Hadj, 1794?-1864
Saykou Oumar, 1794?-1864
Sayku Umaar, 1794?-1864
Seydou-Tall, Oumar, 1794?-1864
Taal, Umar, 1794?-1864
Taal, Uumar, 1794?-1864
Tal, Omar Seku, 1794?-1864
Ṭaʻl, ʻUmar ibn Saʻīd, 1794?-1864
Tal, Umar ibn Saʻid al-Futi, 1794?-1864
Tall, Omar, 1794?-1864
Tall, Omar Saidou, 1794?-1864
Tall, Oumar Al-Futi, 1794?-1864
Tall, Oumar Foutiyou, 1794?-1864
Tall, Oumar Seydou, 1794?-1864
Tall, Umar Saidou, 1794?-1864
Umaar, Sayku, 1794-1864
Umaar, Sayku, 1794?-1864
Umaar Taal, 1794?-1864
ʻUmar, al Ḥājī, 1794?-1864
ʻUmar al-Fûtî, Ḥâǧǧ, 1794?-1864
Umar Tal, 1794?-1864
Umaru Futa, 1794?-1864
Omar Foutyou, El-Hadj, 1794?-1864
Oumar, Cheikh, 1794?-1864
تال، عمر
طعل, عمر بن سعيد
فوتي، عمر بن سعيد
Associated countrySenegal Mali Guinea
Birth date1794?
1797
Death date1864-02-12
Place of deathBandiagara Caves (Mali)
Field of activityTukulor (African people)--History--19th century Umarian Jihad, 1852-1863 Tijānīyah Qādirīyah
Takrur Empire
Profession or occupationMuslim scholars Muslim religious leaders Sufis Tijānīyah members
Special noteMachine-derived non-Latin script reference project.
Non-Latin script references not evaluated.
Found inTijānī, M. al-H. Hadj Omar Tall, 1798-1864, c1983.
His Voilà ce qui est arrivé, 1983: t.p. (al-Ḥâǧǧ ʻUmar al-Fûtî)
LC data base 4/7/86 (usage: el-Hadji Omar; al-Hajj Omar Tal du Fouta; El Hadj Omar) manual auth cd. (al-Hājj ʻUmar ibn Saʻīd al-Fūtī, 1794?-1864)
Colvin, L.G. Hist. dict. Senegal, 1981 (Tal, al-Hajj Umar, ca. 1794-1864)
Watta, O. Rosary, mat, and molo, 1992: CIP t.p. (Omar Seku Tal) galley (Alhadj Umaru Futa)
NUC pre-1956 (hdg.: ʻUmar, al-Ḥājī, 1795 (ca.)-1864; usage: El Hadj Omar)
Bicentenaire de la naissance du cheikh El Hadj Oumar Al-Futi Tall, 1797-1998, 2001: t.p. (Oumar Al-Futi Tall)
Contes et récits des pays du fleuve, 2015: page 18 (l'empire Toucouleur d'El Hadj Oumar, 1848-1864; Oumar Seydou-Tall, le Fountanké [one from Fouta]) page 19 (El Hadj Omar; b. 1797, of a Toucouleur family in Halwar near Podor; went on pilgrimage in 1820, spent 13 years in the Mideast, became follower of the head of the Tidjaniya sect, Cheikh Mohamed Ghali; returned to Fouta-Djalon at age 40, 1838, with goal to create a Tijani Muslim empire) page 20 (defeated Malinke and Bambara, but not conclusively; died in a cave at Degimbéré where he had taken refuge)
Au-Senegal.com website, viewed Mar. 1, 2016 (El Hadj Omar Tall; El Hadj Omar; real name Omar Saidou Tall; b. between 1794 and 1797 at Alwar near Guédé, dept. of Podor; his ethnic group had adhered to the Qadiriyah brotherhood since 1776; learned Arabic; died in mysterious circumstances in caves of Bandiagara, Mali)
Wikipedia, Mar. 1, 2016 (El Hadj Umar Tall; al-Hajj Umar ibn Sa'id al-Futi Tal; Umar Saidou Tall; Arabic ʻUmar bin Saʻīd Ṭaʻl = عمر بن سعيد طعل ; b. in Futa Tooro; honorific El Hadj (al-Hajj) almost always precedes his name; last name sometimes spelled Taal; political leader, Muslim scholar, and Toucouleur military commander, founded a brief empire encompassing much of what is now Guinea, Senegal, and Mali; d. Feb. 12, 1864 in explosion of his gunpowder reserves)
Wikipedia, French version, Mar. 1, 2016 (Oumar Tall; Umar Foutiyou Tall, or Oumar Seydou Tall; Muslim sovereign, erudite Muslim, and eminent Sufi; founder of the Toucouleur empire)
De Malal Bah à Alfaa Moolo Baalnde, 2019: page 25 (Sayku Umaar; le marabout Sayku Umaar; Sayku) page 4 of cover (grand marabout haalpulaar, Ceerno [marabout] Sayku Umaar Taal)
La geste de Tidjâni, 2019: page 7 (El-Hadj Omar) page 9 (Saykou Oumar)
Les trois grandes figures de l'Islam en Afrique, 197-?: title page, etc. (El-Hadj Omar Foutyou; El-Hadj Oumar; founder of Tidianism; Cheikh Oumar; born in Aloar near Podor in 1797)
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