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Also Known As jihād • al-jihād • jehad

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Usman dan Fodio
Fulani leader
ʿUmar Tal
Tukulor leader
Aḥmad Grāñ
Aḥmad Grāñ
Somalian Muslim leader
Sayyid Maxamed Cabdulle Xasan
Somalian leader
Muḥammad Ismāʿīl Shahīd
Indian religious reformer
Shehu Ahmadu Lobbo
Fulani Muslim leader
Bahāʾ al-Dīn
Arab author