Amadu's Jihad was a religious war fought from 1810 to 1818 in what is now the Mopti Region of Mali. 1810 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1818 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Mopti is the 5th region of Mali. ...

Seku Amadu (1775-1844), a Fulani Muslim leader in West Africa, overthrew the ruling Fulani dynasty of the Macina region of what is now Mali and created a new theocratic state with its capital at Hamdallahi. Amadu was probably influenced by the teachings of the Islamic reformer Usman dan Fodio and his jihad in neighboring Hausaland Seku Amadu (1773 - 1845) was the founder of the Peul Massina Empire in what is now the Mopti Region of Mali. ... 1775 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1844 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Categories: Africa-related stubs | Burkina Faso | Cameroon | Ethnic groups of Africa | Fulani Empire | Mali | Nigeria ... A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم) is a believer in or follower of Islam. ... West Africa is the region of western Africa generally considered to include these countries: Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Côte dIvoire (Ivory Coast) Equatorial Guinea Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Niger Nigeria Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) Senegal Sierra Leone Togo Chad, Mauritania, and... Macina may refer to: The Macina Empire, in present-day Mali Macina (swamp), in Mali See also: List of people by name: Mac, for people named Macina This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Shaihu Usman dan Fodio (also referred to as Shaikh Usman Ibn Fodio; alternative spelling, Shehu), 1754-1817 was a writer and Islamic reformer. ... Jihad (ǧihād جهاد) is an Islamic term, from the Arabic root ǧhd (to exert utmost effort, to strive, struggle), which connotes a wide range of meanings: anything from an inward spiritual struggle to attain perfect faith to a struggle a political or military struggle to further the Islamic cause. ... The Hausa are a people of northern Nigeria and south-eastern Niger. ...

Initially, Amadu established an independent Muslim community were he gave expression to his fundamentalist Islamic views and he preached in favor of a jihad of his own. Amadu's views brought him into conflict with his local, pagan Fulani chief, who called for help from his suzerain, the Bambara king of Segu. The result was a general uprising under Amadou that established the Massina Empire, a theocratic Muslim Fulani state throughout Macina and extending to both the ancient Muslim centers of Djenné and Tombouctou. Amadu's jihad was probably continuous from 1810 through 1818. However, some sources suggest two events, one in 1810 and another in 1818. One estimate suggests a total of 10,000 deaths resulting from this jihad. The rule of Amadou's family continued under his successors, Amadu Seku and Amadu Amadu, until the latter was captured and executed by al-Hajj 'Umar's Toucouleur army in 1862. Bambara, also known as Bamanankan, is a language spoken in Mali by as many six million people. ... Ségou or Segu is a city in Mali, lying northeast of Bamako on the River Niger, in the region of Ségou. ... The Massina Empire was a nineteenth-century Peul empire centered in the Mopti Region of present-day Mali. ... The location of Djenné within Mali Djenné (also Dienné or Jenne) is a city on the Bani River in southern Mali with a population of about 12,000 (in 1987). ... See also Timbuktu (novel) for the book by Paul Auster. ... El Hadj Umar Tall (1797 - 1864) was a conqueror and Toucouleur king who founded a brief empire encompassing much of what is now Guinea, Senegal, and Mali. ... Takrur was one of the minor Iron Age states of West Africa, which flourished roughly parallel to the Kingdom of Ghana. ... 1862 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...